That’s right ladies and gents, the (probably) most expected album of the year has been officially named. After many many controversies and other stuff I’ll barely mention here (they first said it will be released in February then delayed it for September, then Dave Grohl wrote them an open letter, and many other things) they finally set the name for their new album. Wat’s it called? Death Magnetic. When I first heard this, I had…
I saw this ‘band’ recently, Naturally 7 when they were opening for Michael Buble here in Australia, and I have to say, they are mind blowing!! Hailing from New York City, what they do is called Vocal Play, whereby they use only their voices to sound like instruments. A 7 man group, they have a lot of different kinds of instrument sounds, from the low end of the bass to the high wailing of an…
Goodness me, what a week! Finally it feels like summer has truly begun, once with this new wave on awesome new stuff. First up is [tag]Coldplay[/tag]’s long awaited follow-up to their critical and commercial hit X & Y, in the form of “Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends” (we’ve gotten used to the title by now, check out the stream here). The [tag]Goo Goo Dolls[/tag] are also back with yet another awesome…
So most of you probably have never heard of this artist, Bushwalla, but he’s got some of the maddest skills both in entertaining and performing. He juggles, breathes fire and balances his guitar on his chin. Having released his very first album, “Autodidactical, Freestyle, & Radical”, he’s finally filmed the video for his new song “In The Future”. Very very interesting indeed, so just thought I’d share this little musical secret. Enjoy! With special appearance…
For the last few days, I’ve been franticly spinning the new [tag]My Morning Jacket[/tag] record, “Evil Urges.” It’s really tight and very well put together, but above all it’s a lot different then anything they’ve put out. I don’t like to hear the same thing over and over again, and I’m really glad the band have decided to evolve in sounds. I was especially surprised by the new adopted direction, mixing both old school elements…
Photo courtesy of dave1968 We didn’t have a chance to write about this, but about a week ago Metallica previewed a mix of songs from their forthcoming new album, to a bunch of journalists in London. Apparently there was a misunderstanding, though, and the subsequent reviews of the material where quickly withdrawn from various websites, within minutes from their posting. Now, the band itself (the whole mix was put to the journalists disposal by their…
It seems the people behind [tag]U2[/tag] aren’t too fond of the Radiohead model of selling their latest album, In Rainbows. Specifically, U2’s manager Paul McGuinness confessed recently that he feels that Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want policy “backfired.” He also assured everybody that in no way U2’s upcoming album, that will probably see the light of day sometime in October, will be released in a similar fashion with In Rainbows. The manager’s main argument behind his statement was…
The gorgeous blonde has recently lost some fans due to what they call a shift to country music. But her response is the same, no matter how many times she is asked about this. The acclaimed singer-songwriter is trying to explain why even though the music on her seventh record, “Perfectly Clear,” is a departure from the smooth dance-rock of 2003’s “0304”. Basically what she said is “I haven’t gone country. I didn’t wake up…
It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything about the epic power/speed metallers from Dragonforce. Well, as it turns out, they’ve been working really hard to release their new album, “Ultra Beatdown”, on August 25 via Roadrunner Records. Band members also took the time to talk about this album. Guitarist Sam Totman says: “It’s not going to be majorly different. But hopefully the melodies will be nicer, the guitar solos will be better, the production…
Hip-hop’s back in full throttle this week, with two highlight releases that will probably be in the top 10 rap list of the year. These are none other then the new records from [tag]Lil Wayne[/tag], with “Carter III,” his sixth full length studio album and the final take in the Carter trilogy, and [tag]N.E.R.D.[/tag], respectively, with their latest effort “Seeing Sounds,” the follow-up to the critical darling “Fly or Die.” However, my personal favorite and…
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