Today, Bon Iver will kick off his 2008 tour in South Carolina, a tour that’s set to span across three months and 2 parts. First, a US tour through out the whole month of August, then a European tour that will see Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) perform in such places like Dublin, Paris, London, Oslo, Copenhagen and many other beautiful cities. Tour dates and two awesome MP3s right after the jump.
Today is a sad day for Wolfmother fans around the world. A few hours ago the Aussie three piece band just announced on their myspace blog, that Chris Ross (bass/keyboard) and Myles Heskett (drums) have departed Wolfmother, leaving guitarist/frontman Andrew Stockdale for the lonely wolf. Here’s how the post went on. Grammy Award winning rock band Wolfmother has announced the resignation of bass/keyboard player Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett effective immediately. Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale…
Artist name: Beck Album name: Modern Guilt Label: Interscope/XL Recordings Genre: Alternative Rock Release date: July 8, 2008 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: www.beck.com Oh, my! It’s just incredible how Beck Hansen has changed, evolving (or regressing when he’s going old school loco) in sound, as each record gets out. And here he is, at his 10th studio album, Modern Guilt, an album detailing an experience, an album that tackles a lot of Beck’s inner, unresolved issues…
Monday, August 4th. A day that will forever remain in my heart, and that of over 22,000 people gathered in the Cotroceni Stadium of Bucharest to hear icons Iron Maiden play. What a show, what a band, what a night… Let’s start from the beginning, though. I embarked with Andrei on a 2 hour train ride towards Bucharest, right in the morning, with the tickets in our pockets, votka and cola on the right and…
Here’s something I bet most of you would guess. Apparently a small company back in sunny LA, called Pack Central, has made an anul multi-billion business out of selling music to prison inmates all over the US. Faced with such diminishing record sales in the whole world, how could this success be explained? Simple. Prisoners don’t have iTunes, and they most certainly don’t have an iPod. So the only solution available is listening to music…
Burial is quite possibly the most enigmatic artist in the last few years, releasing two highly well regarded albums, in almost complete anonymity. He’s a totally focused individual, who cares about nothing but his music; his own person comes in second place. Add that to his London underground dubstep music, and you’ve got a really shrouded, but very intriguing persona on your hands. Now, In a recent blog post on his MySpace page today (August…
The summer is the most fruitous period for music of the year, but then there’s that mid-season interval between smashing LPs where things get a bit slow and we get a chance to cool off a bit. Consider this week one of these summer breaks, with more modest releases, but interesting enough to keep your blood flowing so to speak. Anyway, leading the platoon of new releases this week is, in my opinion at least,…
Ah, the kings are back. No, not Elvis impersonators (the ’80s are long gone, thank God!), but fellow Tennesse southern rockers [tag]Kings of Leon[/tag], with a new album eaching to see the light of day, and a new single to match it too. “Crawl” is the name of the first song released by KoL (as a free MP3 actually, on their website) off the upcoming album, Only by the Night, built in the manner of…
Oh, people never leave these poor people alone, do they? First there was that really awesome cruel emo witch-hunt back in Mexico, then there was that all press mambo jambo going on with an English teenage emo who killed herself, now to top things off the State Duma is thinking about passing a law to ban the emo current all together in Mother Russia. According to NME a legislation is already currently being formulated in…
Yesterday brought some sad news, folks. Our favorite post punkers, the Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet just announced through a press release on their MySpace blog, that the band will officially disband soon. “To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going to be our last as a band. We thank you for all your love and support these past few…
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