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…
This seems like a great week for indie and punk acts, with new records from the likes of Be Your Own Pet, The Kills, The Matches, The Hush Sound or The A.K.A.s. The most interesting release of this week, however, is the self titled record from recently publicized Yael Naim. She gained a lot of recognition and fame when her lead single New Hope got featured on the new Macbook Air Apple ad. Other notable…
Well we’ve been awaiting for them to make their move for quite a while, but the wait has not been in vain. According to Daily Star, Arctic Monkeys are going to release their third album this year. This would be their third album in just three years, quite a remarkable performance.Alex Turner and co. are believed to be busy recording in their London studio the follow-up to ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’, which would complete their hattrick….
Last week(March 2), Nine Inch Nails shocked the scene, when they released their latest instrumental album “Ghosts: I-IV,” completely out of the blue and most importantly for free, to a certain extent of course. The first volume, out of four, was given out for free, while the complete record was put out in various formats, both digital and physical, ranging from 5$ to 300$ (the deluxe edition with uber NIN merc). Now one week later,…
Probably the funniest things I’ve stumbled upon these days are once again music related, and once again we have youtube to thank, as well as the users who uploaded and created the videos. Have you ever wondered what are WOW characters doing when they’re not fighting to take over the world (or whatever it is they’re fighting for… I’m not a fan)? They sure can groove? What? You don’t believe it? Here’s the proof! The…
April’s fool day prank or not, the lands from Radiohead have just announced that they’ll perform a another free entrance live setlist on April 1st, this time within the more spacious confines of London’s BBC Radio Theatre. The band made a similar attempt, back in mid January, when they announced and played a live concert, in a cramp location in downtown London, all in one day. The BBC will give out tickets either by applying…
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,…
I’ve never been a fan of their attitude, nor of the way they promote themselves, but you have to give them credit for making great music. But they’re nowhere near as good as Oasis as they claim to be, and they still have a lot to work to gain the recognition they claim to deserve. About the following album, band members have (as expected) only great words: at first, Tom Meighan described it as “psychedelic”,…
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…
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