[Second Hand Gold is a weekly column about second hand purchases of rare or previously unheard of musical artifacts]
One of the greatest finds of my life was this fairly mediocre album. Three tracks and nothing worth commenting on within those tracks. But Bill Clinton Jam Session - The Pres Blows is one of those musical [...]
The four remaining members of The Grateful Dead are set to reunite on October 13th to play a show to show support and raise money for Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign.
Their official website states that Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann will join together again after the success of the ‘Deadheads For Obama’ [...]
Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison – great nephew of Alice Coltrane) had been garnering a little bit of attention with his debut album 1983 and his follow-up EP Reset, but with his newest release, Los Angeles, it seems that it’s time for Ellison’s breakthrough. Following in the tradition of fellow hip-hop/electronic based experimentalists J. Dilla, [...]
She And Him, also known as actress Zooey Deschanel and M.Ward, have announced that they will be playing a handful of West Coast dates this Fall in follow up to their successful US Tour and the 2008 release of their debut album Volume One
Deschanel - who is known for her movie roles, particularly in [...]
Here we go again. Black Francis aka. Frank Black has told the NME that there is a distinct possibility that The Pixies will get together again to record a new album.
“It’s just a waiting game right now. Whatever we do in the future is gonna have to be fresh.I have to see if the band [...]
In a post on her website, Björk has responded to another instance of journalists mis-crediting her compositions. The catalyst appears to have been an article in The Reykjavik Grapevine that, again, claimed that Valgeir Sigurðsson wrote all of the arrangements on Björk’s Vespertine album. She intends to set the record straight (and calls out Pitchfork [...]
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid have announced their fourth collaborative album in the last three years. NYC, the new album from Domino, will be released on November 18 this year. Hebden, best known for electronic work as Four Tet and Steve Reid, the vet jazz drummer who’s credentials are all over the board, are an [...]
Today Oasis announced that they are to play a one-off club show at Terminal 5 in NYC on Friday September 12th.
Their official website states that this will be a unique chance for fans to preview new material from their next album Dig Out Your Soul which is to be released on October 7th. Fans [...]
AC/DC are back after an eight year hiatus with new single Rock N Roll Train which premiered today on radio stations across the country. The new single comes from their upcoming album Black Ice which is avaliable exclusively from Wal-Marts and Sams Club (Pardon me?) on October 20th.
Anyhow, the new single doesn’t disappoint and [...]
Snow Patrol have announced the release date for their fifth studio album entitled, A Hundred Million Suns
The album comes out on October 28th in the US and is hoped to receive as much attention as their previous multi-platinum (seven times, yes, SEVEN) selling album Eyes Open that sold over one million copies in the [...]
