Massive Attack’s new video for “Saturday Come Slow” featuring Damon Albarn premiered last week on Feeder, but I wasn’t until recently that I found the time to post it. It’s actually more of a moving short-film documentary, telling the story of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ruhal Ahmed and his experience with torture through music – such a despicable way of instrumenting pain. [via feeder] This short film by renowned photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin…
“My Propeller”, the 3rd single off Arctic Monkeys’ latest album, the 2009 released “Humbug”, will get released next Tuesday. Until then though, I came across the B-side for the single, a brand new AM song titled “The Afternoon’s Hat”. I really like the somewhat nouvelle direction the band have taken with their new album, embracing a more confident and mature sound. Thank you very much, Josh Homme! [mp3 props to We All Want Someone to…
After two incredible albums, “Strawberry Jam” and “Merriweather Post Pavilion”, a lot of touring in between and beyond, and even the full length motion picture ODDSAC released at the beginning of this year, it seems Animal Collective has begun to show signs of growing weary. “There was just so much touring for us,” Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) told BBC 6 Music. “We’re not really road dogs. We were really happy with the record, so…
Album name: Plastic Beach Artist name: Gorillaz Genre: Gorillaz Pop Released: 3 March 2010 Label: Parlophone/Virgin ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: www.gorillaz.com ——————————– It appears that the the self-titled debut of Gorillaz was the induction of the 21st Century into the popular culture, ya know before all that nasty terrorism and war stuff. Its follow-up, Demon Days, was a reaction to all of the post-9/11 fallout, a record so full of wonderfully hyperbolic paranoia that it…
Beach House dropped by La Blogoteque’s latest live sessions outlet, the relatively newly added “Les Soirées de Poche,” where the band played the first five songs off their latest stellar album, “Teen Dream.” The elegantly performed set can be viewed bellow. You can shuffle through the songs by clicking the white dots in the player. Enjoy!
We’re just three months into the new year and already there are talks about the first major plagiarism scandal of the year, following last year’s now infamous feud between Coldplay and Joe Satriani. This time around the protagonists are Gorillaz and 80’s raggae sensation Eddy Grant, the later claiming Damon Albarn blatantly used significant portions of his song “Time Warp” to write the latest Gorillaz single “Stylo,” all without giving any credit. “My song sits…
Following The National’s previous two instant classics, “Alligator” and “Boxer”, the Cincinnati five piece will release their fifth studio full length titled “High Violet” on May 10th via 4AD. I know a lot of you are very curious, and anxious alike, to have listen to the new material, so I managed to find this great performance of High Violet’s opening track “Terrible Love” played by The National live just a few days ago on Late…
Seems like the whole iamamiwhowherehowthefuckami mystery has been unraveled once and for all, and the artist behind it all is quite the unlikely candidate, considering the whole blogosphere didn’t even mention her during the whole thorough teaser dissection process. The latest video proves it all, if you happen to have a pair of sharp eyes, revealing without a doubt once and for all that Swedish artist Jonna Lee and her band are responsible for the…
The SXSW week almost always coincides with modest releases, but this year it can’t get any better. The highlight of the week is without a doubt Drive-by Truckers’ highly anticipated eight studio effort “The Big To-Do”, which according to Patterson Hood is “very much a rock album. Very melodic and more rocking than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera.” Should be very interesting, to say the least. The Emmett Malloy directed rockumentary “Under…
Forget the Greatest Hits album being an obituary. Apparently there is no hiatus. According to Dave Grohl, he and drummer Taylow Hawkins “have already started demoing songs” for a new album. Oh, and the band is working with producer Butch Vig – ya know, the guy that did Nevermind. Better still, Grohl seems to think the new material “could be our heaviest yet.” Better still, the band will be recording in analog in Dave’s garage….
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