The legendary Athenian alt-rock trio of [tag]R.E.M.[/tag] have recently announced the title and release date of their forthcoming 14th LP. According to Billboard the album, recorded in Vancouver and Dublin and produced by Jacknife Lee, will be titled “Accelerate”, and should be out on April 1. Those of you who may still feel the bitter taste of R.E.M’s lethargic rhythm in the band’s previous album Around The Sun, can somewhat stay at ease, as the…
A big happy new year, for all you faithful readers, is in order for this first post of 2008; without your constant support we probably couldn’t have found the motivation to go on with our work. Anyway after a few days of hard drinkin’ well deserved rest, we’re back on the saddle and it seems like the band we’ve blogged the most in the past year is still here to stay. Yeah folks [tag]Radiohead[/tag] recently…
First of all we hope you had a very good year and enjoyed Christmas (in case you are Christian) and may you have a happy new year. Kudos to those who still find the time to read us in these days; you made our year good. For us it was a very busy yet rewarding year with lots of good music to choose from. We tried to give props to those who deserved it and…
“They just kicked out another band member? Is there anybody left?” “What in the name of all that is good would possess him to move in with Courtney Love?” “Is THAT really metallica?!” “So they are finally releasing Chinese Democracy…. again?” These questions say a lot about recent years, as well as this one, in music. We could not think about one to sum it up as it was an amazing year, musically speaking, from…
Anthony Gonzalez, more known under his electro moniker of M83, has always been a favorite of mine in terms of ambient electro music. His music is extremely refreshing and ecletic, plus his use of ambiental guitar kinda makes him fall into the shoegazing genre. “Saturdays = Youth”, is M83’s fifth studio album and promises to be his best yet, as it’s set to deliver the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known –this…
Surprising a lot of people [tag]Josh Groban[/tag]’s Christmas centric LP Noel, went from being just another carol record 10 weeks ago, to now being the best selling album of the year 2007, with over 2.8 million copies sold (the majority in the last few weeks). Thus surpassing “High School Musical 2” soundtrack (which has sold just over 2.7 million units) and Daughtry, the 2006 self-titled debut by “American Idol” finalist Chris Daughtry’s band, (2.3 million)….
Recently we had the chance to have, a really short but concise, e-mail conversation with Jeff Stinco, the lead guitarist from Montreal based punk-pop quintet [tag]Simple Plan[/tag]. We pondered Jeff with a few questions, about the band’s new album, sound, new video and their upcoming 2008 tour and he was gracious enough to give some interesting answers.
Boy does time fly, we just can’t believe it how this year went by so fast, well ZME Music’s been around for only 6 months, but that’s not important. Actually this year was so busy, that we hardly could face the large amounts of new releases every week, especially in the summer time and believe us we don’t complain. Due to this, 2007, was the year in which new music was making it’s comeback; we’ve…
The string of inconsistent releases, leave their mark, this week as well, with the usual end of the year mediocre Hip-Hop releases and here and there compilations. Worth mentioning are [tag]Mary J. Blige[/tag], [tag]Lupe Fiasco[/tag] or [tag]Chingy[/tag], each with a new album out this week. A personal favorite of mine this week is from behalf of [tag]Weezer[/tag] frontman Rivers Cuomo and his first solo record “Alone–the Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo,” a collection of songs…
A few months ago we presented you with this year’s Rock & Roll HOF first time eligible to be inducted artists. Now the five grand artist that have been honored with the flattering inductions have been announced, and leading the pack is no other then the pop queen [tag]Madonna[/tag], thanks to her debut single, “Everybody,” that was released twenty-five years ago in 1982. Madonna and John Mellencamp will be inducted into the Rock and Roll…
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