Tibi PuiuNYC math rockers Battles released a formidable debut full length album in the form of Mirrored, at the start of this year, a record full of experimental synths, calculated,robot like percussions and guitar chops and beats that would cause shame even to the best MC. It also featured vocals for the first time, as in their previous EPs Battles song were only instrumental, if you can call Tyondai Braxton’s munchkins-like vocals singing. “Tonto”, the second…
White Stripes cancel US tour due to health issues
Yesterday morning it was announced that sadly [tag]White Stripes[/tag] weren’t gonna be able to perform at this weekends 15-16 September Austin City Limits Festival due to unpublicized ‘health issues’ affecting Meg White. Guess all that touring had to leave some marks. A few hours later a press statement was released on whitestripes.com, clearing what the so called ‘health issue’ was and revealing even more sad news for fans. Read on and you’ll know what I’m…
50 Cent to turn 50 Pennies ?
Canadian quartet Hot Hot Heat released their long awaited fifth record Happiness Ltd. today, but unfortunately picked the wrong day to do it, as they’ll get little to no attention compared to the highly publicized clash between [tag]50 Cent[/tag] and [tag]Kanye West[/tag]. HHH frontman Steve Bays told Spinner later this day, that he doens’t really think he’ll outsale any of the hip-hop artists (really?), but said he would definitely want to join the victor at…
Animal Collective: ‘Strawberry Jam’
Artist name: Animal Collective Album name: Strawberry Jam Label: Domino Records Gender: Experimental/Indie Rock Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.paw-tracks.com/ Anyone who at least gave a spin to a [tag]Animal Collective[/tag] album should know that their sound is far from commercial, extremely selective and most of the time plain old inaccessible. They’ve been regarded by most music savvy men as a bastion of quality indie music, alongside such acts as [tag]Arcade Fire[/tag],…
Iron Man: the movie trailer up
I’ve been a big fan of the comic book series, since I was a little kid. When I first heard at the begging of the summer that a Iron Man movie was in the works I was ecstatic, to say the least, but at the same time skeptical, I’ve seen a lot of Marvel comics film adaption in my life that went terribly wrong (i.e. Hulk, Daredevil etc). After seeing this trailer I’ve gotta tell…
Coldplay are back with some details
Already a few months into their Barcelona recordings, preping a follow to 2005’s “X&Y”, [tag]Cold Play[/tag] have broken the until now studio silence and gave a little update on the progress of the new, un-titled, album. Writing on their website, the band said a short and to the point record is up ahead, no longer then 42 minutes and comprising 9 tracks(give or take). “Expect a short, concise record with no fat and at least…
Download: Wu-Tang Clan – ‘Watch Your Mouth’
A few days ago, a handful of lucky journalists had the chance to preview a part of the upcoming [tag]Wu Tang Clan[/tag] new album “8 Diagrams”, at a listening party set up by clan leader RZA. Village Voice, from the small bits and pieces of songs they’ve listened to, stated that the upcoming effort sounds great and “if those twenty minutes are any real indication, and I hope to God they are, The 8 Diagrams…
New Music Monday: 10 September
This week marks the controversial showdown between two of the most famous MCs in the industry [tag]50 Cent[/tag] and [tag]Kanye West[/tag], as both of their solo albums, “Curtis” and respectively “Graduation” are being released on the same day 9/11. A while back Fiddy sparked a psychological and marketing battle, between him and Kanye, when he promised to quit solo music if West outsells him on the release day. Amazon reports that Kanye is ahead of…
Download: Jens Lekman – ‘The Opposite Of Hallelujah’
I’ve fallen head over heels for Jens Lekman’s extraordinary music from the first song I’ve listened to, a few years back. My CD-player had the honor of spinning his 2005 debut, When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog, countless times and brought a lot of joy and inspiration in a lot of difficult moments in my life. Now his second record Night Falls Over Kortedala is fast approaching and as the fortunate fellow…
Led Zeppelin reforming confirmation next week?
It seems so, all facts lead to it, although a few months back Robert Plant denied any such rumors, in his characteristic fashion, saying “If there was one, then there wouldn’t be enough doctors to support it!”. What facts, do you say? Well for starters at the beginning of the week English ticket adverisers put ads out offering tickets for a Led show at the O2 Arena, London. News has it founding members Jimmy Page,…