By Andy on Thursday, April 30, 2009 Filed Under: mp3s, reviews
Jump Back Jake
Brooklyn Hustle/Memphis Muscle
Release Date: December 19, 2008
Label:Ardent Music
F10 Rating:
It’s hard to keep a good record label down. After over a decade with a very successful Christian rock music, Ardent Studios – the name behind the emergence of 70s power pop band Big Star and haven for many a classic recording session – [...]
By Dustin on Thursday, April 30, 2009 Filed Under: mp3s, new release
John Vanderslice is sharing a brand new track from his forthcoming Romanian Names album. The single is called “Too Much Time”.
Romanian Names will be released in May and they’ve just announced that a special edition of the album is available to the first 100 people to pre-order through the Dead Oceans website. The special edition [...]
By Dustin on Thursday, April 30, 2009 Filed Under: videos
Check out the video for “Fresh Blood,” the first single from The Eels forthcoming album Hombre Lobo, which will hit shelves in June.
By Dustin on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Filed Under: new release, tour dates
We’re crawling up on the release of the newest Sonic Youth album, The Eternal. With that in mind Matador is a special Sonic Youth installment of their Buy Early Get Now series. You preorder the album and you get a bunch of extra shit that’s pretty great. With the Sonic Youth preorder you get:
- April [...]
By Dustin on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Filed Under: live, videos
Pitchfork’s most recent installment of One Week Only features a recent Leonard Cohen concert from London. It’s stellar and you should be watching it. The caveat? As you might have guessed, it’s only available for a week.
By Dustin on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Filed Under: random
I’ve probably mentioned it more than once in these musings that I’m a total sucker for lists. I love to hate them, and I can’t help but notice and read through the musings of others (whose opinions may or may not be valid) when they construct such a list. It’s really one and the same [...]
By Dustin on Monday, April 27, 2009 Filed Under: live, videos
["Your Late Night Fix" collects the best of the bands performing live on TV from last week. Dig it.]
Bat For Lashes on Jools Holland:
Prince does “Crimson and Clover” on Ellen (weird, in more ways that I can really describe right now):
More oddities after the jump, including: Depeche Mode, Lily Allen, Antony & the Johnsons, The [...]
By Dustin on Monday, April 27, 2009 Filed Under: Featured, mp3s, new release
1. Michael Gordon, this past week, released his incredible composition, “Trance,” for free online. Though, there is a catch – he’s split the piece into seven parts and made it a scavenger hunt. He did this in promotion of Signal performing “Trance” at (Le) Poisson Rouge this past week (they will be performing it again [...]
By Dustin on Thursday, April 23, 2009 Filed Under: Featured, tour dates
The 2009 Lollapalooza lineup has been announced, and it is full of giants, great new acts and probably a good handful of acts you’ve never heard of. The festival will be taking place August 7-9 in Chicago’s Grant Park. The full lineup can be found here.
Here is a taste of what you will see:
Depeche Mode
Tool
The [...]