This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s.
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (Mint Records)
Hailing from the snowy Canadian plains, The New Pornographers shook everyone from the ground up when their incredible blend of contagiously [...]
Album name: The Great Disruptors EP
Artist name: Sweethead
Genre: Rock
Released: July 13 2009
Label: Strange Addiction
ZME Rating: 8/10
Website: sweethead.net
With PJ Harvey taking various detours away from her intelli-punk rock of old, Brody Dalle’s Spinerette sounding less like the Distillers than a slightly more modern No Doubt, and Courtney Love continuing to disappear into a putrid puddle of [...]
Artist name: Eagles of Death Metal
Album name: Heart On
Label: Downtown Recordings
Genre: Indie Rock/Glam Rock
Release date: October 28, 2008
ZMErating: 8/10
Website: eaglesofdeathmetal.com
The self-confessed Dream Boys have produced a third offering to remind us why Eagles of Death Metal are everyone’s favourite old school rock outfit.
Following the ludicrously superb Death By Sexy is no mean feat but [...]
First I was stocked by the new EODM album art, then I got really jumpy when the official video for the first single Wannabe in LA come up, but I finally got my copy of Heart On the day before yesterday I was really close to climax. I won’t go ahead with the actual spinning [...]
Although he’s been under some heavy critique lately, especially after that little Norwegian Wood incident, Josh Homme is still a more then capable artist, and last year’s Era Vulgaris more then proves that. However, QOTSA isn’t the only thing keeping him busy, as his garage side project with Jesse Hughes, Eagles of Death Metal, is [...]
Alex Turner’s Arctic Monkeys are quite the workaholics, apparently, with a new record every year, or at least that’s what the band makes us think. After the 2006 extraordinary debut, and last year’s “Favorite Worst Nightmare“, the Arctic Monkeys are now preparing to head back to the studio to work on a new album, albeit [...]
To celebrate their forthcoming Canada tour, the southern cal’ hard rockers Queens of the Stone Age, are set to release a “Limited Tour Edition” of last year’s ZME top 10 albums Era Vulgaris. The track will feature some awesome live versions of Era Vulgaris songs, as well as some of the band’s pre-Vulgaris songs. [...]
Photo by Matthew Field
As previously reported the Californian super group [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] was set to play a gig in the cold deeps of a German salt mine. The concert took place, in front of a small and intimate crowd, on November 20, where the band played live 700 meters underground. The initial [...]
The Palm Desert based [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] are back with a video, for their third single “Make It Wit Chu;” a sensual and sexual video, for a very passionate blues-like song. For those of you who are familiar with the Desert Sessions, then you probably know that the song has been featured for [...]
Your favorite prehistoric rock band, [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag], has just finished it’s short Canadian trek, but being the traveling sort they don’t plan on resting any time soon as they’ll soon embark on their European tour. Yesterday a pretty weird press release, announced that Josh Homme and co. will play 1 mile underground [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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