Bad boy gone good, country/folk/rock/whatever star [tag]Ryan Adams[/tag] has just recently announced the details concerning his upcoming autumn North American tour, but this after he’ll have a short series of gigs in New Zealand and Australia. Ry will be joined by his band The Cardinals on the tour that will see him and co. play across North America, supporting Ry’s latest LP Easy Tiger, on such venus as: NY, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Chicago or Madison.
Download: Devendra Banhart – ‘Seahorse’
Last week we had a little discussion about [tag]Devendra Banhart[/tag]’s latest video, the 8 minute epic Seahorse. Now the song has been chosen as the official promo for Devendra’s upcoming LP, “Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon”, set for September 25, and has been released for free sampling by XL Records. [display_podcast]
Liars + Interpol = Badass Tour
New York based three-piece [tag]Liars[/tag] are only a few weeks away from releasing their forth LP, the selftitled “Liars”, which has been getting a lot hype around it lately. The band will embark on a album promotion tour, shortly after the albums release, on August 28, hand in hand with their mates from [tag]Interpol[/tag]. The tour will see Liars and Interpol perform in locations all across America, from NY’s Madison Square Garden to LA’s The…
New video Editors: ‘An End Has A Start’
‘An End Has A Start’ is the selftitle track of Editors newest album, the second single after ‘Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors’. The single will be out on September 3, and will include the b-side “Open Up” as well, which you may recognize it as the bonus track off the Japanese album edition. The song has a classic Editors sound and vibe, with the trademark exploding guitar wall and Tom Smith commanding vocals. As for…
Download: Magik Markers – ‘Taste’
I’ve been recently digging Kentucky noise rock duo Magik Markers ( Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan), a band that sounds super primitive, with super groovy free rock, a lot of supers anyway. What i most like about them is their keen sense of improvisation, often jamming on the spot on gigs. If your interested their debut album, in this formation, “BOSS” will be out on September 25, in the US. The leading track off BOSS, is…
MP3 eating worm at loose on the internet
Yup, you’ve heard it right. A new computer virus has been discovered by Sophos security company that spreads with the help of USB flash drives, infects your computer and deletes all your MP3 files on the hard-drive. A real threat for all music lovers, like myself, that would be devastated by the loss, i know i would; i have over 100 GB of music, not counting the full box of DVDs.
New Rilo Kiley track: “Silver Lining”
Here’s another peek on [tag]Rilo Kiley[/tag]’s upcoming forth album “Under The Blacklight”, a very promising LP from what I’ve had the chance to sample. “Silver Lining” is the title of the second track, after the extremely sexy “Moneymaker”, that Rilo Kiley has been gracious enough to share with ous, before the release of the sexiest album ever (?), on August 20. The song is loads of fun and extremely catchy, with ’60 feel and beat…
Bjork: ‘Innocence’ video contest winner
If you recall, in a previous post, we talked about a video making contest for [tag]Bjork[/tag]’s newest single ‘Innocence’. Bjork chose 10 lucky finalists from 500 entries, that were up for voting on the website and yesterday evening the winner was announced. Actually winners, the french directors Fred & Annabela who won with entry #10, the best video out of the finalist, hands down; I haven’t seen videos as good as this from actual hired…
MTV Video Music Awards 2007: Nominations
After a great deal of fuss, surrounding this years MTV Video Music Awards, the nominees were announced at today’s TRL edition, at a startling slow rate. This edition will be a tad different, with a few extra categories added(for all you losers out there) and a shortening of the event, to a mere 2 hours. Leading the, almost traditional, superficial celebrity pack, this year, are [tag]Justin Timberlake[/tag], [tag]Beyonce[/tag], [tag]Rihanna[/tag] and a lot more. The 2007…
Lopez, Anthony announce tour dates
Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony, who co-star in the new movie “El Cantante,” will go on a concert tour together starting next month. They have time to spend together and that is nice to notice. The 14-date tour will open Sept. 29 in Atlantic City, N.J., and wrap up Nov. 2 in Miami. She will perform songs from her Spanish-language album, “Como Ama una Mujer (How a Woman Loves),” which was mainly produced by…