Tibi PuiuAs expected [tag]Morrissey[/tag]’s upcoming record, his latest best of compilation titled Greatest Hits, got leaked a few weeks before its scheduled release of February 11. A reader tipped us that “How People Grow Up,” one of the two never released songs from the compilation, is up on the net. It’s a song made in Moz’s familiar style and fashion, with simple guitar riffs and a epic intro, topped by his unmistakable vocals. Thanks Matt ;)…
New The Polyphonic Spree video: ‘We Crawl’
Tim DeLaughter and his 20 something followers, that form the eccentric indie rock orchestra of [tag]The Polyphonic Spree[/tag], just released the video for their second single “We Crawl,” from last year’s The Fragile Army. What makes the video special is that instead of shooting a conventional video, each of the 23 members were handed a camera and asked to shoot whatever they feel like. Thus hundread of hours of footage was mailed to indie director…
The Horrors documentary screening at the Sundace Festival
Breakout British group [tag]The Horrors[/tag] and director Marvin Scott Jarrett (Nylon Magazine) are set to attend the 2008 Sundance Film Festival where the documentary film “Counting in Fives,” centered around the band, will be unveiled. The “rockumentary” follows the group through the streets of London and the US, in the studio writing their second record, and throughout concerts in the UK and the US, ultimately exploring how these dynamic personalities came to form The Horrors….
New Music Monday: January 14
Things are really shaping up this week, with some awesome new releases, especially from the rock and indie scene. The clear highlight of the week is [tag]Ringo Starr[/tag], one of the fab four, with his whooping 14th solo album, called “Liverpool 8”. We haven’t had the honor of sampling the record yet, but from what I’ve been reading and hearing, it should be a album that takes Ringo back to his roots, after all Liverpool…
Zombie and Ozzy team up again
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A while ago we wrote an article about a strange competition between Ozzy Osborne and Rob Zombie. We enjoyed seeing your opinions and if you haven’t told us who your favorite is than please do. But it appears that in fact things are going very well between the two. Rob Zombie puts movies on hold as he brings his musical career back from the dead to tour with Ozzy Osborne again. Despite being 16 years…
Ringo Starr headlines Liverpool bash….with a little help from his friends
The ex-Beatle [tag]Ringo Starr[/tag] returned home Friday to kick-start Liverpool’s year in the spotlight as a European “Capital of Culture.” It must be a weird feel for him to go back to the city which he started from. After all we all know what Liverpool meant in the history of music;Liverpool gave us The Beatles. Starr joined the Eurythmics front man Dave Stewart in headlining a huge outdoor concert, featuring around 600 local musicians, aerial…
David Bowie honored by artists on cruise ship
The Atlantic was a rocking it out last week, when a all star jam band, got together and decided to pay homage to the great [tag]David Bowie[/tag], who through four decades of music, provided a constant influence for young, emerging bands. As the title suggests all was staged on a cruise ship, where the group operated under the moniker ‘Oh, You Pretty Things,’ led by Ron Johnson and featuring the relatively reclusive Jon Fishman (Phish),…
Morcheeba ‘Dive Deep’ into the new year
The trip-hop UK duo, of [tag]Morcheeba[/tag], are just a few weeks away from their highly anticipated new album, titled “Dive Deep,” release. With over 6 million albums, several tours behind their back and some of the most moving and instantly recognizable tunes throughout the nineties, Paul and Ross Godfrey are confident they’ve made a record that’s set to propell them back into the spotlight. Actually the Godfrey brothers consider Dive Deep as a “emotional blueprint”…
Sheryl Crow protests war on upcoming LP
We talked a bit about [tag]Sheryl Crow[/tag]’s forthcoming new record called “Detours”, in a previous post, but now we’re back with some details. For instance, after resolving, her misunderstandings with long time friend and collaborator, Bill Bottrell, the both in a burst of creativity, recorded twenty-four songs in forty days in the basement studio of Crow’s Nashville-area home. Of these, only fourteen made the cut, on what’s considered Crow’s most personal album yet, fact she…
Indie stars featured on ‘environmental’ compilation
Seems like a lot of artists have recently endevoured into ‘green’ activities and charities, don’t really know what sparked this sudden interest; you’d think its an election year. Anyway, The Green Owl Comp: A Benefit for the Energy Action Coalition is a a two-CD/one-DVD collection, packed with rare, live and remixed songs from some of the world’s finest indie artists. All the earnings from the compilation’s sales, will be donated to the Energy Action Coaltion…