Download: Bloc Party – ‘Flux’

Always been a fan of [tag]Bloc Party[/tag] from the moment Silent Alarm hit the air waves back in 2005; got me instantly hooked. Yesterday I just got news that they’ll soon release a new single, called “Flux”, and apparently it didn’t take it too long to surface on the web. The song’s brand new, hasn’t been featured on any albums, just live shows. It’s actually a bit different from what BC accustomed us along the…

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Radiohead to release their new record “In Rainbows” next week

This is fucking massive gents! Not only did [tag]Radiohead[/tag] announce the tracklist and the title for their upcoming seventh album, but they shocked everyone by releasing it on such short notice, that means that starting from October 10 you can experience its magic. Here’s the spark that light the world on fire yesterday, a blogpost on the band’s Dead Air Space. Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it’s coming out in 10…

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Ryan Adams has meltdown at show

Ryan Adams has some very good live acts and he has pleased the people who came to his concerts many times. But Minneapolis is just not a good place for him to sing. A a few years after his last local meltdown he sang Thursday night at the State Theatre. But he complained about the sound monitors onstage and then he moved two monitors, his microphone and his guitar pedals. He was very displeased. The…

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Caribou kicks of North American tour and releases live EP

Daniel Snaith and his synth pop project [tag]Caribou[/tag] are set to kick off their North American tour, this very night (28 September). The tour will see Dan and co. playing through out Canda and the states every day for two months, until they reach Daniel’s hometown of Toronto, Canada. Also Caribous, during gigs, have been selling their latest “2007 Tour EP,” featuring a 30 minute epic mix by Daniel and 6 exclusive tracks. Tracklist for…

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Download: PJ Harvey – ‘The Devil’

[tag]PJ Harvey[/tag] is undoubtedly one of my favorite contemporary female vocalists, her  unpredictable vocals have always been a mystery to me. Her voice can switch from intimacy to anger as if on a hair trigger, a quality or better yet gift few artists posses and master. Now after 15 years of experience in the music industry Polly Jean released her eighth album this week, called White Chalk, in which she ditched her trademark guitar for…

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Jose Gonzalez: ‘In Our Nature’

Artist name: Jose Gonzalez Album name: In Our Nature Label: Mute Records Gender: Folk/Indie Release date: September 25, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.jose-gonzalez.com/ Two years ago, the back then unknown swede goldenboy [tag]Jose Gonzalez[/tag] amazed the entire world with his fabulous acoustic playing and Nick Drake like voice,releasing what was to be one of the finest album of 2005 in the form of Veneer. A Sony Bravia ad, featuring his extraordinary cover of The Knife’s…

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Paul van Dyk releases new tours dates

Toping the trance charts with this summer’s hit album In Between, the world renowned DJ Paul van Dyk has added a few more North American dates  to his album supporting tour, that began back in August.  If you don’t have the chance to see the recently #1 DJ, voted by the DJ Mag readers, live, then you can have a sip of the maestro by streaming “In Between” on his MySpace. Tour dates after the…

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J.Lo pregnant

The singer/actress is due to give birth in the spring, according to In Touch Weekly. That would not be such a striking thing.However, a rep for the couple is refuting the story, telling the New York Daily News: “Everyone calls about this every month with the hopes that they’ll hit the mark.” But In Touch does not go back and it remains faithful to the story. It looks like Lopez and husband Marc Anthony found…

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Mark Knopfler: ‘Kill To Get Crimson’

Artist name: Mark Knopfler Album name: Kill To Get Crimson Gender: Folk Label: Warner Bros. Records Release date: September 18, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.markknopfler.com/ For what concerns music history it’s just hard to talk about [tag]Mark Knopfler[/tag]. But when you think about it is harder not to talk about him. The man is a living legend and probably even more important is that his spirit is so young. He is a distinguished member in…

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Adultnapper – ‘Tewa’

Born in the never ending lights of Las Vegas and raised in the spirit of punk ruck, Francis Harris or better known by his stage name Adultnapper, proves that sometimes life grants us unexpected twists. In the case of Adultnapper, he went from hatting all that dance music represented, to now being a very well sought DJ/Producer by all the people in the Industry. Last month Harris released his first single, in a string of…

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