If you’re planning a trip down under for a few Pavement reunion gigs next year, you could leave a bit early and possibly hear some new material from Joanna Newsom at the Sydney Opera House, Canberra’s Playhouse Theatre, or three other fancy venues...
“Why wouldn’t Preservation Hall do a project with Tom Waits?” mused Ben Jaffe, musical director and son of Preservation Hall founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, in a 2006 piece on the post-Katrina New Orleans music scene in the NY Times.U2’s the Edge...
According to a report by This Is Wiltshire and eyewitness accounts, Morrissey was rushed to the hospital tonight in Swindon, England after collapsing on stage. While finishing the opening song, "This Charming Man," Morrissey reportedly knelt down,...
Anyone with an Internet connection has probably heard plenty about Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s pre-demolition run of shows at Giants Stadium in New Jersey earlier this month, but if the blogospheric explosion of truncated streaming vids...
Jack White’s “Third Man Records and Novelties” pop-up stores have made stops in New York City and Los Angeles so far, but the Jack White circus had yet to venture across the Atlantic… until now.On Oct. 30 and 31, the Shoreditch Church in East...
If there's anything to learn from the über-hyped unveiling (early iTunes leak, dropping the first single via 1-800 number, etc.) of Arcade Fire's last album Neon Bible, it's that a new record from the Montreal-based conglomerate is surely an indie...
Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld was forced to announce the cancellation of the band’s Pick Up The Phone tour today because he’s been hospitalized for an “extreme mental anxiety attack.” Ticket refunds for the tour, which was set to make...
As we mentioned recently, Phish have launched a teaser site displaying all the possible albums the band might play as a “musical costume” for their traditional Halloween cover album set. At that time, surprising nominees included Arcade Fire’s...
As we previously reported, many famous rock musicians and a songwriter for Sesame Street were outraged late last year when news broke that their music had been used to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay. Whereas Drowning Pool’s Steve Benton said it...
Before we get to our usual bits, here’s what the music news beast will be chewing on for most of today.Paul McCartney announced the “Good Evening Europe Tour 2009” on his official site, which kicks off in Hamburg, Germany (where the Beatles cut...
I was a little late to the Fionn Regan party, I’ll admit, but when I heard he was working with Ethan Johns (probably my favorite producer/engineer/drummer) I started following his MySpace page like a hawk, waiting to hear the follow-up to his...
Sure, Kim Gordon’s prints may be available in a few upcoming coffee table books, but wouldn’t you like to hang an original “Dude War,” “Noise Nomads,” “Pussy Galore,” or “Failing Lights” painting by a Sonic Youth member above your bed? What if I...
While U2’s Bono and the Edge are still prepping their Spider-Man musical, Green Day’s American Idiot musical is finishing up its run in Berkeley, and Regina Spektor is penning songs for an upcoming Sleeping Beauty adaptation, a couple of hip-hop...
Only a few weeks after Bob Dylan announced the release of his holiday album, Christmas in the Heart, former American Idol runner-up David Archuleta announced the upcoming release of his Christmas record, coincidentally (or was it?) titled Christmas...
Now that Wilco has taken all the proper album release steps (touring, late night television, internet interview invasion, etc.) and the well of Wilco [The Album] puns has finally run dry, Jeff Tweedy and company are ready to bang out Wilco [The...
Producer/drummer Ethan Johns was an integral player in the alt-country rags to riches success story of Ray LaMontagne: the pair met while recording a publishing deal demo for Chrysalis, which spawned a major label bidding war over LaMontagne’s first...
It's common knowledge that baby-faced crooner Michael Bublé enjoys borrowing other people's songs for a little Sinatra-esque cover version, but has the 30-year-old boy next door taken to borrowing album covers as well? That's what the Smashing...
We’ve been waiting with bated breath for a trailer or still image from the upcoming John Lennon biopic, Nowhere Boy, but nothing has hit the Internet until today. We finally have the poster and a look at young actor Aaron Johnson’s depiction of a...
The writers of “The Simpsons” claim they are “tired, and frankly, too rich to care anymore” about making up new characters for the show, so they’re offering a chance for anyone to design a new character to appear on an episode featuring Coldplay’s...
Trent Reznor married his fiancée of five months, Mariqueen Maandig, this past weekend. NIN collaborator Danny Lohner first broke the news on Twitter by posting a blurry picture of the couple dancing after tweeting earlier: “goths the world over will...
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