Regarded by many as the Princess of Pop [tag]Kylie Minogue[/tag] has been on a long hiatus for four year now, due to her dreadful brest cancer illness. She is a strong woman though and she managed to fight with the disease and eventually conquering it; those who’ve watched her live shows part of the Showgirl Greatest Hits tour know what I mean. Now Kylie is preparing to release her 10th studio effort some time in…
Yesterday [tag]White Stripes[/tag] fans everywhere had been disappointed by the shocking announcement that the band was forced to cancel it’s US tour dates, due to Meg White’s acute anxiety issues that renders her unable to travel. Now the rest of the tour has been scrapped as well, as it can been seen at the WS website. “The White Stripes have canceled all remaining tour dates through the end of the year. This includes all dates…
Months of speculations and rumors, concerning a alleged [tag]Led Zeppelin[/tag] reunion, came to a end this afternoon (4 P.M. 12 September), after the three surviving members of the group Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones confirmed the reforming was going to take place, but for a one time show only. They will be joined John Bonham’s son Jason, with whom they will play a benefit gig at the O2 Arena, better know as…
Although I’d like to stop talking about Kanye and Fiddy, I can’t really turn anywhere without bumping into one or the other. [tag]Kanye West[/tag] just recently unveiled his latest video, for his third single “Good Life”, featuring R & B star T Paine What’s this? Deja-vu? Hell yeah, remember Euro VMA’s 2006?Back then french duo [tag]Justice[tag] won the award off of Kanye, and he just lost it. Now he hired the director who made the…
NYC math rockers Battles released a formidable debut full length album in the form of Mirrored, at the start of this year, a record full of experimental synths, calculated,robot like percussions and guitar chops and beats that would cause shame even to the best MC. It also featured vocals for the first time, as in their previous EPs Battles song were only instrumental, if you can call Tyondai Braxton’s munchkins-like vocals singing. “Tonto”, the second…
Yesterday morning it was announced that sadly [tag]White Stripes[/tag] weren’t gonna be able to perform at this weekends 15-16 September Austin City Limits Festival due to unpublicized ‘health issues’ affecting Meg White. Guess all that touring had to leave some marks. A few hours later a press statement was released on whitestripes.com, clearing what the so called ‘health issue’ was and revealing even more sad news for fans. Read on and you’ll know what I’m…
Canadian quartet Hot Hot Heat released their long awaited fifth record Happiness Ltd. today, but unfortunately picked the wrong day to do it, as they’ll get little to no attention compared to the highly publicized clash between [tag]50 Cent[/tag] and [tag]Kanye West[/tag]. HHH frontman Steve Bays told Spinner later this day, that he doens’t really think he’ll outsale any of the hip-hop artists (really?), but said he would definitely want to join the victor at…
Artist name: Animal Collective Album name: Strawberry Jam Label: Domino Records Gender: Experimental/Indie Rock Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.paw-tracks.com/ Anyone who at least gave a spin to a [tag]Animal Collective[/tag] album should know that their sound is far from commercial, extremely selective and most of the time plain old inaccessible. They’ve been regarded by most music savvy men as a bastion of quality indie music, alongside such acts as [tag]Arcade Fire[/tag],…
I’ve been a big fan of the comic book series, since I was a little kid. When I first heard at the begging of the summer that a Iron Man movie was in the works I was ecstatic, to say the least, but at the same time skeptical, I’ve seen a lot of Marvel comics film adaption in my life that went terribly wrong (i.e. Hulk, Daredevil etc). After seeing this trailer I’ve gotta tell…
Already a few months into their Barcelona recordings, preping a follow to 2005’s “X&Y”, [tag]Cold Play[/tag] have broken the until now studio silence and gave a little update on the progress of the new, un-titled, album. Writing on their website, the band said a short and to the point record is up ahead, no longer then 42 minutes and comprising 9 tracks(give or take). “Expect a short, concise record with no fat and at least…
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