I’m really late with this, but I’ve been away in the Carpathian mountains this weekend for some serious hiking and had no chance to see it, let alone post it. Anyway, last Thursday Radiohead played its last gig off their ginormous In Rainbows tour in Santa Barbara, CA. The band ended the tour with an epic finale, after subsequently Liars gave me an awesome performance, as well. Thom Yorke and co. played an astonishing 25…
While on tour, playing in Auburn, WA, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood moved close to each other and started playing a “Faust Arp” duet, like they always do shows, however… this time Thom forget the lyrics. Anyway, after a series of jokes and ramblings around the matter, to escape this somewhat embarrassing moment, the band went on and played a beautiful cover of Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why.” Check out the video bellow as…
There’s always something about Nordic indie music that makes it special, it’s really like nothing else. The band there have a unique approach to how they play their music, successfully blending electronic elements with rock amalgams. A perfect example is the Swedish power trio Peter Bjorn and John, a pragmatic band that’s managed to make a name for themselves in the international indie scene thanks to their wild, reinvigorating live shows and typical Stockholm sound….
The 4 members of the band The Kooks
Alex Turner’s Arctic Monkeys are quite the workaholics, apparently, with a new record every year, or at least that’s what the band makes us think. After the 2006 extraordinary debut, and last year’s “Favorite Worst Nightmare”, the Arctic Monkeys are now preparing to head back to the studio to work on a new album, albeit chances for it getting released in 2008 are very slim. Joining them, however, on the new record is none other…
In what seems to be a great step forward for the Canadians, Nickelback reported they shook hands with legendary producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange on their 6th album, which they will start working on. Mutt Lange is best known for working with metal gods AC/DC on their Highway to Hell and Back in Black. He has also worked with Def Leppard’s landmark efforts Pyromania and Hysteria and Shania Twain, as well as Bryan adams and…
Noel Gallagher, the Oasis lead guitarist, semi-frontman and overall douche-bag, paid Zane Lowe a visit the other day, at the latter’s BBC Radio 1 show which he moderates. There, Noel talked about Jay-Z’s response to the Glastonbury scandel, as he listened to the Oasis dis song Jockin’ Jay-Z for the first time,’ stupid informed journalists who ask him about his latest album being leaked and also rudely jokingly encourages people to rip off other’s people…
Boys and girls, Vampire Weekend is back! No, chill, not with a new album, but a new MP3, in which the NY quartet masterfully cover Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere.” The song was recorded on a Australian Radio show and let me say they’ve done a terrific job, especially on the vocals department, where Ezra Koenig virtually made the cover stand out. The MP3 is bellow thanks to Pretty Much Amazing via P4K. [display_podcast]
Brian Wilson can be considered nothing less then an icon of contemporary music. He’s an awesome front-man, a very talented songwriter and let’s not forget he can drink you under the table and knows how to surf! Yup, a true legend, and we couldn’t have possibly not mention his upcoming solo album, “That Lucky Old Sun,” scheduled for a September 2nd release. Fan can listen to the whole album over at USA Today, where a…
We’ve been hearing a lot from Daniel Rossen this past year, with new music, TV & radio appearances with his main band Grizzly Bear, and now with his side project Department of Eagles, a folktronica duo, that he founded with his friend Fred Nicolaus. You can blame Grizzly Bear’s erratic performances all over the country and countless other musical collaboration for keeping Daniel away from DoE, but now he and Fred are back on the…
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