So some of you may not have heard of the name Brooke Fraser. Hailing from New Zealand, this humble and lovely songbird has already made quite a name for herself in the Pacific region. The album Albertine was released in the U.S not too long ago, and she’s currently on tour. I managed to speak to Brooke over the phone while she was preparing dinner for some friends to just have a chat about her…
[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag] totally blew everybody over with his latest, recent studio effort “Tha Carter III,” the last album in the Carter trilogy and, most of all, what’s considered by most critiques the best rap album of 2008, so far. With a cover like this, you can’t really go anywhere but up. Anyway Lil Wayne paid a quick visit to Jimmy Kimmel a few nights ago, where he played a dazzling performance of Lollipop, one of…
[tag]Beck[/tag] and his upcoming new album, “Modern Guilt,” is just a few weeks days away from its release date, and of course the teasers and leaks couldn’t stop either. This time, after Beck previously previewed the first single from the new album, the psychedelic “Chemtrails”, the ’60s revivalist artist, much to the delight of his dedicated fans, has just streamed another two tracks from Modern Guilt. First the electro-gaze infused, Beach Boys harmony packed “Orphans,”…
Here’s a treat for the blog’s electro fans, seeing as we haven’t posted anything about one of my favorite Dj’s, [tag]Diplo[/tag], for a while. Last weekend he went by The Roots picnic, somewhere in Philly, where among other massive tunes, he mixed in a new track, punned over Ronnie Foster’s 1972 classic Mystic Brew, thoughtfully named “Brew Barrymore.” Ronnie’s soulful, jazzy sound hasn’t faded one bit in Diplo’re remix, seeing how the sexy, funky organs…
Both Within Temptation and Armin van Buuren are from the Netherlands; but that’s where the similarities end. The band shows a brilliant metal/goth spirit, being probably the best artist of the genre while Armin is considered by most to be the best DJ in the whole world. But still, it’s a pretty large bridge to cross. While I have to say the song is a great trance one, it’s nowhere near anything WT’s greatest work….
That’s right ladies and gents, the (probably) most expected album of the year has been officially named. After many many controversies and other stuff I’ll barely mention here (they first said it will be released in February then delayed it for September, then Dave Grohl wrote them an open letter, and many other things) they finally set the name for their new album. Wat’s it called? Death Magnetic. When I first heard this, I had…
I saw this ‘band’ recently, Naturally 7 when they were opening for Michael Buble here in Australia, and I have to say, they are mind blowing!! Hailing from New York City, what they do is called Vocal Play, whereby they use only their voices to sound like instruments. A 7 man group, they have a lot of different kinds of instrument sounds, from the low end of the bass to the high wailing of an…
Goodness me, what a week! Finally it feels like summer has truly begun, once with this new wave on awesome new stuff. First up is [tag]Coldplay[/tag]’s long awaited follow-up to their critical and commercial hit X & Y, in the form of “Viva la Vida or Death And All His Friends” (we’ve gotten used to the title by now, check out the stream here). The [tag]Goo Goo Dolls[/tag] are also back with yet another awesome…
So most of you probably have never heard of this artist, Bushwalla, but he’s got some of the maddest skills both in entertaining and performing. He juggles, breathes fire and balances his guitar on his chin. Having released his very first album, “Autodidactical, Freestyle, & Radical”, he’s finally filmed the video for his new song “In The Future”. Very very interesting indeed, so just thought I’d share this little musical secret. Enjoy! With special appearance…
For the last few days, I’ve been franticly spinning the new [tag]My Morning Jacket[/tag] record, “Evil Urges.” It’s really tight and very well put together, but above all it’s a lot different then anything they’ve put out. I don’t like to hear the same thing over and over again, and I’m really glad the band have decided to evolve in sounds. I was especially surprised by the new adopted direction, mixing both old school elements…
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