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This just in from NME: Mexican guitar heroes Rodrigo y Gabriela, performing Thursday, September 25 at the Tennessee Theatre, have announced they will release a live album on October 20. Live In Japan is a two-disc CD and DVD set recorded at Tokyo's Duo Club on March 30 this year: their first-ever Japanese show.
In an MSNBC feature released this week, AC Entertainment President Ashley Capps and other festival producers discussed the growing trend of festivals that cater to all ages - from those in diapers to Baby Boomers and beyond. Read it online.
NORMA JEAN--who deliver the most furious, and yet melodic, music of their career with their new album THE ANTI MOTHER--will headline “The Anti Mother Tour” presented by Solid State Records. The six-week nationwide U.S. tour--with additional sponsorship from Hot Topic and Monster Energy Drink--kicks off Friday, October 3 in Knoxville, TN. NORMA JEAN will be joined by fellow labelmates Haste The Day, The Showdown, MyChildren MyBride, Children 18-:3 (October 3--October 26) and Oh Sleeper (October 28--November 15).
NORMA JEAN’s explosive fourth album THE ANTI MOTHER--which Alternative Press magazine hailed as “…the best record of their career” (September ...
Bono has called Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want experiment for In Rainbows “courageous and imaginative in trying to figure out some new relationship with their audience,†the U2 frontman says in a letter to be printed in the NME. The comments are in stark contrast to those made recently by U2’s manager Paul McGuinness, who said that Radiohead’s [...]
Madonna returns, Coldplay rock with Brian Eno, Mötley Crüe reunite, John Mellencamp gets dark and Nas shocks hip-hop. Rolling Stone presents the inside story on over sixty-five of the season’s must-hear discs. For the full report, complete with exclusive audio and video, click here.
Though the movie only converted one of its four Oscar nominations into a win, we should have known better than to assume that would stop the Juno juggernaut. The twee-beast's newest tentacle is a second soundtrack of sorts, this one featuring tracks from Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Kimya Dawson, Astrud Gilberto, Buddy Holly, and the movie's star, Ellen Page, playing a song written by Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Titled Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs, the Rhino release is a digital-only compilation of songs intended for but not used in the movie. Director Jason Reitman assembled the compilation ...
Well, today, we’re overcome with happiness to announce that Radiohead—yes, Radiohead—will be joining the new site’s Monday lineup with a special performance of In Rainbows CD2 banger “Bangers & Mash”, which the band recorded exclusively for the launch of Pitchfork.tv. Shot on Wednesday (as in two days ago!) in Nigel Godrich’s basement studio, this utterly kick-ass performance will serve as the site’s first-ever music video. Read and comment. From pitchforkmedia.com.
It’s been fourteen years since the New Kids on the Block shared a stage, but you wouldn’t know it judging by the crush of fans decked out in NKOTB jean jackets and tour laminates screeching with delight at the Today show plaza this morning. The now-thirtysomething boy band was bombarded by rain-soaked women dressed like [...]
New York’s movers and shakers ventured to Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights Thursday night to celebrate the opening of artist Takashi Murami’s exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum with a special performance by Kanye West. Host Louis Vuitton transformed the first floor into a high society gala while the exhibit, featuring over ninety Murakami (lauded as Japan’s Andy [...]
Providing further evidence that the digital medium has overtaken physical CDs, an independent study found that iTunes passed Wal-Mart in music sales during the months of January and February, making Apple’s service the largest music provider in the U.S. It was the first time in iTunes history that they topped the sales charts. The study [...]
Psychopathic monster Charlie Manson has released a new album, “One Mind,” under a Creative Commons license. Read and comment. From boingboing.net.
Kanye’s got his own blog, search engine, and travel agency. Trent Reznor’s got his own interactive remix community. And now Radiohead has its own social network. Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com.
“There’s something about the first time,” said Eddie Vedder, a few songs into his set at the Centre in Vancouver, Brtish Columbia. “Whether it’s good or bad. There’s nothing else like it.” For Vedder, this first time meant a sold out, two-night residency in a city not too far north of his native Seattle for [...]
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