The boys are back, and they’re making a grand entrance with both a tour and an album; well, at least they promise they will. With over 10 years since their last studio release, fans are eagerly awaiting the album which is set for April 22, as well as their summer tour. They’re back in the headlines! It’s gonna be called Good To Be Bad and band members seem to be thrilled about it: “The album…
Things are definetly heating up around Def Leppard, as they have already released the artwork for their new album, “Songs From The Sparkle Lounge”. This is going to be their 14th (!) album, and promises a lot already. It’s set for April 29, containing 11 new songs. I found out how the cover for the album is going to look after reading the folowing statement, which appeared on the band’s official website: “After previously presenting…
My favorite release for this week, is “Saturnalia”, the debut album from behalf of two of the finest musicians of the ’90s: Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs), that together form The Gutter Twins. The two met for the first time in 1989, but it took them almost 15 years to make music together, as recordings for Saturnalia began at the beginning of 2003. Now, five years later, the album brings…
A compilation of Joy Division’s best songs, spanning across their two iconic album career, is set to for release sometime at the end of March. The compilation is suggestively titled “The Best Of Joy Division” and will be comprised of two discs; the first features all the band’s hit singles, while the second will feature an interview with the band’s late singer, Ian Curtis, and drummer Stephen Morris, conducted by Richard Skinner. Besides the interview,…
The pop rock quartet, that swept away all the possible pop charts last year, with their intimate love song “Hey There Delilah,” from the band’s third effort All That We Need. Now Plain White T’s have announced that their hard at work writing songs for their upcoming, yet untitled, album and that they’ll soon hit the recording studios in spring. Here’s what the band’s frontman Tom Higgenson had to say about it: “Yeah, there’s actually…
That’s right mates, Radiohead is no longer just a noun, it’s also a verb now! It means to offer your CD up as a digital download on the Internet and then ask your buyers to pay how much they think it’s worth it. While Radiohead did manage to create a phenomenon in this music industry, it’s still unclear how this strategy will affect them long term. But one thing’s for sure: record labels should…
Justin Vernon or Bon Iver, as he’s better known in the indie music community, made a lot of waves, towards the end of last year, with his independently released debut album “For Emma, Forever Ago.” The intense passion and soul of the album can be sensed from the very first listen, probably because it was truly an album centered around a man’s quest for finding himself. Isolation and sorrow are of the album’s themes, probably…
After releasing their latest album, ‘Echoes, silence, patience & grace’ now they’ve launched a world tour to help promote. In fact they are already on the road and they’re hitting the Forum in Inglewood, California in the next two days. The band will be off to Canada, Japan, Australia and then Europe for most of the spring before returning July 9th in Seattle to start their summer dates. The past year has been quite good…
Some of you may remember when we wrote, in our Bands to Watch feature, about a nifty and emerging St. Louis pop-punk band, called Ludo. Their latest record “You’re Awful I Love You,” hit every respecting store on February 26th and was quickly embraced by their fans and new listeners alike. Recently I had the chance to have a short chat with two of the band members, frontman Andrew Volpe and synth master Tim Convy,…
Yesterday night “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” had none other the Chan Cat Power Marshall as its performing guest. The she sang a more then honorable rendition of Frank Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York,” song also present in her Jukebox covers album.
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