Alternative Spring Break Playlist

Forget about “Harlem Shake”. The Danish trio New Politics is turning heads with their new single “Harlem”. Spring break is here, for some collegiate Americans at least.  If you are a like me, your spring break does not start until next week.  Hopefully you will be on a beach somewhere or hitting the slopes with your friends.  Wherever you are, there is no reason that you should be victim of…

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What “All the Time” Means for The Strokes

Is This It cursed The Strokes. While it’s a nearly perfect record and one of the most influential albums of the aughts, The Strokes could never again live up to the standard set by Is This It, at least in the eyes of music critics. When the band released the excellent Room on Fire in 2003, they were criticized for repeating the style of their debut. The Strokes responded by releasing First Impressions of Earth…

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Smashing Pumpkins announce world tour

It’s a treat to go to any Smashing Pumpkins tour – this year, it will all kick off in Mexico’s Cumbre Tajin festival this month, and end in August, in Japan. The American group will be promoting their latest album, ‘Oceania’ – an album that while intricate and arguably “bigger” than anything the Pumpkins have done in many years (with electronic interludes, folk-rock breakdowns, songs that escalate from chill to all-out stomps), but, to be…

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David Bowie album released

The first album released by David Bowie in 10 years is definitely the most interesting thing happening in music right now. ‘The Next Day’ is Bowie’s first full-length release since 2003’s ‘Heathen’, and if you’re too afraid to get it because you’re afraid you’ll be disappointed – don’t, it’s worth every penny. David Bowie took everyone by surprise when, in January, out of nowhere, he released a new video – ‘Where are we now?’. Rumours…

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Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono enlist artists for “Don’t Frack My Mother’

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Sean Lennon, the only son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, has been feverishly protesting against fracking along with his mother, be it through TV ads, billboards, night clubs or on the street talking to people. Now, they’re speaking out against the health risks that fracking might possess by doing what they know best – music. With this in mind, they’ve enlisted countless celebrities from the world of music and the movie industry to aid…

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New and upcoming artist – The 1975

Origin: Manchester, England The 1975 were one of the best new bands of 2012, and are now certainly ones to watch for 2013! The boys create a blend of British indie and alternative rock, and do it very well. Being from Manchester, like many other bands, you’d already expect them to be quite similar to other acts, however this band are able to be distinguished and cut out from all the rest – genre is…

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New The Knife video: A Tooth for an Eye

Source. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual The Knife just released a video for one of the songs, A Tooth for an Eye, from their upcoming album: Shaking the Habitual. The album is going to be out in April this year, and they already released a video for a song from the same album, Full of Fire, last month. If the first video was kind of sick and freaky, I actually…

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Alice in Chains talk about their new album

Source The latest Alice in Chains album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, (I guess that the paleontologists are gonna love this album)  is set to be release in May this year. Source Talking to Rolling Stones, the band’s guitarist Jerry Cantrell said that: We made a unique record that’s completely different from anything we ever did…It encapsulates a period of time, like all records do. You see…

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Check out new Iggy and the Stooges song: Burn

Source. Iggy and the Stooges – Ready to Die Iggy and the Stooges are going to release a new album on April 30th this year: Ready to Die.  This should be a follow up of Iggy’s 1973’s Raw Power, or the Stooges’s 2007’s The Weirdness (you decide). Iggy recently commented: My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. It’s just a pig-headed fucking…

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