Haha, you gotta give it to those Canadians, they really know how to crash a party. During Oasis’ set on last night’s Toronto Virgin Festival, right in the middle of “Morning Glory,” a dude from the crowd came from out of the nowhere and put a good shuv on Noel Gallagher, causing him to fell off the stage. The band took some good 10 minutes to recover and then returned to complete their set. In…
At last Sunday’s Disney VMA’s Kanye West premiered a new song, performing the new drumline-backed Love Lockdown (stereogum). Now, apparently Kanye’s not only rolling out new songs, but also a new album. No official word has been released by either Kanye or his publicist, but retail sites like Amazon and Target are listing LP4 under the title 808’s & Heartbreak with a release date of 12/16, so this seems as real as it can be….
Boy, oh boy. Folks, there’s a new Quantum Solace trailer on the horizon and let me tell you that from these short, but intense, 2 minutes this is gonna be a one heck of a ride. I mean the franchize has really gonne to a whole different level once Craig joined in as Bond. He definitely adds a lot of depth and feel into the character; definitely the best Bond ever. Btw for those of…
Muhaha, finally the day has come! The day the new Metallica album, going by the name “Death Magnetic”, has finally surfaced, after never ending anticipation and, well, posts from our behalf. Still haven’t gone around to download grab a copy of the album, but from the first two singles already publicly released, Death Magnetic could end up pretty decent; I mean, definitely better then St. Anger, for Christ’s sake! Austin’s own Okkervil River are also…
There’s been a lot of talk around Keane’s upcoming third album, “Perfect Symmetry,” especially because, allegedly, the band has gone throw a change of direction from multiple points of view. “Love Is The End” is one of the 11 tracks that can be found on the new LP, and, from what I can tell, sounds the same as any other Keane song. I mean, I’ve only listened to only two songs from the new album,…
Coldplay have been really busy this year, after recording for a few good months in Spain’s Catalunia what would be their latest record “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” and then going out on a huge world tour to support it. However, it seems the grueling recording sessions, with producer Brian Eno, resulted in a lot of excess material; enough even for two albums! Anyway, Chris Martin just announced, while talking on…
When we unveiled Metallica’s first single off the new album, “The Day That Never Comes,” a few days ago the song was met with mixt feelings both by me and you, the readers of ZME. A part of me feels the song is quite good with some awesome pre-black album metal hooks, but the other part feels like this is just another black album re-hash with the same old riffs over and over again. Alas,…
I’ve always been somewhat of a fan of Mike Skinner aka The Streets, especially after his gorgeous sophomore album, “A Grand Don’t Come For Free,” got out a few years ago. His distinctive, sincere lyrics and well put samples (btw, Mike said on his Myspace blog a while back that he’ll soon abandon sampling on stage and will use only live musicians. Props for that, mate!), propelled him to instant success on the British hip-hop…
A few months ago Dave Grohl wrote an open letter to metal gods Metallica, urging them not to ‘release it until it kicks ass!’ Now, with only a few weeks before Death Magnetic hits the shelves, things are getting really tense and Metallica wants to make everybody proud, even the Foo Fighters. So, with this in mind joining Metallica on September 4th for a live Death Magnetic listening party, from the Metallica HQ, will be…
I’m really late with this, but I’ve been away in the Carpathian mountains this weekend for some serious hiking and had no chance to see it, let alone post it. Anyway, last Thursday Radiohead played its last gig off their ginormous In Rainbows tour in Santa Barbara, CA. The band ended the tour with an epic finale, after subsequently Liars gave me an awesome performance, as well. Thom Yorke and co. played an astonishing 25…
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