“The Crying Light”, the latest LP signed Anthony and The Johnsons, is a beautiful 10 track set, that lifts you up and transcends the mind to distant, carefree lands. It’s truly a magical experience. Aeon is quite possibly the most impressive song off The Crying Light, a song that Anthony and co. performed recently at the Late Show with David Letterman, now available bellow. The live tune doesn’t affect its flavor one bit, although the…
Album name: I Just Want To Feel That Way (EP) Artist name: Ryan Smith Genre: Pop/Rock Released: 2008 Label: n/a ZME Rating: 4/10 Website: ryansmithonline.com I seem to be falling into a pattern of reviewing every EP from every little-known artist that falls across my lap, looking up at me with lonely eyes, begging for some loving attention and a little recognition. Which is fine – I’d like to think that years from now, at…
Garage rock saviours Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back in full swing, everybody! Yesterday the band gave a first tase of the new material they’ve been prepping as the YYYs third full length studio release, “It’s Blitz!,” when they put out the first single “Zero” as a live stream on myspace. The single got, evidently, immediately ripped and all over the interwebs, but what’s trully worth noting is the band still rocks like never before! When…
Kanye’s new video for “Welcome to Heartbreak”, off the magnetic “808s and Heartbreak”, is quite the spectacle for eyes. What makes it really interesting is the strange depixelation technique, very common in low quality .avi movies. Sadly, though, it seems there was an indie video which sparked terrible resemblance to the one from bellow, released one week ago. Consequently, Kanye’s ego took over and decided to have the video taken down, as hear on Kanye’s…
One my favorite indie-rock band, the Brooklyn trio Bishop Allen, is hard at work prepping their upcoming, third full-length studio release, “Grrr…” – a beautiful collection of 13 tracks, packed with bright melodies, bouncy bass lines and snappy guitars. After 2006’s ambitions project of releasing a new EP every month and the awesomely fun The Broken String, Grrr is gonna rock the house. Countdown to March 10, people! [display_podcast]
The Black Key’s vocalist and axe man, Dan Auerbach, returned on national TV with a live rendition of his latest solo single, “My Last Mistake,” on the Late Night Show with Conan O’Brien. It’s really interesting to see Dan outside his usual, bluesy persona and find out there’s more to his musical repertoir than meets the eye. A lot more raw, a lot more rock. Off his latest solo LP, “Keep It Hid.” Note, the…
The follow-up to Grizzly Bear’s breakthrough album has been in high anticipation by the whole indie scene for some time now, and, while these little teasers are all fun and all, the May release date is just killing us! The most recent of these teasers, after the initial unveiling of the album name from last week, dubbed “Veckatimes”, after an uninhabited island on the Massachusetts coast, is the cover art (as seen above) and tracklist…
Some pretty interesting new music this week, folks, with Morrissey’s “Years of Refusal” leading the wave of new releases. Everybody’s been talking a lot about it, it’s controversial album + single cover, the music itself and so on, but in the end, let’s face it, it’s the Moz, and he’s never failed us yet. Other interesting releases this week include new releases from … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Sutton…
One of the hippest festivals of the year, the Austin SXSW art festival, is right around the corner, with only a few weeks left until it kicks off. For your convenience, so you can plan out a dreamy weekend, the good folks that handle the fest’s organization have just released the schedule for all three days, ordered alphabetically. Considering the sheer number of bands playing, though, it’s gonna be a bit hard sorting through all…
OK! Don’t get too exited, since this may or not really happen, as there a lot of complications that might intervene in a studio and, most importantly, the source of the story is Wikipedia. As of February 2, 2009 Muse has already made it into the studio and begun recording at least one song for their upcoming album. On microcuts.net, a news headline has stated that the album is slated for a September 2009 release,…
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