One of my favorite songwriters, Spencer Krug, is set to travel across the Atlantic , accompanied by his band Sunset Rubdown, as part of a spring tour in Europe. The Canadians will be touring across the old world, through out UK, Ireland, and a couple Scandinavian countries before ending in early June. Should prove entertaining, [...]
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Artist name: Cat Power Album name: Jukebox Label: Matador Gender: Indie Release date: January 22, 2008 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: www.catpowerthegreatest.com It’s a pretty well known fact Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, is a bit eccentric in nature, to say the least, fact that can be attested by her live show attendants. But this exact eccentricity, combined with her signature weary, smoky [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The Canadian indie quartet are readying themselves for their upcoming proper debut album, titled “Elephant Shell,” after their first, very well received EP, the 2006 A Lesson In Crime. Tokyo Police Club have confirmed the record’s completion, as well as a scheduled release date in late April via Saddle Creek in North America and Memphis [...]
Friday, January 18, 2008
Weird videos are not a novelty for us, from behalf of duo We Are Scientists, but this time, with their latest single “After Hours,” confused is a light word. In short Keith is having a dinner in three with band mate Chris and his girl friend; Chris then is entranced by Keith’s dalmatian dog, which [...]
Friday, January 18, 2008
Artist name: The Magnetic Fields Album name: Distortion Label: Nonesuch Records Gender: Synth Pop/Indie Release date: January 15, 2008 ZMErating: 7/10 Website: www.houseoftomorrow.com Highly regarded as one of the most inspired and gifted songwriters of our times, Sthephin Merrit, is less an eccentric, as most people tend to call him, but more of a musical maverick, with a disregard for musical [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Since they first popped out on the mainstream radar, with the critical acclaimed release Z, the Louisville quintet hasn’t quite fancied itself in making public appearances, apart from the usual gigs. If you add that to almost 3 years of non existing new material, you could MMJ is kinda holding back on us, details, however, [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
We usually don’t like to talk about politics, actually I personally hate it, but Arcade Fire frontman, Win Butler, recent statement is worth posting, as it sums a bunch of sentiments, I myself had accumulated during these seemingly neverending election campaigns. Although Win rarely update’s his blog scrapbook, he makes it up for it with [...]
Friday, January 11, 2008
Seems like a lot of artists have recently endevoured into ‘green’ activities and charities, don’t really know what sparked this sudden interest; you’d think its an election year. Anyway, The Green Owl Comp: A Benefit for the Energy Action Coalition is a a two-CD/one-DVD collection, packed with rare, live and remixed songs from some of [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
After becoming a four piece band once more, after Devin Hoff joined on bass in May, Xiu Xiu are set to show the world, well just North America really, what the new lineup is capable of. With that in mind the band has mapped a string of shows in the US and Canada, that can [...]
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
In a previous edition of our MP3 freebies I posted a song that really touched me and that proved to be a true on repeat by Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, namely the slow motioned soundtrack of Faster Then Cars. This time I’d like to put to your attention a song [...]
Primal Scream: 'Beautiful Future'
Beck: 'Modern Guilt'
Mudcrutch: 'Mudcrutch'
Jason Mraz: 'We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things'
R.E.M.: ‘Accelerate’
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