Grimes reveals new song ft. Blood Diamonds: Go

Grimes Source The electronic experimental Canadian artist, Claire Boucher, best known by her stage name, Grimes, just released a new song that features Blood Diamonds which was actually written for Rihanna. It seems that Go is the artist’s summer jam, as she describes it in a statement: It’s our summer jam so we figured we should put it out cuz I am very bored of waiting to finish my album b4 releasing new…

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Stephin Merrit ‘scratches’ Peter Gabriel’s back

Last year the legendary former Genesis lead-vocalist, Peter Gabriel, released a very interesting cover album titled “Scratch My Back”, recorded at Air Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during the same year, consisting of Gabriel covering twelve songs by various artists, using orchestra and voice rather than normal rock instruments. The album will get released on  February 15 via Virgin and will feature Peter Gabriel sing his version of songs by artists like Arcade Fire, Radiohead,…

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2007: the year of reunions and more …

“They just kicked out another band member? Is there anybody left?” “What in the name of all that is good would possess him to move in with Courtney Love?” “Is THAT really metallica?!” “So they are finally releasing Chinese Democracy…. again?” These questions say a lot about recent years, as well as this one, in music. We could not think about one to sum it up as it was an amazing year, musically speaking, from…

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New Music Monday: 26 November

The holidays are just weeks away and this also reflects into poor releases, being that special time of the year when new records are kept to minimum, but not necessary in quality. Shinning this week is indisputably the invigorated [tag]Kylie Minogue[/tag], with her latest 10th album, suggestively titled “X”. [tag]Genesis[/tag] and live got well together, so the band’s latest record “Live Over Europe” should please a lot of fans. Ireland’s most famous boy band [tag]Westlife[/tag]…

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Live Earth: London full coverage

[tag]Live Earth[/tag] London, the biggest concerts in terms of names in my opinion, started a mid-day at the fabulous Wembley Stadium.The Festival’s openers were a group of all stars drummers, composed by the likes of Taylor Hawkins from the [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag], Chad Smith from [tag]Red Hot Chili Peppers[/tag] and Roger Taylor from [tag]Queen[/tag] all backed up by a orchestra of drummers titled SOS Allstars. Their performance was overwhelming, with extraordinary drumming, while images and clips…

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