Head over to NPR Music and check out “Fuji-san,” Patti Smith’s latest release from her upcoming album Banga. “Fuji-san” is a heavy rock tune dedicated to the victims of Japan’s Tohoku earthquake. Smith fans should not be disappointed, as the punk legend maintains her raw and untamed yet paradoxically wise and poetic vocals. In fact, Smith [...]
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Listen: Patti Smith – “Fuji-san”
The Cribs premiere interactive video for “Glitters Like Gold”
Today UK-band The Cribs premiered a new video for “Glitters Like Gold,” the latest single from In The Belly of the Brazen Bull. With a purposefully grainy picture and “fisheye” performance shots, the video has a very mid-late 90s feel
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Planet of the Apes & X-Men First Class Sequels Land In 2014
20th Century Fox have announced today that a sequel will be coming to last year’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, with a release date of May 23rd, 2014. The film will be titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which is bad news for those hoping for ”Planet of the Apes – The [...]
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The xx Announce New Album ‘Coexist’
The South London lo-fi outfit, The xx have released the first details of their new album. Entitled Coexist, the record will be the first since 2009′s Mercury Music Prize winning debut, xx. The band’s sophomore LP was recorded between November 2011 and May 2012, with Jamie xx set to take the helm as producer once [...]
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Dan Deacon Announces New Album, Offers Free Track
Last night on his Facebook page, the spastic-electro artist Dan Deacon announced a new album is in the works. After composing the soundtrack to last year’s Twixt, Deacon is back to work on his solo career. The new album, titled America, is expected to drop August 28th via Domino Records. In the meantime, Deacon is [...]
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The Underground: Aurora – Vertigo
Welcome to The Underground (or Notes from the Underground if you’re a Dostoyevsky nerd), a weekly segment in which I examine the very best in unsigned, undiscovered and underground music. It’s my goal to highlight and hopefully promote talented artists who have yet to receive the attention they deserve. If you know of (or are!) [...]
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Video: The Walkmen – “Heaven”
It has been a long while since I’ve been as enamored with a video as deeply as I am with Alex Southam’s video (produced by Pitchfork.tv) for title track to the The Walkmen’s new album, Heaven. That the “Heaven” video registers so profoundly is of little surprise to me. The Walkmen are, after all, a [...]
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PlayStation 4 Hasn’t Given Up On Disks
There’s quite a bit of gossip floating around in the world of next gen consoles at the moment, and all sorts of hypothetical middle fingers being thrown around by the big three of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. While only the latter has given away the full details of their next console – the Wii U [...]
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Bloc Party Announce Details for New Album ‘Four’
Way back in January of this year, Bloc Party frontman, Kele Okereke took to Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show to tell fans of the progress Bloc Party had made on their new album. The news wasn’t perhaps out of the blue, but with rumours of tensions between the band members, a fourth release was [...]
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Watch: Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
On the release of his new album Apocalyptic Love, guitar legend Slash descended from his marble, guitar-laden pillar in Heaven to step his leathery jeans in to New York’s Irving Plaza. In a show of good faith for those not lucky enough to attend the intimate show, the whole thing was broadcast online, and has since been made available on [...]
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Staff Picks: May
James Brightman Senior Contributor Artist: Paul Buchanan Album: Mid Air Comments: After an exemplary performance of the title track on Later…With Jools Holland, to say that I was looking forward to this album was an understatement. Now that I’ve got it, I can’t stop playing it. The album is like a series of black and [...]
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Review: Garbage – ‘Not Your Kind Of People’
Though I really do adore Garbage, it seems that all the lamented web hype over anticipation of the release of their fifth studio record, Not Your Kind Of People, might be a little too much about the return of Garbage and not necessarily the content of the record. I do understand the die-hard-fandom, trust me. [...]
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Mumford & Sons Announce Gentleman of the Road Stopovers
Mumford & Sons have announced a series of Gentleman of the Road Stopovers to be held this August in four carefully-selected locations across the States. The band has said these single-day, outdoor Stopovers will combine the intimacy of a community celebration with all the excitement of a world-class music festival. Look for the Stopovers to [...]
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Cosmic Suckerpunch Comes Swinging to Nashville
Before Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, TN begins, the neighboring city of Nashville gets numerous pre-festival performances from bands on the bill. With the couple weeks preceding so dense with Bonnaroo acts, it often yields challenging for concert-goers to determine which are actually worth checking out. Although towards the bottom of the lineup list, [...]
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FIDLAR to join The Hives on June tour + EP Stream
Up-and-coming SoCal band FIDLAR will be opening for The Hives this summer, on the heels of their new EP Don’t Try—an aggressive, yet melodic, four song outburst of danceable-punk wrapped in fuzz. This will certainly be one of the most raucous and entertaining tours of the summer, so get ready to sweat something fierce and prep the ice for the morning after. [...]
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Watch: Andrew Bird – Eyeoneye
Although still in the middle of an exhaustive tour, Andrew Bird has taken the time to release a video for Break it Yourself’s single, “Eyeoneye.” Premiering on Etsy, the video has an equally crafty appeal in what appears to be a makeshift felt world. Check out the video and tour dates below, and let us [...]
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Listen: Los Campesinos! – Tiptoe Through the True Bits
Today, Los Campesinos! are offering a new track, “Tiptoe Through the True Bits,” for free on their website. Playfully jabbing at Tiny Tim, the track was recorded at the same time as their recent Hello Sadness. But it is not a single. The band has stressed this on both their Twitter and in interviews. Recently [...]
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Garbage’s Shirley Manson Ejects Male Fan for Hitting a Woman
Halfway through the recently reunited band’s show at their Atlantic City’s House of Blues, lead singer Shirley Manson halted proceedings to chastise a male member of the audience for punching a female fan. The exchange lead to Manson ordering the fan to exit the gig. The incident occurred whilst the band were halfway through their [...]
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Folk Legend Doc Watson Dead at 89
The world has lost one of music’s acoustic gems. Yesterday, Doc Watson passed away after complications from undergoing colon surgery. He passed away at the age of 89 in Winston-Salem, NC. Known as the forefather of flatpicking, Doc Watson’s style was easily recognizable and iconic of a style of music he honed his whole life. [...]
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Stream: Delta Rae – “Fire”
With a unique and energetic rhythm, the up and coming group called Delta Rae are set to release their debut album, “Carry the Fire” on Sire Records. The six-piece group originally from Durham, South Carolina, sets their album up for great success with rich four-part harmonies infused with hints of blues, country, and rock. “Fire,” a [...]
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