Tibi PuiuFresh after a great live performance, alongside Daft Punk, and with four awards under his belt, at this year’s Grammy Awards, you’d expect [tag]Kanye West[/tag] would slow down a bit. Instead he released a new video for “Flashing Lights,” his latest single comprised of 10bpm warming kickdrums and staccato synthesizers, that hit you with a wall of beats. The video, however, kinda lacks sadly, featuring a well “equipped” black lady, stripping down to her langeree,…
Scarlett Johansson’s cover album gets a tracklist
Yesterday night at New Yorke’s Joe’s Pub, the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson aka the sexiest woman alive unveiled her debut album, titled “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” comprised of [tag]Tom Waits[/tag] covers. Ten Tom Waits covers to be exact and one original Scarlett Johansson track, called “Song for Jo,” to be fair. As previously reported the album was produced by David Sitek, of TV On The Radio, and includes some guest appearances from the Yeah Yeah…
New R.E.M. video: ‘Supernatural Superserious’
[tag]R.E.M.[/tag] fans everywhere rejoice, for your favorite three piece band just released the video for Supernatural Superserious, the first single from the highly anticipated “Accelerate”. According to Michael Stipe, frontman, the single is a “geek anthem” about “terrifying, humiliating things that happened to us in our teenage years that follow us through life”, but the video doesn’t suggest that in any way. It just features scenes of the band playing live, most probably in a…
Lenny Kravitz: `It Is Time for a Love Revolution’
Andrei Mihai
Artist name: Lenny Kravitz Album name: It Is Time for a Love Revolution Label: Virgin Records Us Gender: Soul rock Release date: February 5, 2008 ZMErating: 8 and 1/2 Website: www.lennykravitz.com Well the first thing I thought about when I heard about the album was that he’s still single, so what kind of revolution is he talking about?(bad joke, I know). Anyway, this album was intended to be a classic, but the thing is that…
Linkin Park to go on green tour
The boys from California are thinking about global warming as they get ready to start their North American tour. Through their own non-profit organization, Music For Relief, they are doing efforts to help reduce the carbon emissions and bring attention to environmental concerns as they go from place to place.They are giving away $1 from each ticket sold to Music For Relief for a tree-planting program, as well as promoting things such as recycling, utilizing…
Robert Plant’s first impressions on the O2 gig
After each of the surviving members, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page, each made a statement about the, now legendary, O2 reunion gig, it’s now time for the [tag]Led Zeppelin[/tag] frontman to give his take on the performance and the band in general. “Golden God” is the title of a recently published interview, in Esquire Magazine, in which Plant reveals all sorts of details about the show, the morning after the gig (December 11). “It…
Radiohead with new North American dates
Great news gringos, earlier this week sources from within [tag]Radiohead[/tag] itself, have confirmed a number of US tour dates, at the beginning of May. As earlier reported, Radiohead’s North American tour will be performed in two shifts, one before their eagerly awaited European tour and the other after. The tour, part of Live Nation, will promote environmental protection and other eco related activities. The first city to kick off the venture is West Palm Beach,…
First Ozzfest rumours
In case you have no idea whatsoever what Ozzfest is, here’s a quick reminder for you (although you don’t deserve it! how can you not know what Ozzfest is ?!). Ozzfest is an annual tour of the United States (and in some years, Europe) featuring performances by some of the greatest singers out there. We’re talking about metal and hardcore stuff here; hard rock at its best!So, just as with 2007, a shortened tour is…
Rihanna to join Kanye West on tour
Multiple Grammy-winning and current hip-hop kingpin Kanye West is bringing out the big guns for this tour, by inviting a whole bunch of great singers. This comes after West captured four rap Grammy Awards, but lost other four in categories he had been nominated. As a matter of fact, he lost the rap collaboration award to Barbadian bombshell, Rihanna. But they are going together on a tour, along with N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco. Fiasco is…
R.E.M. add tour dates and reveal Accelerate special edition details
A lot of hype’s been revolving around the Athenian trio of late and with good reasons too, after all a new [tag]R.E.M.[/tag] album is always a good motive to celebrate, especially when their previous record was a total slump. Seems like I find reasons to post about R.E.M. week after week (just barely got over my Radiohead thing), this time it’s about their upcoming tour, alongside the fine lads from The National and Modest Mouse….