At the beginning of last year’s summer I showed myself skeptic with respect to a movie solely based on facebook and its founders, but showed a lot of interest in its soundtrack penned by Reznor and Atticus Ross. In the meantime, I saw the Social Network, I’ve sampled the soundtrack and I have to admit they’re both up par. Not that it holds any relevance, but the critics are also all over the movie, gaining…
At the beginning of the year Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters announced out of a sudden that they’ve finished recording the band’s seventh studio full length, leaving Foo fans and reminiscing grunge fanatics incredibly anxious. Not much is known about it, except from what Grohl already told us, namely that old Nirvana buddy Krist Novoselic plays bass somewhere on the record and that it’s the “heaviest [Foo Fighters] work to date.” The first single…
Early next year, the ever prolific Drive-by Truckers are set to release their ninth studio album “Go-Go Boots”, a tracklist from the same recording session which also boomed their previous critically hailed studio effort, “The Big To Do”. Below you can download the first single from the new record, titled Used to Be A Cop, a whiskey ripped brawler very reminiscent of the band’s older material. You can download it for free below, just for…
The new Daft Punk soundtrack for one of the most anticipated theatrical release of 2010, Tron: Legacy, is slated for tomorrow, and this latest hype builder of a music video for Derezzed, which premiered just earlier today, does nothing but amplify the sentiment. Nothing too much to say about the video, other that it’s quite awesome – the duo enter the film’s legendary Flynn’s Arcade setting where they get sucked into Tron’s marvelous video game…
Last night Conan’s eccentric show, which featured the host wearing ladies’ jeggings and the three Kardashian sisters on the same couch, which is three too many, was topped by a sharp performance of Deerhunter’s “Helicopter” off the band’s latest full length effort, the recently released “Halcyon Digest”. This was Deerhunter’s first national TV appearance and the band performed well on par. Check out Helicopter live on the video player below. Watch the ghostly official video…
Not with a voice like that it won’t! One of Domino Record’s latest signees is London’s Anna Calvi, a rising talent from the borrows with a voice of an angel and fingers as if molded on the guitar. Where she shines however is on the stage, as some who’ve seen her live with Grinderman this fall can confirm – a stage overflowed with a cascade of raw emotions – quite peculiar considering Calvi’s a very…
Fresh after releasing a most impressive new album with his Grinderman project and whilst still in full tour, Nick Cave seems relentless and inexhaustible after recently stating that he’ll be releasing a new album with the Bad Seeds next year, the band’s fifteenth and the first after the 2008 “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”, #3 on our end of the year list. Fans shouldn’t be too eager as to the remark however, since Cave needs to write…
Damon Albarn and his Gorillaz, helped out by singer Daley, played a wonderful three song set for BBC’s Radio One, of which their new single “Doncamatic” and “On Melancholy Hill”. However the highlight of the show was the unexpected cover of The xx’s barren, yet touching “Crystalised”, which the band performed remarkably and even more stripped down than the original – just acoustic guitar, piano, and xylophone. Watch the live video of Gorillaz’s take on…
One of 2010’s best albums is without a doubt Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest, a record which excites senses and triggers soulful introspection. My favorite track off the LP is “Helicopter” and below you can see the visuals which transfigure the sound in the official video. It’s been out for two months now, but only after repeated viewing I’ve been able to slowly understand it, although I don’t want to pretend I’ve managed to grasp it, if…
As reported last week, Sam Bean and his alt-folk band Iron & Wine will be releasing a new album in early 2011. Captioned above is the official art work for Kiss Each Other Clean, a captivating illustration of what seems to be Beam (beard and outfit kinda gives him away) surrounded by water in a colorful line and shape world. The 10-track follow-up to the amazing Shepard’s Dog will be out on January 25th via…
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