Tibi Puiu“I’m Not There” is a the on screen biography of one of todays biggest, living rock legends, [tag]Bob Dylan[/tag]. What’s makes this different from all the other biopics, is the fact that the character of Bob Dylan will be played by 6 different actors, all for different periods of his life. So Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw will each play Dylan, a brilliant move or just…
New Rilo Kiley video: ‘Silver Lining’
After the explicit Moneymaker video, it’s time for [tag]Rilo Kiley[/tag]’s next single, Silver Lining, to get a video. This time the indie quartet turned to Autumn de Wilde, a very talented photographer turned video director, with whom singer Jenny Lewis has worked before on her solo album photo cover. The video’s plot is a wedding ceremony, in which Jenny’s is the bride and Blake Sennett, lead guitarist, the groom. In the begging of the video…
Album Preview: Mark Knopfler ‘Kill To Get Crimson’
Mark Knopfler, renowned guitarist, singer and songwriter, most known as the frontman for the English rock band [tag]Dire Straits[/tag], is set to release his fifth solo album Kill To Get Crimson on September 18, via Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in Mark’s own, purpose-built studio, British Grove in West London, Kill To Get Crimson contains selected traditional instrumentation as well as the more usual guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Featured players include accordionist Ian Lowthian, with…
Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello team up for fall tour
[tag]Bob Dylan[/tag] and [tag]Elvis Costello[/tag] are set to tour together in an 13 dates long string of gigs, all around the US. The tour featuring the two iconic figures will kick off in Duluth, Georgia on September 22, before coming to a epic halt in Rochester, NYC on October 9. Presale tickets can be bought Bob Dylan’s website. Dates after the jump.
Beck releases latest single: ‘Time Bomb’
Yesterday, 20 August, [tag]Beck[/tag] released his latest single “Time Bomb” via iTunes at 0.99$, you can buy it from other download and retail stores starting 28 August. The old man’s still got it, and hits us with a classic Beck single, with electro vibes, annoying piano line, and a ga-ga-ga chorus. At first listen its quite annoying, but it’s grown on me now, quite fun actually, with doom’s day lyrics about ticking bombs, red alerts…
M.I.A.: ‘Kala’
Artist name: M.I.A. Album name: Kala Label: XL Records Gender: Hip-Hop/Electronic Release date: August 21, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.miauk.com/ “M.I.A.’s coming back with power!” At least that’s what trip-hop princess Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, or more know by her stage name [tag]M.I.A.[/tag], states in the chorus of “Bamboo Banga”, a new song of her latest album “Kala”. Indeed she’s back in full throttle; if you thought her debut album, “Arular”, was tight, varied and adventures,…
New Foo Fighters video: ‘The Pretender’
There was really a lot of hype around [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag] latest single “The Pretender” , when we released the mp3 out for download. Nearly 2000 people downloaded the song, now 2 weeks and half of our bandwidth later the video for this great song has surfaced. First I’d like to express my appreciation for the director of the video, Sam Brown (James Blunt, Fray etc) who through his excellent directing and editing skills has succeeded…
‘Walk Hard’: a Johhny Cash biopic parody
Remember when we told you [tag]Jack White[/tag] was going to act in a new movie soon? Well that movie is none other then Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story a clear spoof of the [tag]Johnny Cash[/tag] biopic Walk The Line, staring John C. Reilley as Dewey Cox, a man on a mission: to become a musical legend. The movie also features Paul Rudd as John Lennon, Jack Black as Paul McCartney and of course Jack…
Neil Young with a new album soon
Canadian folk/rock legend [tag]Neil Young[/tag] has recently revealed, at his website, plans to release a new record called “Chrome Dreams II”. You might ask why the “II” ? Apparently Neil had a project called “Chrome Dreams”, way back in 1977, that unfortunately was shelved and never saw the light of day. The new album will feature 10 tracks, 7 brand new ones and 3 which were already written, probably from the old ’77 unreleased LP….
Download: Earlimart – ‘Happy Alone’
California native Earlimart have gone through a lot of changes in their musical style along their 10 years of existence. Their first records were more post-punk/folk influenced, sounding more like Pixies and Sonic Youth, but ever since Aaron Espinoza discovered that adding a piano can drastically improve their music, they’ve been spitting out sophisticated pop, that often resembling Elliott Smith. “Happy Alone” is a slow and melancholic track, off Earlimart’s latest album Mentor Tormentor. Espionoza’s…