The New York based experimental quartet Battles played a free live show on Saturday August 16 before thousands at the Central Park Summer Stage. Supported by Gang Gang Dance and The Black Dice it was a noted departure from the Summer Stage’s typical line-ups through most of the summer. Furthermore, The Black Dice and Battles [...]
Queens Of The Stone Age are hosting a benefit show this Saturday (August 16th) at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. The show is to celebrate the life of Natasha Shneider, keyboardist and vocalist from the band Eleven. She also toured the world with QOTSA in 2005 to support their Lullabies To Paralyze [...]
From October 21st to 25th The CMJ Music Marathon And Film Festival will descend upon NYC again for it’s newest installment of the best up and coming bands of this year.
Last year saw artists like Santogold and Black Kids emerge from it’s underbelly and take the stage by storm, so who knows who’s going [...]
I know that Radiohead fans can go overboard in their effusive praise of the band but seeing them in a crowd of 25,000 when they are at their tightest is akin to a religious experience. Between their mind-blowing visual effects, constructing layers of sound, and putting together a killer setlist, no other band [...]
There’s nothing like perfect weather to get you in the mood for some kick-ass live music. When the blue skies and cool breezes are traveling across the bay and weaving through a New York City skyline in the distance, it almost makes you wish you brought that old t-shirt that says “Proud To [...]
Impeccably turned-out Scots Franz Ferdinand are streaming a brand new song on their website entitled Lucid Dreams. They claim this track is not a single, but sources believe that it is an intended song for their upcoming album which is set to be released in the first few months of 2009.
Hear ‘Lucid Dreams’ here.
The track [...]
Wilco at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington Delaware was concert going nirvana for me. Let’s run down the list of ingredients: 1) One of my favorite bands, who could easily sell out bigger venues playing 2) a small intimate venue that seats about 1,000 people. 3) Tickets were only available via the [...]
That zany LCD Soundsystem frontman, James Murphy, is at it again, bringing disco to the kids. The newest project from the man who blessed us with Hercules and Love Affair, is called Special Disco Version. James Murphy and cohort Pat Mahoney are embarking on a three month international DJ tour. The tour will consist of [...]
“If you want to rock, you know where to find us!” Pat Wilson, the drummer of everyone’s favorite college rock wimps Weezer, announced this week. The band have announced their first tour in three years in support of their latest album ‘Weezer’ (also known as The Red Album) which will span the whole country, from [...]
To support their new album, Only By The Night (coming out 9/23/08), Kings of Leon are kicking off a fall US tour at Webster Hall in New York. They previously released a song on NME called “Crawl” and have just released the first official single from the new album “Sex on Fire” on their MySpace [...]
