Tibi PuiuSo far, I’m really digging Beck’s new Danger Mouse produced album, “Modern Guilt”, already well passing the 8th or 9th listen (who’s keeping track, eh?). Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised when I checked my inbox today, to find an e-mail from Beck’s official, notifying me of his latest video, for the first single off Modern Guilt, “Gamma Ray.” When made a synopsis of the song, when we first talked about it, along with “Orphans,” another…
Jack White solves misunderstanding with home town: writes a poem!
A while back Jack White made some comments in the previous Rolling Stone issue, in which he called the Detroit music scene very “negative and suffocating.” This lead to a swarm of misunderstanding and misinterpretations among [tag]White Stripes[/tag] fans and Detroit citizens alike, especially considering Jack moved from Detroit to Nashville back in 2006. Thing is Jack really loves his home town and the people who live in it, it’s just the music scene that…
New Music Monday: 8 July
I haven’t completed the feature for the last 2 weeks, because both me and Andrei have been kept busy with some nasty exams, fact which could be clearly seen by the lack of activity on the blog. We’re both finished with them (we’ve passed, thank you!) and from now on we’ll get back to our normal schedule. Anyway, to start off the week we’ve got two great artists. First up is [tag]Beck[/tag] with his latest…
New Lil Wayne video: ‘A Milli’
[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag]’s “Carter III” is doing pretty well on the Billboard, with a few million copies sold aldready, a million of which sold in its first week! Now that’s something and if you want to know how the man’s keep up with all the hype, then the video for his latest single off of Carter III, “A Milli,” might shed some light. First up: Rapping on the street, after all such a busy life doesn’t…
Download: Wolf Parade – ‘Liberty City’
The Montreal based Wolf Parade has always been one of my favorite indie bands, blowing me away right from the start with their extraordinary debut Apologies To The Queen Mary from 2005. Now, just 3 years later, the band is back with their sophomore release, At Mount Zoomer, a more adventurous and exiting attempt then their previous effort. Both of Wolf Parade’s frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner took some time to pursue a few…
A guide to this summer’s upcoming releases by Pitchfork
Right at the end of 2007, we’ve made a small preview of the current year, in which we expressed our excitement for what we believe to be a very fruitful year for music. Everybody knows the best releases come in the summer time. That’s when all the big festivals and tours are held and that’s when almost all the great albums get released. Thoughtful as they are, our colleagues from Pitchfork took the time to…
Happy Independece Day! The 4th of July mixtape
Photo by GR58 Today is a special day for all Americans. Today marks the day the US conquered oppression and embraced liberty; let’s hope we can do it again… Anyway we’ve said it before, this is not a place for politics, such trivialities can’t be found here. But considering today’s a day like no other, we’ve decided to celebrate Independence Day as best as we can: through music. With this in mid we’ve devised a…
Should your favorite band call it quits sooner ?
Photo by flannelass I was going over a few of my favorite websites on the net, just earlier, when I cam across an interesting post down at the Guardian music blog, that really caught my attention and made me reflect a bit. The article is centered around the idea according to which bands should disband as soon as they’re successful. Ben Myers, the journalist who wrote the article, feels that there’s a certain point in…
Photos: new Slipknot masks
Listen up “maggots,” the Iowan metal heads of [tag]Slipknot[/tag] are making their last preparations, before the release of their much anticipated forth full studio album, “All Hope Is Gone,” scheduled to hit the record stores on August 26. The celebrate this forth installment and probably to better promote their upcoming new work, the band have also released footage of the new mask. Slipknot have always been famous for their massive cult fallowing, that like to…
Bowie covered by indie artists in latest compilation
After they’ve released a more or less successful [tag]Prince[/tag] cover compilation record, in the form of Controversy, a while ago, the fine folks from Rapster are back with yet another cover song compilation LP, this time featuring artists influenced by the great [tag]David Bowie[/tag]. Matthew Dear, Carl Craig, Kelley Polar, Au Revoir Simone, Joakim, and the Thing are just a few artists who cover the Thin White Duke on “Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered”. The…