When scouting for guests on the Flaming Lips' follow-up to 2006's At War with the Mystics frontman Wayne Coyne just picked up the phone. "For the Karen O tracks," he told Swiss website Die Klangschau, "I just called her up in her hotel room and we just did it right over the telephone. It's pretty absurd." The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman is expected to appear on more than one track on the album...
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What's better than that feeling you get when you find a forgetten five dollar bill in your back pocket? News that Radiohead are in the studio - for a week now - working on the follow-up to 2007's In Rainbows with longtime producer Nigel Godrich.Bassist Colin Greenwood described the initial studio session as "very noisy and chaotic and really fun" in an interview with BBC 6 Music. But before you...
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Over the weekend on-the-mend trainwreck Amy Winehouse took to the stage again at the 2009 St. Lucia Jazz Festival. The Grammy winning soul singer has been holed up on the Caribbean island working on the follow-up to her highly successful Back To Black album. After a slow start and as fans cheered in surprise, Winehouse, still sporting her trademark bee-hive up-do, skit-skated through "Know You ...
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Welcome to the land of rattlesnake guns, castles upon mountains of snow, and getting your space face on. In other words welcome to Dan Deacon world. This Long Island native's lyrics verge on the supernatural just as much as his spacey, hyper jams. While his latest BROMST is more instrumental than his breakthrough, 2007's Spiderman Of The Rings, tracks still transport the listener to the neverwo...
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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy responded yesterday to the lawsuit filed against him by former Wilco member Jay Bennett. Bennett is suing Wilco for royalties he says he never received for participating on epic Wilco albums "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "Being There." The damages are specified in the lawsuit as "at least $50,000." Bennett also wants the dough for having his face splashed all over the b...
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Tilda Swinton has an Oscar and now she's got a spot on Patrick Wolf's fourth studio album The Bachelor, out digitally on June 2nd. The goth-meets-electronica multi-instrumentalist and recent NYLON Records signee Wolf broke through with 2007's The Magic Position. On this new one, the first in a series of two albums that "narrate a story of pessimism regarding love" Wolf not only finds himself ma...
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For U2's latest "Magnificent" video, the band returned to the very spot they recorded the nugget off their twelfth studio album No Line On The Horizon - Fez, Morocco. Back in 2007 Bono and co. rented out a riad, a traditional Moroccan abode complete with interior courtyard garden, and converted it into a recording studio. For the "Magnificent" video, U2 teamed with "Get On Your Boots" director ...
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An east coast Dan Deacon Show is much better than a west coast Deacon concert. For starters they usually spell his name right out east. The marquee at LA troubadour read Dan Deacan.Missing were the motley crew of dressed up characters from Deacon's Baltimore art collective Wham City. Gone was the guy in the Tigger costume, the dude who always dressed as a capped superhero and the usual voyeurs...
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Chicago based folk rocker Joe Pug has toured with M. Ward, given a shout out on Twitter by The Office's Rainn Wilson, and compared to Bob Dylan on NPR. This past weekend Pug sold out to back-to-back shows at the Windy City's music shrine Schubas and is slated to hit some big fests this summer, namely Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and the Newport Folk Festival. He released his seven song Nation of Heat...
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Tinted Windows -- Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Hanson's keyboardist Taylor Hanson, Fountain of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, and Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos -- released their debut eponymous album a couple weeks back. Opening on the Billboard 200 at Number 59 the thing screams pop music, the type of music you'd find in a tween flick. Here's the second track from the album, ...
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