Here’s some fantastic news from Vinyl Vintage News:Rolling Stone talked with Bruce Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau, to find out what the Boss does after two years on the road.First up is a deluxe box set of the 1977 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Much like the Born to Run box from 2005, the Darkness box will include a remastered version of the album, a documentary on the making of the L
2009 mtvU Wood Award Winners Woodie Of The Year - Kings of Leon After the release of their latest album Only By the Night it's hard to remember the Tennessee-bred Followill boys were ever tenuously linked to the Strokes. Long live the Kings! Best Video Woodie - Matt and Kim - Lessons Learned Directed by Taylor Cohen, Otto Arsenault The video for "Lessons Learned" opens with Matt and Kim c...
Who?Old-school punks Cock Sparrer may not have achieved the notoriety of peers like the Angelic Upstarts, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, but they've certainly lasted longer. Couched in working-class anthemry and catchy rock riffage, the band's classic cuts are as resonant as anything written by any of the bands above. And I Care Because?- Their brand of Oi! is couched in straight-laced Rock n'...
Last Saturday many concerned Americans watched in horror as the House passed the healthcare reform bill. If this bill makes it through the Senate, it would massively overhaul the way healthcare is delivered in this country. Today, obviously, we don't have a perfect system, but this legislation takes all the mistakes we are making with healthcare and makes them worse. Most of what is wrong wi...
The Bravery have a new music video out for "Sugar Pill." The video was directed by the band's bass player Mike Hindert, the same person who directed the band's previous chilling clip for "Hatefuck." The new album by The Bravery, Stir The Blood, comes out on December 1. Check out ...
We all still remember the troubled brilliance that was The Decemberists' latest effort 'The Hazards Of Love'. It was a huge record that propelled them further than any of their previous work had done before and was so cohesive, they even decided to play the entire thing, song-for-song, on their promotional tours.
A band that has been brandishing their pop chops in LA for a number of years now.Ushering in the weekend with a little NewFi from their 2007 release. The New Fidelity are:Billy Parkinson-drums-vocalsDan Perkins-lead vocals, guitarRoberto Escobar-bass-vocalsShawn Malone-guitar-vocalsR. Scott-keyboards Info from their myspace:Influences: Early Beatles, The Modern Lovers, Elvis Costello, Buddy...
Hoo boy, what an awesome late night grab bag we've got for you this morning. See, we normally don't to get to write about the Daily Show or Colbert Report despite the fact that they're the funniest late night shows. Luckily, though, they do in fact occasionally offer music. Though we slipped on Norah Jones's appearance the other night, both shows packed one hell of a musical punch last night...
If you follow this link here, you will be transported to the IClips website onto a page where you will have two options. The first involves money. As in if you pay them some money you can watch an entire Ween show from Red Rocks. The second option is to preview two songs from the show, namely, “Now I’m Freaking Out” and “Did You See Me?” You can access those by hitting the preview button
An interesting life, you cannot claim that Lydia Koch hasn't had one of these. Now aged 50, she has teetered on the edge of insanity, taken sexual partners from both sides of the gender divide, performed sex-acts for film, dallied with substance abuse, and then there's her friends.
Did you catch John Mayer on TODAY this morning? The guitar-strumming musician dropped by the morning show Thursday to perform a pair of tracks from his current fourth album, Battle Studies.Check out John performing "Heartbreak Warfare" from his new album "Battle Studies" which is selling like hot cakes!Visit msnbc.com for ...
There's something about Cincinnati that the members of Phish must love as they keep on coming back to the city for two-night stands. For an example of how good Cincy Phish fans have it, consider that The Queen City has gotten a total of seven Phish shows since Fall '99. During that same span, the only show in the Cleveland area was in Cuyahoga Falls on September 18, 2000. Quite the disparity w...
Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has revealed his former bandmate Paul McCartney has contributed vocals to the lead single from his new album ‘Y Not‘.Discussing the collaboration on the track, which is titled ‘Walk With Me‘, Ringo said: “I played him this track and Paul said, ‘Give me the headphones. Give me a pair of [...]
Off the bat, I should state that Jon Brion is a brilliant producer/composer, so I'm pretty excited about JB teaming up with Of Montreal again. Earlier this year, he leant his talents to the band for An Eluardian Instance AKA the Jon Brion EP. The disc featured Brion's reinterpretations of two songs from full-length Skeletal Lamping, "An Eluardian Instance" and "Gallery Piece," both of which wer...
Engineers - International Dirge (from Three Fact Fader) from Kscope on Vimeo.I listen to a lot of music, and I spend a lot of time searching for new stuff. And that's a great hobby, but every now and then I hit a dead spot where I can go for days without finding anything new that fits my taste.And then one day I stumble across a band, the freshness of whose music excites me and reminds me why I...
ALICE IN CHAINS have announced dates for a North American tour set to kick off at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on February 2nd. Tickets go on sale December 4th and 5th – fans can get more info at www.aliceinchains.com. The band is touring in support of its critically acclaimed ...
A clean-cut Pickering man admitted yesterday he attacked Noel Gallagher while the leader of British rock band Oasis performed in Toronto last year.Daniel Sullivan pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm against Gallagher, whose band was headlining at the Virgin Music Festival, on Toronto Island on Sept. 7, 2008."Sullivan managed to make his way up to the main stage area, run past the elec...
Ringo is putting out a new album due on the shelves January 12th called Y Not. Paul McCartney will be playing bass on a track called Peace Dream and sharing vocals with Ringo on the album's first singe called Walk With Me. Paul has not been on a Ringo record since 1998's Vertical Man. This will also be the first time in Ringo's career that he will also be involved with producing the album. Othe...