Finally, the trip hop pioneers of Portishead are back with their long awaited third album, suggestively titled “Third”, the band’s first record in 10 years! Then there’s “Rising Down,” the latest, highly anticipated studio effort from behalf of The Roots. Possibly this week’s highlight, however, is “Hard Candy,” the latest album from “the queen of pop,” Madonna. Another highly interesting release is Foxboro Hot Tubs’ debut album “Stop Drop And Roll;” if you didn’t yet…
Elika is a Brooklyn based indie duo, that has caught my eye recently, thanks to their beautiful blend of eclectic music. I’m not even quite sure how to describe them, but if I were to label them somehow I’d say they’re somewhere between ’80s glam pop and modern day underground electronica. The two, Evagelia Maravelias (vocals, keyboards, drums) and Brian Wenckebach (guitar, keyboards, programming), hold a really powerful musical chemistry together, that can be sense…
Yesterday night Trent released a new single over the airwaves and interwebs, titled “Discipline.” This comes just barely a month after his NIN released their most recent LP, the instrumental Ghosts. I’m a bit confused by Trent’s new strategy of releasing mass music, seeing how the band’s members are free agents, free from any label restrictions, this shouldn’t be a problem, but too much can really be too much. This can most obviously be seen…
A bit late on Earth Day, Brits Radiohead made a remote live performance from their recording studio in London, yesterday night, for Conan O’Brien’s Late Night Show in NY. The band played a masterful live take of “House of Cards” off In Rainbows and once again endorsed green activities. Oh and Thom called G. Bush a twat on national TV. As a side note the band made their TV network national debut on the Late…
AC/DC are the kind of band that’s so great you can never get enough of them. Actually they’re not a kind of band, they’re their own kind of band! So good news for all of you who love their fantastic music: they’ve finished recording and are currently mixing the effort for a late 2008 release. Brian Johnson released this piece of information Tuesday, April 22. Johnson has apparently left the studio in Vancouver, British Columbia,…
Oh boy, here we go again. I must have heard this 10 times at least, every time from a reliable source or something… This album is getting more and more like UFOs and the moon landing in 1969 – every time you hear about it it sounds less and less true. Especially since their guitarist left to rejoin NIN (no, not Slash…), and the rumors that this album is actually going to be bluegrass ….
A few days ago, on the 19th of April, people all over the world celebrated Record Store Day. Hey, people’ve made up more peculiar holidays then this one, so why not? Anyway on the 19th, Metallica, the “metal dinosaurs,” as James Hetfield referred to the group, made a brief appearance at Rasputins, an independent music outlet store on the West Coast. Here the band made a few photos, signed some autographs and most importantly supported…
2007 was the year of reunions, but 2008 doesn’t fall too much behind neither, with more and more previously iconic acts getting back together. One of these acts is also the shoegazing pioneers My Bloody Valentine, a true sensation of the late ’80s. Back in November, frontman Kevin Shields, announced the band’s reforming and moreover fueled rumors that a new LP is in the making. Soon after fans were ecstatic to find out the band…
A while backed we listed the dates for Plants And Animals’ brief tour, in support of their debut full length album, Parc Avenue. Now, the fun continues as the Canadian indie rockers have added a string of new tour dates, including West Coast venues. This the first time the band will play on the West Coast. Tour dates after the jump.
Constantines are back in full force, after subsequently releasing a new record a few weeks ago in their northern homelands, in the form of Kensington Heights. “Hard Feelings” is the record’s first single, a hard stumped rocker, in all the power of the word. On the actual video is really cool, being a mixture of Sin City-like noir cinematography and Kaiser Chief’s cityscape Ruby. Kensigton Heights is out now in Canada and 4/29 in the…
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