I implore you not to accuse us of hating on Sir Paul McCartney or Lily Allen (the British tabloids have claimed their stake in that), but we do need to call these two out for a moment. As suggested above, they’re both chock full of benevolence...
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Noah Baumbach's apropos usage of Lou Reed's "Street Hussle" and Bert Jansch's "Courting Blues" in The Squid and the Whale should provide enough of an excuse to cover his next film on a music site, but I was all over the link to the Greenberg trailer...
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Ryan Adams and Mary-Louise Parker’s candid chat at the New York Public Library isn’t really news at this point, but the folks at the NYPL have brilliantly decided to share their “LIVE from the NYPL” series via free audio/video downloads and this...
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Still no release date yet for The Hot Sauce Committee Part I, but in a hopeful sign that Adam “MCA” Yauch is recovering well after having a cancerous tumor removed from his parotid gland, the Beastie Boy is back to work at Oscilloscope, the indie...
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When we announced upcoming appearances by the likes of Jenny Lewis, Ben Gibbard, Jackson Browne, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, John Doe, “and friends” for Tim Robbins’ WTF?! Festival in Los Angeles, I speculated that Mr. Gibbard’s said “friends”...
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Recently-unveiled Australian tour dates aside, news on Joanna Newsom can be hard to come by. That is, if you’ve limited your search to the music section of your local magazine rack/Borders/internet. Your favorite indie harpist with the most divisive...
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Julian Casablancas sure hasn’t been alleviating fears about the fate of the Strokes’ 4th LP in interviews of late, candidly admitting to “disagreement[s]” over “whether the songs are ready,” saying that “a band is actually a great way to ruin a...
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When a bearded Trent Reznor played his surprising unplugged set at Neil and Pegi Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in 2006, many people, myself included, were hoping he would bring the string quartet and piano into the studio for a Nine Inch...
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You'd think a living rock legend who has lost his voice and a political satirist/comedian wouldn't dare attempt a convincing musical performance, but there's truly something special about this clip. Not only does Stephen Colbert clearly have the...
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The latest music video from Depeche Mode’s Songs of the Universe was just uploaded to YouTube, and the band have gone from a somewhat NSFW video of a guy with a freakishly long tongue cleaning out his girlfriend’s pores to a trippy show that’s a...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a pretty funny movie and all, but it was actor Jason Segel’s hilarious original song “Dracula’s Lament” that truly brought the house down, IMO. Thankfully, that Segel-penned piece was only the beginning of what’s...
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Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, kicked off his first tour in 33 years on Sunday and numerous sources are reporting that the gig did not go smoothly. As the Irish Times notes, Islam’s first set of new and old songs at Dublin’s O2 arena went well,...
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and company sure know how to stir up some hype for her forthcoming album IRM, which is produced, co-written, and mixed by Beck. First, they dropped the title track for free (in exchange for an email address), then came a preview...
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I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this in the company of music writing colleagues, but I didn’t warm up to Beach House right away. Sure, it’s hard to hate on Victoria Legrand’s haunting vocals or the duo’s modest drum machine-driven rhythm section, but...
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News like this sure makes me wish I lived back on the East Coast: The surviving lineup behind not only two of my favorite Velvet Underground songs, but two of my favorite songs of all time, “Candy Says” and “Pale Blue Eyes,” are set to reunite for a...
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