Talk about unlikely pairs, Elvis Costello and Fall Out Boy. He’s not the only one collabing with the emo stars, though, so the compromise isn’t that obvious. “What A Catch, Donnie,” is the Fall Out Boy’s third single, off their new album, “Folie à Deux,” that features cameos of various artists, playing Fall Out Boy songs. Other celebrities, featured as cameos in the song, include Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes (“Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down”),…
When one of my favorite DJs, Diplo, and one of my favorite contemporary rock bands, Radiohead, mix together, there can only be goodness getting out of the whole business. Diplo first posted a remix of Reckoner a while back, for the Radiohead Remix contest, now he just posted a final version of the remix down at the home of awesomeness, MadDecent. The end result is somewhat more satisfactory, but I’ll just leave you to the…
Marketing, Play Station 2 and rock music. Yup, two words: Guitar Hero. Now, with so many artists releasing their music in premiere or even in total exclusivity via Guitar Hero or Rock Band (rewind a bit to the recent Metallica/Guitar Hero/Death Magnetic scandal), it’s really no surprise that one of the biggest money wolves in the industry, The Smashing Pumpkins (read Billy Corgan), will soon release a three track single via Guitar Hero, which also…
Last year’s Oracular Spectacular was quite delicious, especially when on ‘shrooms, while MGMT’s video for Time to Pretend could either scare you to hell or strip and start dancing on the melody. The band’s new video for “The Youth” isn’t by far as trippy as Time to Pretend, but it’s very fun nonetheless. Directed Eric Wareheim, from Adult Swim’s “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” the video for “The Youth” features a few kids,…
As expected, Animal Collective is indeed rolling out a new album in January, in the form of the upcoming Merryweather Post Pavilion via Domino Records. The news that the follow-up to last year’s fabulous Strawberry Jam will be available starting from January 29th on CD, double LP, and digital formats, came the other day with the press release we received. If you’re curious about the recording process, it took place in Oxford, Mississippi’s Sweet Tea…
Ok, this is officially Oasis’ week. Everywhere I go, every blog, every podcast, mentions somewhere Oasis or the Gallagher brothers. Some part of me feels they deserve the hype, because this latest album is rock solid, a true comeback. However, the other part of me feels like this getting a bit overpretencious. Anyway, I laughed my ass off when I saw this heading on NME. Basically, in the article Liam Gallagher, one of the band’s…
With the release of their new video, the American quartet managed to break no less than 5 Guinness world records. Troublemaker is the second single from the band’s latest release, The Red Album, which is already stirring up spirits. An official from the Guinness World Records was there during the filming to see that everything is going acording to plan and the records are actually broken. But don’t think about anything classic, as few would…
Andrew Bird always struck me as an incredible songwriter, with a wide array of awesome songs spanned multiple albums, that could make even life long lived band envious. I mean, when someone releases a new internationally acclaimed album almost every year, for the last 10 years, at least, you know you’ve got true talent at your hands. Anyway, if any of you is interested in what our little Chicago troubadour has been up to lately,…
The Pretenders are back with a new album this week, in the form of “Break up the Concrete,” a fun, classic Pretenders record, that’s sure to delight any nostalgic punk (don’t give me any of that ‘punk’s not dead’ crap). Chrissie Hynde, which looks fantastic by the way (considering she’s in her late 50s!), and the rest of the gang stormed David Letterman’s Late Show with an awesome performance of “Boots of Chinese Plastic,” a…
Last year’s Strawberry Jam was definitely yummy! Quite scrumcious, if I may do so say myself. Actually, last year was an awesome one for the AC band members, since they toured a lot, released a very well received album, while Panda Bear also released a solo record of his own, the critically acclaimed Person Pitch. Let’s not forget about the new EP, Water Curses, Animal Collective rolled out back in May ’08. Now, these crazy…
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