That’s it guys, after months and months of lineup speculations, the news are in, for this year’s  Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, that takes place between April 25-27, in the hot, but always cool Indio, California. No big surprises here, with no spectacular bands announcing a comeback or something (we’re obviously thinking about My [...]

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After a year filled with all sort of reunions it seems we are going to have another share of reunited bands. This time we are talking about Triumph.
They made history during the late 1970s and 80s and made a name for themselves as a great live band, with guitarist Rik Emmett being compared with Eddie [...]

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After a lifetime of playing soldout to crowds and in every corner of the world, U2 have done what their fans do all the time: line up to see a u2 show. That concert was “U2 3D,” a film of the band’s 2005-06 Vertigo tour, shot at several shows in South America with new 3-D [...]

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The latest news post from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ brand new, shiny, website reads  “HAPPPYYY FREAKIN NEW YYYEAR,” in the titled and we can’t help but wonder wtf? I mean new year’s been 2 and a half weeks ago, but I guess the fact the band’s been a bit in isolation, recording and writing their [...]

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This is definitely one of those indie dominating weeks, with new releases from the likes of Cat Power, Dengue Fever, The Whigs or Get Set Go. Some highlights include Charlyn Marshall’s (Cat Power) “Jukebox,” her second cover album, filled with great renditions of such classics as James Brows, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan or Lee Clayton, [...]

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Def Leppard has set a March 18 tentative U.S. release date (one day earlier internationally) for its new album, entitled “Songs from the Sparkle Lounge”. If things work out then it will be the first release since “Yeah!”, which was a collection of covers of songs by artists who had influenced the band.
In fact their [...]

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Regarding this topic, people are divided into two sides: those who admit they eagerly await the new Metallica album and those who don’t. OK so their last album was… not quite we expected to say the least. But we all expect the next one especially since it promises a lot. The gods have a chance [...]

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Weird videos are not a novelty for us, from behalf of duo We Are Scientists, but this time, with their latest single “After Hours,” confused is a light word. In short Keith is having a dinner in three with band mate Chris and his girl friend; Chris then is entranced by Keith’s dalmatian dog, which [...]

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Artist name: The Magnetic Fields
Album name: Distortion
Label: Nonesuch Records
Gender: Synth Pop/Indie
Release date: January 15, 2008
ZMErating: 7/10
Website: www.houseoftomorrow.com
Highly regarded as one of the most inspired and gifted songwriters of our times, Sthephin Merrit, is less an eccentric, as most people tend to call him, but more of a musical maverick, with a disregard for musical [...]

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It’s been 5 years since Counting Crows’s marvelous last album, Hard Candy dropped on a hot summer day of 2002. Now the Californian seven piece band, are preparing to release their highly anticipated followup, titled “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings.”It’s a really different album, in terms of concept, like nothing the band’s done before. In [...]

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