QOTSA stream new album before its release

Source. QOTSA – …Like Clockwork Today, 28 May 2013, it’s such a great day for science, I mean music, because Queens of The Stone Age decided to stream their album in full before June 3rd (the official release day). The band posted yesterday on their official twitter page: QOTSA ‏@qotsa 14h Dear world, starting tomorrow you can stream ALL of …Like Clockwork @iTunesMusic Get on in there. http://iTunes.com/QOTSA Last week they also…

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The Kills Tame the Fox

Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart (respectively) during "Kissy Kissy" at the Oakland Fox, 9/9/11.

All is quiet in the Oakland Fox Theatre; the Friday night air (in which the scents of various types of alcohol and stale breath swim) has never been so…silent. The crowd waits, enthralled, hanging on any sound they could manage to hear from beyond the black side-curtains of the stage. Boots hit the hardwood stage floor, but…

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Godsmack’s Sully Erna presents “Avalon”

Sully Erna - Avalon

Sully Erna, front man for the band Godsmack has released his new album “Avalon” into the world. This is a collection of music put perfectly together after many years in the making.  Track by track each song more powerful then the next, stretching his musical talent to new places.  Different from the Godsmack style and sound, this album has a Pink Floyd trippy vibe, with a mix…

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John Mayall – The Academy, Dublin (21/7/09)

My one presiding memory of visiting my granddad when I was knee high to a shepherd’s pie is, of all things, screwing around with the old man’s stair lift. Utterly lost on me and my brother was the importance of the machine for allowing my granddad easy ascent – all we saw was a hilarious toy that distracted us from the boring grown-up talk that was going on around us. I’m fairly certain we broke…

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A Camp – The Academy, Dublin (29/4/09)

You know how some people can just walk into a room, and instantly take control of it? All eyes will shift to them, all attention will be focused squarely on them, the entire congregation will hang on their every word. Think Penny Lane from Cameron Crowe’s wonderful Almost Famous – when she walks into Stillwater’s hotel room, starts reciting the pre-flight safety spiel, and commands the rapt attention of every last person in earshot. The…

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David Gilmour releases ‘Live in Gdansk’

There is not one single band in this world that sounds even close to Pink Floyd; what they did together was just unbelievable! Now, they’re still continuing their work more or less separate, but the headlight is definitely pointed at David Gilmour. Now, he released Live In Gdansk, an album recorded in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland. Recorded in Gilmour’s 2006 summer tour, it’s the only gig in which he…

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Josh Groban to release live CD/DVD “Awake Live”

The world renowned baritone Josh Groban had a wonderful professional year in 2007. His Chrismas carol album Noël was declared , with almost 3 million copies sold, the year’s best seller, spent five consecutive weeks on top of the Billboard 200, but also held a word class tour across the US. A live CD/DVD had to be made and of course it soon followed. Thus, on May 6th 2008, the Grammy award winning artist will…

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