In the last few days a wave of violence has swept the Mexican state, aimed at a subculture of Mexican youth going by the label of emo. This all started about two weeks ago in, the otherwise quiet, colonial capital of Queretaro, when mobs of people attacked groups of emos, in an attempt to [...]

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Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan’s latest joint effort The Gutter Twins proved to be quite successful; with two grunge stars what could go wrong the first place anyway? Saturnalia, the duo’s debut LP got a lot of attention and positive critical feedback, receiving a lot of praise for their grungy, shit kicking tracks, like the [...]

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The rockabilly duo that formed the ’80s cult act Flat Duo Jets is clearly one of the most underrated bands in rock’n’roll history. The blue-garage duo paved the way for similar bands and influenced a great deal of artists through out the ‘90 and 2000’s like R.E.M. or Catpower or the most clear example [...]

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Artist name: Yael Naim
Album name: Yael Naim
Label: Tôt ou tardAtlantic
Gender: Pop
Release date: March 18, 2008
ZMErating: 7/10
Website: www.yaelweb.com
There’s been a entire frenzy lately with Apple’s latest gadget: the Macbook Air and as it’s almost always the case with Apple ads, the artists featured on them get a heck load of attention. Yael Naim, untill now [...]

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Last month we were thrilled to announce a three band long lineup of the new west coast San Francisco Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. The band announced were  Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson. Solid headliners indeed, but not quite enough for a three day long festival.
Thus Beck, Wilco, Widespread Panic and Devendra Banhart [...]

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Well holding a super rock group together can definetly be a challenge, especially when you’ve got Scott Weiland there. To be quite frank, it’s a surprise for me that they lasted so long together.
But now, pressure’s starting: The Stone Temple Pilots are planning a reunion tour, Slash is preparing a new solo release, and many [...]

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Well to tell you the truth I can’t imagine what it was like decades ago, when blues singers went into juke joints and sang their lungs and fingers off, for food and something to drink, or for very few cash in the fortunate cases.
Anyway, the feel and groove must have been fantastic; and who knows [...]

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What better way to start off the week, then a fresh does of new music? In this week folks is pretty darn impressive to say the least. Firstly we have Jack White’s The Raconteurs who’ve suddenly and out of the blue released their sophomore LP “Consolers Of The Lonely.” Then there’s the pop rock veterans [...]

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mr. Gnome (notice the lower cased ‘m’) is a emerging Cleveland duo, that’s been getting some pretty high profile attention lately and righteously so. Their style is a bit hard to center, ranging from art rock, to pure punk, to some kind of prog metal, but whatever label their music might carry these two [...]

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To celebrate their forthcoming Canada tour, the southern cal’ hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age, are set to release a “Limited Tour Edition” of last year’s ZME top 10 albums Era Vulgaris. The track will feature some awesome live versions of Era Vulgaris songs, as well as some of the band’s pre-Vulgaris songs. [...]

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