[The Score is an occasional column about what it's about, this time]
For your listening pleasure, should you have missed any of these great downloads this week, I’m compiling a list for you to look back, appreciate, and get some great free albums / EPs / singles.
1. This is a rare one. Kjartan Sveinsson (keyboardist in [...]
Blur just shocked audiences by performing live at the NME Awards. This marks the first time the group has performed together in nine years. You can see footage of the performance here (embedding of this video has been banned).
This performance gives a little gives some credence to the ongoing rumors that Blur may actually be [...]
NPR is streaming the recent Leonard Cohen live performance from Beacon Theatre in New York. The show marked the first Cohen live date in the US in sixteen years. The stream is a part of the ongoing All Songs Considered Live series. The set should be available as a podcast soon.
In other Cohen news he [...]
New Wilco. Always a good thing. They’ve previously announced plans to release a new DVD in April titled Ashes of American Flags. The DVD will be released early to indie-record shops for Record Store Day.
Rolling Stone and Wilco’s publicist have confirmed that the band have recorded a new album that is going to be released [...]
Leonard Cohen has gotten himself back on the map in a big way. From his sold out show in New York last week, to the announcement of his first tour of the US in 16 years. This week The New Yorker has published a new poem by Cohen. Very little of his writing has been [...]
Minnesota’s finest rap superstars Atmosphere and POS are going to be hitting the road side by side. So, if you need to get your aggressive, political, indie-rap fix the time is at hand, unless you’re on the east coast, then you’re SOL.
Tour Dates:
04-09 Missoula, MT – Wilma Theatre *
04-10 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory *
04-11 [...]
Super Furry Animals, that perennially under-appreciated group, are hard at work on a new album. Their newest project is going to be recording the recording process. The films are being made on home video cameras and are eerily reminiscent of Mike Figgis’ Time Code. (It is four cameras rolling in real time after all.) They [...]
Half of the Xiu Xiu machine is heading out on a solo tour. Jamie Stewart of the madness-inducing Xiu Xiu will be touring Europe on a solo trek. No official word if a solo disc is in store as well, but of course there is.
Xiu Xiu also just recorded a short set for They Shoot [...]
The new video for Beck’s track “Replica,” from his latest album Modern Guilt, is a beautiful low-fi replication of his life. It’s a fast paced video, with little else besides traveling, bright lights, cameras, and only a brief glimpse of Beck himself about 3/4 of the way through the video. It may take a little [...]
No, not me, Yours Tru.ly.
Your Tru.ly, a forthcoming web site of behind the scenes style video of indie-bands, premiered a two part piece on Cut Copy this weekend over at Fader. You may remember some Yours Tru.ly videos from the popular series on Waaves at Fader. The Fader article is actually kind of spot on [...]
