Horehound by The Dead Weather wasn’t as good an album as some would make you believe it to be but it had its moments, like I Cut Like A Buffalo, the sound of Jack White almost rapping some blues over a tight music arrangement. The band have recently put out a video for the song, [...]
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So, a couple of days ago I had the most dumb idea in the world. After reading some posts made by Zoë Keating and Amanda Palmer on their own respective blogs. I kinda had the idea that I could summarise the issue of ‘what artists need to do to survive the music industry’ in a [...]
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From the moment it was announced, it was quite clear that the Fame Kills tour, a co-headlining jaunt between Lady Gaga and Kanye West, would be plagued with headlines and press attention all over the shop. In a way, it was asking for a sudden cancellation. Yup, Live Nation have announced that the tour is [...]
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So, Julian Casablancas then. It’s fair to say that I’ve been pretty sceptical of how his solo career would fare. He’s not exactly one of the world’s most inspired lyricists (for example, the clunker that was ‘Don’t be a coconut/God is trying to talk to you,’ on Ask For Anything off of The Strokes’ third [...]
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You may remember the band Battles, they who created the exuberant, complex, and downright brilliant Mirrored back in 2007. Well, via We Listen To You, I’ve managed to find videos of three completely new songs that they’ve been airing live. Much to the delight of every admirer of the band, the songs are very Battles-esque [...]
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The Internet once again exploded last week with the news that Thom Yorke has spent time in Los Angeles forming a new band to play his solo material. However, it kinda calmed down very quickly once they stopped freaking out at the headlines and read the story itself, followed by expressing disdain at the recruitment [...]
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2005 was a great year for albums in this decade – possibly the best – and there are many albums that I could have picked to represent that year. This, however, is almost in a league of its own. At the time that Demon Days came out it had been four years since Gorillaz, the [...]
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A change from the norm this week, as I select some videos from bands that have been featured on The Musical Chairs so far this year.First Aid Kit – You’re Not Coming Home Tonight (Live): Detektivbyrån – Om Du Möter Varg (Live):Three Trapped Tigers – 1 (Live):
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It seems that right now everyone is going collaboration crazy. In this week’s NME there’s a joint interview with Ian Brown and Jay-Z, which possibly outweirds Jay-Z’s friendship with Coldplay’s Chris Martin. There’s also the news that Brown and multi-band guitarist Johnny Marr are making a soundtrack for a TV show, and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke [...]
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You may remember right at the end of last year, just as I had packed up the blog for the Christmas break, that Warner removed all videos from artists from all their labels off of YouTube, owned by Google, over a row about money. I bet their Christmas parties were a great deal of fun! [...]
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Recently, Compare Download did a survey of the idiotic Great British Public (3000 18-60 year olds) about spending habits and music and the results were published today. Drowned In Sound listed the most interesting points from this survey (of which, there are many): The average Brit will shell out an average of £10,000 across a [...]
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The will she/won’t she quit the music industry talk that swirls around Lily Allen continues to be a talking point, despite the fact that this piece of news pretty much put a partial full-stop to it. The singer, who has gotten herself involved in ISP-gate before quitting the debate because of one or two comments [...]
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Muse first arrived on the scene in 1999 when they released their debut album, Showbiz. Between 1999-2000 the band were touring themselves to death, playing every country and booking slots at almost every festival imaginable in order to spread the word. Whilst they were touring, the band were starting to get experimental in their songwriting [...]
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The Welsh indie pop outfit Los Campesinos! have announced a one-off show next year at the grand old venue of Koko in Camden, London. The show will be among the first few shows playing with new member Kim (on vocals and keyboards) and their gig on the 25th February is onsale now. The band explain [...]
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This is the third time that I’ve seen Slow Club but the first time as a headlining act (the previous times were supporting Tilly & The Wall at ULU last year and as part of The Great Festival last May). After two sets that were aimed at winning over new fans, I thought this was [...]
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Richard Hawley has come a pretty long way since the days of playing alongside Jarvis Cocker in Pulp. He’s now established himself as a credible solo artist and has also found time to help friends Elbow on their last album by contributing vocals and guitar to album cut The Fix. The Sheffield singer songwriter, much [...]
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A week after she ’started’ a debate about illegal file-sharing and started her own campaign and set up her own blog…she’s decided to quit music. That’s what you when you want to take a stand – shout your mouth off in a blog post and then step back from the ‘debate’ altogether but safe in [...]
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Music blogs have had a funny old effect on music in this decade (or at the very least, the latter half of the decade). They’ve practically turned into another portal altogether for new bands to be heard and has, in effect, created a completely new hype machine. Bands now have reputations built by people who [...]
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Lawyers for Apple and Eminem are currently embroiled in last-minute talks as the iPod manufacturer tries to avoid a court date with the Detroit rapper. The crime that is allegedly being brought against Apple is that they wrongly made as much $2.5 million for unauthorised sales of Eminem’s songs, and there are 93 songs in [...]
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What I’m about to say is probably going to sound incredibly dubious and possibly naïve for someone who writes about music but sometimes when you read a band name before any of their music it’s very hard not to have preconceptions. Either you will wince at a name because of its terribleness or the connotations [...]
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