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Jose Gonzalez goes ‘green’ on upcoming tour + gets nominated for PLUG awards

This spring sees everyone’s favorite troubadour, [tag]Jose Gonzalez[/tag], embark on a eco-friendly tour, in partnership with Reverb, a non-profit organization designed to educate and engage music fans and promote environmental sustainability. They work closely with artists to create earth-friendly events and tours. Part of Gonzalez’s ‘greening’ is his rider will include biodegradable catering products, and a reduction of plastic water bottles will be facilitated by providing his crew with re-usable water bottles to carry throughout…

Foo Fighters to perform with talented fan at the Grammy’s

The 50th edition of the famous Grammy Awards is just one month away and for the their performance, the alt-powerhouse of [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag] have something special in mind. Meaning they’ve partnered with YouTube to launch a fan contes in which contenders will have to upload a 60 second video that consists of them covering The Pretender with orchestral instruments. That means no guitar, no bass, no drums just string, woodwind and brass players are invited…

Lenny Kravitz reveals new album tracklist

[tag]Lenny Kravitz[/tag]’s latest effort lands early next month and it’s tracklist has just surfaced, recently. The new record, titled “It Is Time for a Love Revolution,” spreads across 14 tracks including the already first two announced singles “Bring It On” and “I’ll Be Waiting.” After some early sampling the record sounds terribly promising, a real treat to start off the new year. The album is out February 5.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds provide new details for ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’

Here’s a feature about [tag]Nick Cave[/tag] we know you’re all gonna dig, after all with a hip name for Nick and The Bad Seeds’ forthcoming 14th album like “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” you can’t go wrong. The official tracklist was reveled just recently, as well with a US release date of April 8, one month after Dig lands on UK soil on March 3 via Mute. The first single is set to be title track (I’ve…

R.E.M. climb a shift and ‘Accelerate’

The legendary Athenian alt-rock trio of [tag]R.E.M.[/tag] have recently announced the title and release date of their forthcoming 14th LP. According to Billboard the album, recorded in Vancouver and Dublin and produced by Jacknife Lee, will be titled “Accelerate”, and should be out on April 1. Those of you who may still feel the bitter taste of R.E.M’s lethargic rhythm in the band’s previous album Around The Sun, can somewhat stay at ease, as the…

Radiohead with a new year webcast + YouTube’s first ever full length concert

A big happy new year, for all you faithful readers, is in order for this first post of 2008; without your constant support we probably couldn’t have found the motivation to go on with our work. Anyway after a few days of hard drinkin’ well deserved rest, we’re back on the saddle and it seems like the band we’ve blogged the most in the past year is still here to stay. Yeah folks [tag]Radiohead[/tag] recently…

Rivers Cuomo: ‘Alone – The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo’

Artist name: Rivers Cuomo Album name: Alone Label: Geffen Gender: Alternative/Geek Rock Release date: December 18, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.riverscuomo.com/ As the frontman for the cult phenomenon band [tag]Weezer[/tag], Rivers Cuomo has always managed to form a pop eccentric image and most of all a dictatorial presence in the band, as it’s widely known he says what goes and what doesn’t in the geek group. He’s a perfectionist in nature, proved by the fact…

The Whigs: single stream and album art

Athens, Georgia garage rock band The Whigs, came under my radar 1 year ago, when the southern duo, back then a trio, were featured on Rolling Stone as “possibly the best unsigned band in America.” A righteous claim I might add, considering they’re surprisingly talented, mixing a blend of late 60’s garage rock and contemporary indie music. Time passed and they eventually got signed by ATO Records, that helped re-release their initial interdependently recorded debut…

Interview: Simple Plan

Recently we had the chance to have, a really short but concise, e-mail conversation with Jeff Stinco, the lead guitarist from Montreal based punk-pop quintet [tag]Simple Plan[/tag]. We pondered Jeff with a few questions, about the band’s new album, sound, new video and their upcoming 2008 tour and he was gracious enough to give some interesting answers.

GN’R song causes mayhem at school

They have a way of staying in the center of attention even without releasing music or without singing at gigs or in fact without doing anything. What happened is that some teenagers were performing an impromptu after-hours karaoke that resulted in a police response. That was because she believed she was being threatened over the loudspeaker. State police say the teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself inside a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone…