Sue first and ask questions later seems to be Gene Simmons, the legendary Kiss bassist and frontman, device in handling his business. At the recent MIPCOM convention in Cannes, France, Simmons was invited as a keynote speaker to speak about “branding” and how he managed to transfer KISS into a million dollar business, expanding the brand everywhere from guitars, to comic books, to condoms. “Make sure your brand is protected,” Said Simmons. “Make sure there…
Album name: The Suburbs Artist name: Arcade Fire Genre: Indie Rock Released: August 2, 2010 Label: Merge/Mercury ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: arcadefire.com A tremendous amount of hype has surrounded Arcade Fire since they released their self-titled EP back in 2004. By fusing bits of the Polyphonic Spree and Talking Heads and interweaving the more jaunty songs from Pavement’s back collection, Arcade Fire has been able to create a rather interesting, albeit exciting sound that jumps…
I’ve praised Chromatics on various occasions so far, and as always they’ve given me another occasion to do so. Their label, Italians Do It Better are issuing an expanded/ analog remastered deluxe editions of Chromatics‘ 2006 In the City 12″, as well as my personal favorite, the 2007 full length Night Drive. According to the IDIB blog, each re-issue will feature 5 brand new tracks, one of which is the slow-dance-pop jam “Circled Sun”, which…
I never thought Kanye West and Bon Iver can be pronounced together in a sentence, let alone a song. Seems like discrepancies and unlikely collaborations make up for a unexpectedly solid track – Lost in The World, a Kanye West production that heavily samples Justin Vernon’s 2008 eery autotune Woods. Yeah, you probably expected something like Justin spitting rhymes in the mic side by side with Kanye, but aside from it looking extremely awkward, that…
Duff McKagan, ladies and gents, former bass player for Guns and Roses and Jane’s Addiction, currently singing with Velvet Revolver and Loaded scraped together a list of 10 things that you should and shouldn’t do if you want to make it big time in the music industry. “I must say there’s really nothing I’d chance about my story thus far. But it may be helpful if I could dispense a few dos and don’ts to…
Seems like I’ve become more and more fascinated by NSFW material (I’m not even what would one call a porn aficionado), it just seems these kind of videos manage to resuscitate the viewer and transform an insipid band in studio video recording into an exiting, engaging and wild film. Sex can do that. I know little to nothing about the Barcelona one man band El Guincho, but the video for his latest single Bombay off…
Hailing from the snowy plains and peaks of Alaska, Olga Bell, or Bell as she goes by her stage name, is the latest electro-pop artist to come under my radar, and its signal is very, very strong. Then again, I just recently came across her music, but she’s been gaining praises and attention from the blogosphere’s finest since 2008’s self released six track “ep”. Now, expanded to a full three piece, the band is planing…
Deerhunter’s forth full length studio album will be out next Tuesday, September 28th on 4AD. Until its release date, you’ll be able to stream the whole album in its entirety via NPR.org on the stream below. I’ve played it twice so far and I find it to be incredibly atmospheric and well textured. Moody, hazy and ultimately memorable, this might just be Deerhunter’s best album to date, and most definitely the band’s most accessible record…
In a recent talk with BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat, Elbow frontman Guy Garvey lashed out on people who can afford to buy music, but choose to rip it, saying they’re “going to hell” for it. “If you genuinely can’t afford music then of course you’re going to rip it. If you can afford it and you don’t pay for it then you’re going to hell and you’ve got your own room. Especially when it’s a…
Yet another video from Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, this time for “Bluish”, and as one might except it’s got copious amounts of blue. Yeah, blue bubbles, blue smoke, blue cosmos, blue dancing exotic dancers and, of course, big blue eyes. You can check out the video below for the YouTube stream or directly at the Animal Collective homepage for some nice, crisp HD quality.
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