Damon Albarn and his Gorillaz, helped out by singer Daley, played a wonderful three song set for BBC’s Radio One, of which their new single “Doncamatic” and “On Melancholy Hill”. However the highlight of the show was the unexpected cover of The xx’s barren, yet touching “Crystalised”, which the band performed remarkably and even more stripped down than the original – just acoustic guitar, piano, and xylophone. Watch the live video of Gorillaz’s take on…
One of 2010’s best albums is without a doubt Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest, a record which excites senses and triggers soulful introspection. My favorite track off the LP is “Helicopter” and below you can see the visuals which transfigure the sound in the official video. It’s been out for two months now, but only after repeated viewing I’ve been able to slowly understand it, although I don’t want to pretend I’ve managed to grasp it, if…
As reported last week, Sam Bean and his alt-folk band Iron & Wine will be releasing a new album in early 2011. Captioned above is the official art work for Kiss Each Other Clean, a captivating illustration of what seems to be Beam (beard and outfit kinda gives him away) surrounded by water in a colorful line and shape world. The 10-track follow-up to the amazing Shepard’s Dog will be out on January 25th via…
After a series of intense reunion tour dates and a recently released platinum awarded compilation album, albeit released bundled with Guitar Hero cards, Soundgarden rocked the house last night for Coco with two great tracks off Telephantasm. The band first started with “Black Rain”, a previously unreleased studio leftover from the Badmotorfinger sessions, after which a seemingly rehabilitated Chris Cornell and co. jumped to “Hunder Down”, the band’s first single released in 1987. Check out…
Man I gotta tell you, sometimes I really love the world – though not that often. A while ago, we were telling you about former KISS member and overall goof Gene Simmons, who was saying something in the lines of: sue everybody, blablabla. OK, I’ll even drop a quote: “Make sure there are no incursions. Sue everybody. Be litigious. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.” Now guess what happens if…
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A brand new video for a fashionably old Streets song – beware! Beware of Mike Skinner and his incredible appetite that is, since, besides incredibly rapid fire close-ups, he can be seen devouring copious amounts of food, while sitting back enjoying an after-meal fattie. Although the video isn’t that interesting, I’m more than happy to post “Trust Me” anytime. It’s “dancing music to drink tea to” like Skinner very well went on to describe the…
As a result of relentlessness attacks by the dying music industry against P2P services, one of the biggest players in the sharing scene LimeWire has been forced to shut down its service for a minimum of 6 months as a result of a court order. The order was definitely settles this Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file…
This summer I managed to get ahold of some footage and samples of the alleged new Tron Legacy soundtrack by futuristic house DJs Daft Punk. I was sorry to find out a few days later that they were actually fakes. Today, it seems like we’ve been finally granted to hear the real deal once with the release of this latest Tron trailer, which besides revealing some incredibly awesome scenes from the upcoming 3D blockbuster, also…
Man, as an amateur guitar player myself, I gotta tell you – whenever I see the word ‘guitar’ in a title or something – I click it. I did the same thing with this video, and it sounds just like the average ambiental ‘feel the nature’ music that’s produced today; even better than most, actually. The point of this installation done by French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot was to use the rhythms of daily life to…
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