Burial is quite possibly the most enigmatic artist in the last few years, releasing two highly well regarded albums, in almost complete anonymity. He’s a totally focused individual, who cares about nothing but his music; his own person comes in second place. Add that to his London underground dubstep music, and you’ve got a really shrouded, but very intriguing persona on your hands. Now, In a recent blog post on his MySpace page today (August…
The summer is the most fruitous period for music of the year, but then there’s that mid-season interval between smashing LPs where things get a bit slow and we get a chance to cool off a bit. Consider this week one of these summer breaks, with more modest releases, but interesting enough to keep your blood flowing so to speak. Anyway, leading the platoon of new releases this week is, in my opinion at least,…
Ah, the kings are back. No, not Elvis impersonators (the ’80s are long gone, thank God!), but fellow Tennesse southern rockers [tag]Kings of Leon[/tag], with a new album eaching to see the light of day, and a new single to match it too. “Crawl” is the name of the first song released by KoL (as a free MP3 actually, on their website) off the upcoming album, Only by the Night, built in the manner of…
Oh, people never leave these poor people alone, do they? First there was that really awesome cruel emo witch-hunt back in Mexico, then there was that all press mambo jambo going on with an English teenage emo who killed herself, now to top things off the State Duma is thinking about passing a law to ban the emo current all together in Mother Russia. According to NME a legislation is already currently being formulated in…
Yesterday brought some sad news, folks. Our favorite post punkers, the Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet just announced through a press release on their MySpace blog, that the band will officially disband soon. “To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going to be our last as a band. We thank you for all your love and support these past few…
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