Since Belle & Sebastian released their last glorious album, “The Life Pursuit”, in 2006, the band has not only stopped releasing any new music, but they haven’t even hinted of plans of a new album whatsoever. When Stuart Murdoch, the band’s lead creative force behind the band, started working on his God Help the Girl project any plans for the band to make any new albums had been scrapped, until today that is when the…
Smilejerker’s back, and this week we’ve got something for all ages, that will both move and humor you, namely this fabulous cover of Queens’ Bohemian Rhapsody by an ‘all-star’ Muppets cast. We’ve seen some awesome tunes covered by the Muppets in the past, including Beatles, The Everly Brothers , Weezer, The Drifters and even death metal (unofficial), but this is one is truly magical. Enjoy, kids!
I’ve been a big fan of Jimmy Fallon since his SNL days, and him getting his own show this year, after he replaced Conan O’Brien as the host of the Late Night Show, did only to enforced my admiration. Last night, though, Jimmy delivered a moment of sheer and utter brilliance, when he strapped on a wig, a hat and a flannel and performed what can only be called the best Neil Young impression ever….
One of the most interesting projects of the year was N.A.S.A’s “The Spirit of Apollo”, a five year in the making, 18-track album, which featured three-dozen guest stars from mainstream rock and hip-hop stars to obscure, yet very talented high-profile street performers. “Spacious Thoughts”, one of the tracks off Apollo, is a collaboration between N.A.S.A. and two true giants of their own respective scenes, Tom Waits and Kool Keith. Impressive names to go with a…
Although Beach House’s new record, “Teen Dream”, is slated for a January 25th official release, last week the record leaked all over the web, and guys let me tell you it’s simply brilliant. It’s so deeply warm and sounds so very sincere, that it’s impossible to resist the record’s invitation to roll back and go to a place far, far away from it all. I swear the Baltimore duo is getting better and better with…
A story of departed buddies and nonreciprocal farewells make up the music video for Headlights’ reminiscent “Love Song for Buddy”, which premiered today on The Music Slut. The video was Illustrated by Scott Marvel and edited by Matthew Hane. Love Song for Buddy is off the band’s recently released album Wildfire (ZME rating 9/10) out now on Poly Vinyl Records. On a similar note, check out our interview with Brett from the band that we…
It took them a while, seven years to be more exact, but the trip-hop pioneering duo have finally come through and recently announced the follow-up to the somewhat disappointing 2003 “100th Window.” Massive Attack’s new album is titled “Heligoland” (named after the german Archipelago of Heligoland), and features guest vocals by Damon Albarn, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Martina Topley-Bird, Hope Sandoval, and Horace Andy. The tracklist is only ten songs…
I know this is a bit late, considering it’s been almost three months since the Reading and Leeds festivals took place, but this high quality footage of Them Crooked Vultures playing “Elephants” live is just too good not to share. Homme is ripping it all the way delivering perfectly balanced guitar work, while also singing, John Paul Jones proves he lives up to the legend tied to his name keeping the bass line afloat with…
Although the Portland six piece, Loch Lomond, have been at it making marvelous music since 2003 now, it wasn’t until last year that I finally caught up with them and their incredible sound – stories of love, ups and downs, reminiscence and some other of life’s leitmotifs told through music. If I were to describe them, I’d go for a soundtrack of life of almost perfect orchestration, filled with a variety of instruments (clarinets, percussion,…
As previously reported, yesterday night American Dad was all about Louisville’s finest, My Morning Jacket. I didn’t get to see the full episode yet, but from the couple of teasers and short rips on youtube it looks damn hilarious. A lot more humorous than one would expect anyway, even though they had plenty of material to go work with. Bellow you can find a few YouTube clips of scenes from the last night’s American Dad…
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