UPDATE: September 14, 2011: According to her family, no illegal substances were found in Winehouse’s body after the toxicology report. At just 27 years of age, Amy Winehouse, the soulful singer/songwriter who brought you such hits as “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good”, was found dead this morning of a (not yet confirmed) drug overdose at her home in London. For a long while, Winehouse had noticeably been fighting an intense battle with hard…
Left to right: Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals), Emma Richardson (bass, vocals), and Matt Hayward (drums.).
Thirty-four studio albums released and 70 years in, Bob Dylan seems more like an extraterrestrial than a simple human being. If any of you have been following Bob Dylan around for a while in his past 50 years career, you’d probably know that the prolific songwriter has embarked on his Never Ending Tour in 1988 and never looked back since. Yes, the man meant it, and hasn’t slowed down from the 100 shows a year…
In a statement released last month Morrissey said, “The follow-up to Years of Refusal is ready and fluttering wildly against the bars. There is still no record label and the years shuffle like cards. My talents do not lie in DIY.” Everything shuffles, indeed, and the former Smiths frontman work has proven to have pass the test of time, which has always been a primordial criteria for selecting valuable art – what a subjective term….
Apparently, the seventeen tour dates completed in North America this spring weren’t enough for The Kills, seeing as the raw rock n’ roll duo from London just announced a second leg of the tour, which consists of nine dates and begins this August. The band, comprised of powerful (and daunting) vocalist Alison Mosshart and her striking guitarist Jamie Hince, has been touring in support of their latest and (according to many critics) greatest album to date, Blood Pressures. Because of…
A constant innovator, Bjork is pushing the lines between what’s conventional and not in the music business once with the release of her highly anticipated forthcoming x-th album, Biophilia. In the lines of what I scribbled earlier, the Icelandic songbird is planning to release the aforementioned release as a whole big iPad app. To be more exact, an app for each song, centralized by one core app. The apps will impress through interactivity. For example,…
Alright, Death Cab for Cutie fans. You’ve been waiting since 2008 for new material, but fear no more; the gang of four are back, and they bring with them a repertoire of gifts. You may have heard that their seventh album, Codes and Keys (which has been in-the-works since the middle of 2010) is due to hit both real and virtual shelves May 31st; however, it has also recently been confirmed that Ben Gibbard and his gang have announced a summer…
King of Limbs, released digitally on February 18th of this year and physically in late March, quenched the thirst of the Radiohead fans who had awaited a new work for so long; however, since the release of their latest album, which dropped an entire day before it was officially supposed to, Radiohead has neglected to make or announce any live appearances as a band …until now. Although no further performances have been announced (yet), the band is set…
Paste Magazine’s “Producer of the Decade” is at it again; but, what exactly is he up to this time? Danger Mouse, the stage name for versatile producer Brian Burton, has aided in bringing us many of our last decade’s favorite albums, from Gnarles Barkley’s St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple to the Black Keys’ Attack & Release and Brothers. He has also collaborated with countless other musicians in his producing career… So, what is it about Rome…
Daniel Pujol, frontman and rhythm guitarist for the Ramones-esque garage rock/punk band Pujol, has just announced the full line of dates for their 2011 tour! Pujol, who just recently released their latest singles “Black Rabbit/Too Safe” with Third Man Records and “Bonedaddy” with Jeffrey Drag Records, is set to not only tour the following dates but release a new full-length album sometime this year. Here are the dates that Pujol has announced: 5/11…
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