This week to grace us with their presence is one of Seattle’s most fun and underrated bands, The Presidents of the United States of America, who are releasing their sixth studio album “These Are The Good Times People.” Also on the rap front, Fat Joe, Rick Ross and Snoop Dogg are all coming back strong with new records; curious to see how Snoop, and his “Ego Trippin’,” will do particularly. Irish soul master, Van Morrison,…
My favorite release for this week, is “Saturnalia”, the debut album from behalf of two of the finest musicians of the ’90s: Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs), that together form The Gutter Twins. The two met for the first time in 1989, but it took them almost 15 years to make music together, as recordings for Saturnalia began at the beginning of 2003. Now, five years later, the album brings…
A compilation of Joy Division’s best songs, spanning across their two iconic album career, is set to for release sometime at the end of March. The compilation is suggestively titled “The Best Of Joy Division” and will be comprised of two discs; the first features all the band’s hit singles, while the second will feature an interview with the band’s late singer, Ian Curtis, and drummer Stephen Morris, conducted by Richard Skinner. Besides the interview,…
The pop rock quartet, that swept away all the possible pop charts last year, with their intimate love song “Hey There Delilah,” from the band’s third effort All That We Need. Now Plain White T’s have announced that their hard at work writing songs for their upcoming, yet untitled, album and that they’ll soon hit the recording studios in spring. Here’s what the band’s frontman Tom Higgenson had to say about it: “Yeah, there’s actually…
Tom Holkenborg, better known under his stage name moniker Junkie XL, has made quite a name for himself in the electro dance scene, over a decade of activity. He first got some recognition for his skills as a talented producer, remixer and musicians, when his version of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation” turned into a smashing hit. Since then, he’s reworked tracks from Rammstein, Justin Timberlake or Coldplay, but also made his own, unique…
Justin Vernon or Bon Iver, as he’s better known in the indie music community, made a lot of waves, towards the end of last year, with his independently released debut album “For Emma, Forever Ago.” The intense passion and soul of the album can be sensed from the very first listen, probably because it was truly an album centered around a man’s quest for finding himself. Isolation and sorrow are of the album’s themes, probably…
A San Diego native, the acoustic talent Tristan Prettyman, definitely charmed from her first hello. This time around however, she’s truly spoiling us with a acoustic cover of Yael Naim’s “New Soul,” or as most of you know it: the song from the Macbook Air commercial. Even more reasons to eagerly await her sophomore album “Hello,” out April 15. [display_podcast]
Some of you may remember when we wrote, in our Bands to Watch feature, about a nifty and emerging St. Louis pop-punk band, called Ludo. Their latest record “You’re Awful I Love You,” hit every respecting store on February 26th and was quickly embraced by their fans and new listeners alike. Recently I had the chance to have a short chat with two of the band members, frontman Andrew Volpe and synth master Tim Convy,…
Yesterday night “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” had none other the Chan Cat Power Marshall as its performing guest. The she sang a more then honorable rendition of Frank Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York,” song also present in her Jukebox covers album.
We all know MTV’s nothing like it used to be, gone are the days of 24h non-stop music videos, to be replaced with superficial talk shows and hours upon hours of commercials. Internet, on-demand TV, seems to be the future of visual broadcasting entertainment now and popular Internet ezine Pitchfork Media knows this well. So, according to a recent announcement, Pitchfork.tv, the latest addition to the media giant’s family, will air live on April 7;…
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