To celebrate their forthcoming Canada tour, the southern cal’ hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age, are set to release a “Limited Tour Edition” of last year’s ZME top 10 albums Era Vulgaris. The track will feature some awesome live versions of Era Vulgaris songs, as well as some of the band’s pre-Vulgaris songs. There’s one catch to it though: it’s only available in Canada upon its release on April 15. I guess it’s a…
For their latest single, the Portland synthpop duo Chromatics, have chosen to make a more darker and creepier video, then those with which they’ve accustomed us with; definitively much more creepier. The video in cause is for the haunting instrumental “Killing Spree,” off of the band’s last year effort “Night Drive”, in which director Johnny Jewel has done a remarkable job at capturing the song’s creepy, haunting vibe on the tube, YouTube actually (bad joke,…
The forthcoming presidential elections have certainly affected us all for a while, even the likes of the Philadelphia based hip-hop group The Roots. Details concerning their upcoming tenth studio album, titled “Rising Down,” have just recently surface, as band member ?uestlove calls the new record “probably our most political album to date, dealing with addiction, nihilism, hypocritical double standards in the prison system, and overall life in Philadelphia.” He soon follows-up saying Rising Down is…
There’s been a lot of hype, around the trip-hop veterans’ first album in ten years, during the past weeks, however their one of the few acts that actually deserve it. I mean isn’t a new Portishead album enough reason to run about, telling everyone about it? For me it is and whenever I get the chance, I try cover them and today that chance is a new video for “Machine Gun,” the first single from…
Surprise, surprise. Jack White and The Raconteurs just went all maverick on us and just announced that they’ll release a new album and that no later then next week ! I mean Jack pulled some pretty wacky stunts in the past, the whole Meg White sister-wife thingy being the first to come to mind, but this just might top all of them. The news came out last night, as the band announced their new record…
Funplex, the highly anticipated upcoming new album by The B-52’s, is just one week away (25th March release date). Until then, bellow you can find the album stream, so you can try it before you buy it. >>Stream: The B-52’s – Funplex (full album)
I’ve written a bit in the past about one of my favorite indie newcomers, the Canadians from Plants and Animals, but what I failed to mention about the band was their dazzling live shows. While I haven’t personally had the chance to see the band in action, even in the various videos on YouTube Plants and Animals truly feel alive. Now fresh after their SXSW live performance, the band is set to part on a…
Artist name: Ludo Album name: You’re Awful, I Love You Label: Island Gender: Power Pop Release date: February 26, 2008 ZMErating: 7/10 Website: www.ludorock.com The St. Louis power pop quintet have been gaining a lot of ground lately, getting more and more airing space on the radio, increasing their fan base day to day and of course gaining a lot of exposure on music blogs. In a nutshell Ludo could be described as a Queen/Weezer’s…
Sad day today folks. One of the few decent musical publications left in the US, Harp, just announced that it will be closing its gates. This all come a bit out of the sudden, at a Friday night SXSW party thrown away by triple-A bible Harp. The reasons behind the magazine’s collapse are still unknown, but it appears there are some pretty dirty stuff hovering around it. Anyway it’s better we don’t speak about, looks…
Last year was a fantastic one for, Washington based band, Modest Mouse. They’ve released their fifth studio album “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank”, the first one with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, with tremendous success, landing on top of the Billboard 200 chart and extensively touring the US with mates R.E.M./The National. With all these under their belt I think it’s safe to say the band deserve to have a bit of…
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