Man. That headline pun is so good, it’s like Mega-Butter. Mmmmm. Yes, the news is this news: the always-reliable Drive-By Truckers have gone and made a video – but no! Wait! – TWO videos for the chunky riff-o-rama of “This Fucking Job”. But rather than documenting the tawdry and lewd world of the “professional night-time escort” business – as the song title would misleadingly suggest – it instead shows us a man losing his job…
Band of Horses’ highly anticipated latest effort, “Infinite Arms” (what a brilliant cover art. don’t you think?), is finally out this week, much to the delight of millions of indie peeps in the world. We’ve posted the album stream last week, so let’s hear some thoughts regarding it. I, for one, believe it’s their best yet. Hold your band of horses for a second though, since this week also marks the release of LCD Soundsystem’s…
Ronnie James Dio died on 16 May, 2010. I was in a pub, drinking a beer when somebody came in and gave the news. Half of the pub practically dropped their drinks; and jaws. It’s one of those things that, when you think about it, is sort of logical but… it just seems wrong. Anyway, I’m not gonna go into exaggerating stuff and start melodrama. Dio was a king of rock, and he will be…
Yet another example of why everyone outside of the RIAA hates the RIAA has come to light. It seems that our favorite Association has found a new way to make back the money its owed from illegal downloading. Instead of suing downloaders, the RIAA has decided to go after the downloading clients, specifically LimeWire. …And the RIAA won. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, for the Southern District of New York, on Tuesday granted summary judgment…
Jarvis Cocker, Pulp alumnus, eccentric genius, and the first man to successfully clone himself (evidence), is still keeping busy. When he’s not winning awards for his BBC Radio 4 series, he’s sifting through a selection of “found sounds” collected by The National Trust (laudable British conservationists) and arranging them into an ambient album he BBC-quotingly describes as “a holiday for the ears”. If you enjoy hearing music boxes, old doors creaking, Steve Vai wailing and…
Since I’m here, and not really doing anything else of import (tonight’s checklist in chronological order: have a bit of a sit down; listen to the Ray Foley Show Podcast (while sitting); do nothing else of import), I might as well inform you of this thing: Band of Horses’ new album Infinite Arms (which is released into the great wide open next week) can be streamed in its entirety using this “gidget”: I haven’t listened…
Everyone still likes Tom Petty, correct? His Mudcrutch CD, as much as it was really just a Heartbreakers CD with a slightly different haircut and a trucker’s hat on, was quite excellent, and he does have the most hirsute of faces. Shaggy beards are always rock n’ roll (except, naturally enough, when it’s a rabid tramp whose face is housing the beard, and that face is currently knawing at your knees. But since, as far…
News for our several States-side chums today. Desert rock propagators with potential, Sweethead, are releasing their unimaginatively eponymous debut album on your side of the Atlantic today. Sweethead, of course, are the pet project of dapper sometimes-Queen of the Stone Age Troy Van Leeuwen, who beefs up his back end (oo-er) with the dab hands of Mark Lanegan Band alumni Norm Block and Eddie Nappi, and also unleashes the vixenly stlyings of singer Serrina Sims…
The National’s “High Violet”, one of the most anticipated releases of the year, is finally upon us once with its official drop this week. I’ve been streaming the album for the past two weeks now, and I can firmly say it’s definitely up to the hype. Big up! After a series of rather disappointing past releases, UNKLE is also moving out a new record, the band’s fifth actually, in the form of “Where Did The…
I really hope Niamh doesn’t kill me for that title. But yes, I’ve made no bones about my unfettered enthusiasm for Ham Sandwich – I’ve previously told you how heartswellingly splendid they are on precisely four thousand different occasions. But now there are four thousand and one occasions, because I’m about to do it again. The reason for that is this: they’re building up to the May 14th release of their new single “The Naturist”…
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