There has been a barrage of oddly confusing news surrounding Prince over the last week. To offer a little clarity, and brevity, on the situation I will summarize in short sentences what everyone seems to be clamoring about (I fell asleep last night reading the Pitchfork article on this whole ordeal, so if you want [...]
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Big Black is certified anti-rock, and their 1987 root canal of a post-hardcore album, Songs About Fucking, is a direct, no-holds-barred, blunt object assault on the senses…that is, if the title didn’t give that away for you already.
When [...]
Bon Iver will be releasing a new EP to grace us all in January, his first outing since his widely praised debut LP For Emma, Forever Ago. The Blood Bank ep will hit store on January 19th in the UK/Ireland and will hit US shelves on the 20th. The album will be released on CD [...]
Premiere has released a list of what they are calling the 20 Punkest Films of All Time. Since this site is based on lists, I thought this was particularly appropriate. It’s not really an F10 list, but, for once, it’s not a bad list from Premiere, who has had some rather questionable lists in the [...]
The new full length release from Antony Hegarty’s Antony & the Johnsons has been in the works for a while now. News first emerged in the fall of 2007 when Pitchfork announced that they were recording a new album, and that it would be titled The Crying Light. While the release dates has been pretty [...]
Antony & The Johnsons
Another World EP on F10
Release Date: October 7, 2008
Label: Secretly Canadian
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With their newest EP Antony & the Johnsons strike a slightly more somber chord than they have in the past. Though that may be somewhat similar to claiming that one can of paint is a slightly grayer shade of gray. On [...]
New York’s Other Music, a great record store and online store, has posted a video of a recent in store performance of Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band. The film features four live songs from his afternoon performance and a short interview with Mr. Oberst talking about working without his producer, why his new [...]
In a recent interview with the BBC, Ray Davies announced that The Kinks are working on some new material in the studio. He has thrown together a collection of tracks that the group is going to play around with, potentially for a reunion album and tour. Davies has promised that this album would be more [...]
Not nearly as ridiculous as the video for Sex on Fire. You can’t go wrong with concert footage.
Ah yes, the election is here, and stories like this will be gone when you wake tomorrow, maybe.
What remains of The Ramones, and their benefactors, and family, have been publicly squabbling over the political bent of the bands legacy, in regards to the current election. Linda “Ramone” wife of the late Johnny Ramone, is palling [...]
