Paste Magazine is reporting that Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon refuses to stop working. In January of 2010 he and Chris Rosenau of Collections of Colonies of Bees will be performing a live score to Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush.This will be interesting. Will it be as quirky and laughable as other scores to Chaplin [...]
Conor Oberst made his name on Bright Eyes, to many people, no matter what he does, he is Bright Eyes. But Oberst had been quoted in last month’s Rolling Stone as saying, “It does feel like it needs to stop at some point. I’d like to clean it up, lock the door, say goodbye.” Now [...]
The yearly award judged by British music critics and industry types that tells everyone what the best British album of the year is, or a decent album you should get if you don’t own it already, has announced the shortlist. Frequently the Mercury Prize seems a little crazy. There are always a few big names [...]
Today the legendary hip-hop act made an announcement that they are going to be taking a brief hiatus while the band deals with the news that Adam Yauch has been diagnosed with cancer. (more here) The band have canceled all planned tour dates and won’t be doing much for a little while.
The band was planning [...]
An announcement, posted yesterday, at The Rapture’s blog has announced the departure of the band’s bassist/vocalist Mattie Safer. In reality he’s been gone for months now, but the band has been a little inactive as of late. keyboardist Gabe Andruzzi wrote the post and said, “We are sad to see him go but it seems [...]
So, it’s happened. We’ve crossed the half way point of 2009. The year no longer seems fresh. It means a little more when someone tells you that Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, or Andrew Bird is the best album of 2009. And it’s time for that great music journalist past-time, list-making. Ah, the great lists that [...]
Indie-pop star Jens Lekman has contracted a case of swine flu, according to a post on his blog, and the canceled shows…from his blog:
I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it’s called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue.
I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was [...]
We’re going to try out a new weekly piece here at F10. We’re going to do a little compiling of ticket and album giveaways that you can enter. Because the recession calls for piles of free shit, and we want to help you get it.
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Pasta Primavera is giving away Hockey’s album Mind Chaos on [...]
He may not have had much follow through any time he’s said we’ve seen the last of the Nine Inch Nails, but Reznor appears to be pretty serious about this. The NIN luminary is logging off web 2.0, for good. In a post at the NIN forum Reznor sounds off on his view of why [...]
Oh holy shit. Music World, this is the time once every three years where you go totally fucking berzerk. Radiohead has announced that they are in the studio working on a new album. And everyone is speculating on what they are up to, what it will sound like, how they will sell it, what color [...]
