Acclaimed singer-songwriter Lori McKenna, a plumber’s wife and mother of five from tiny Stoughton, MA was thrust into the limelight when Faith Hill included “Stealing Kisses” and two other songs on 2005’s #1 pop/country Fireflies. With 4 albums under her belt, Lori is now ready for her first major label debut album, dubbed “Unglamorous”, set to be in a store near you on August 14. Produced by Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore for their Stylesonic…
A few months ago, in December, as part of the SNL’s Digital Short comedian, a music video was aired staring Andy Samberg and pop star Justin Timberlake, called “Dick In A Box”. The video was satirical to boy bands, Andy and JT both looking like 2 boyband wannabes, with a hilarious Backstreet Boys look and with a neo-soul croon sound. Anyway 7 months later it seems they’ve been nominated for a Emmy for Outstanding Original…
As some of you may know, pop super boy [tag]James Blunt[/tag], is planning to release his second full length studio album called “All the Lost Souls”, after the his debut smashing hit record “Back To Bedlam”, the record of the millennium from a sales point of view. The LP release date is set for September 17, 2007 and so far a total of 6 tracks have been confirmed (1973; Annie; I Really Want You; Same…
I’ve always had the deepest respect for one of my favorite Indie bands [tag]Blonde Redhead[/tag], delighting people with their music and work for 10 years now. Their last release “23” simply blew my mind, its such a great record with great songs. One of these great songs is “The Dress”, a very pretty and passionate song, but also delightfully uncanny, thanks to Makino’s masterful whisper. The video was directed by Mike Mills, a man with…
US [tag]Arctic Monkeys[/tag] fans are in luck. The band recently announced the dates for their upcoming US tour, as part of their World Tour. The indie quartet have just received a second Mercury Music Prize nomination, for their second full length album and seem quite on a row. Besides the US, they’ll play on two occasions in Canada as well, in Toronto and Montreal. The dates: September 5: New York, NY Central Park Summerstage September…
German Power Metal legends [tag]Helloween[/tag] are set to embark in a all out “hellish” rock tour, starting sometime in mid November and ending sometime in mid January. The tour, dubed “HELLISH ROCK 2007/2008”, is an all European tour in which the band will tour much of the continent, from London to Bremen to Bucharest etc., basically all the major European venues. Teaming up with Helloween are fellow power metalists [tag]Gamma Ray[/tag], who’s leader is non…
It seems every where i turn i can’t shake Billy Corgan, the man’s everywhere. This time he sheds some light on the much controversial Tarantula single cover, depicting Paris Hilton holding a BlackBerry with the Zeitgeist album cover on the screen, and a low-resolution image of a mushroom cloud in the background. Here’s how Billy convinced the oh-so ‘popular’ Paris Hilton to pose for the cover: ( via Blabbermouth) Actually the original idea was we…
Paul Epworth, producer of such bands a: Babyshambles, Bloc Party, Maximo Park, The Rakes etc. just released a robotized version of [tag]Interpol[/tag]’s hit single “The Heinrich Maneuver”, from their smashing new album “Our Love To Admire”. Check out the remix’s streaming at Interpol’s myspace profile
The welsh quartet [tag]The Automatic[/tag] have revealed details concerning their first upcoming US headline tour, in support of their recent new record “Not Accepted Anywhere”. The band will begin touring North America from July 26, when they can be seen at NY’s Bowery Ballroom, after which they will cross country the US, make a stop in Toronto’s Mod Club on August 1, before finally calling it closed on August 8 when they will be playing…
In another publicity stunt, [tag]Smashing Pumpkins[/tag]’s frontman Billy Corgan is apparently looking the two twin Siamese girls, that were featured on the cover of SP’s most acclaimed and best album “Siamese Dream”. As seen on stereogum, quoting Corgan’s camp: In a bit of a fun story, The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for the young girls that adorned the album cover of their record, SIAMESE DREAM. They have most definitely aged to their teens at this…
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