Conservatives and anti-Semites the world over must really hate Mel Gibson right now. Since the release of The Passion of the Christ, Gibson has been increasingly viewed as a figurehead for right-wing reactionary views, but Gibson has fucked up yet again. The Mad Max star has been caught on tape launching a profane, racist tirade directed [...]
Is there any band out there that is not set to reform? In the latest Reformation news, the news that the line-up responsible for Guided By Voices stellar 1993-1996 period is about to reform and tour for the Matador Records 21st birthday party in Las Vegas, leaves us wondering – are all bands eventually going [...]
We love Villagers and starting on June 1, NPR.org will stream their debut album Becoming A Jackal for one week, leading to the album’s US release on June 8. O’Brien, who will kick off a solo East Coast tour on June 17, performed a stripped down version of album track “Home” for Yours Tru.ly recently. [...]
The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, is a noted art enthusiast. So you can imagine his disbelief when he found out that a thief had broken his way into the Musée d’Art Moderne and decided to leave with five masterpieces – a Picasso, a Matisse and a Modigliani. But instead of casigating the thief for [...]
Not willing to face up to the fact that it was a complete dud, Axl Rose is suing his former manager Irving Azoff for allegedly sabotaging sales of comeback album Chinese Democracy. Elvis Costello has decided to join a cultural boycott of Israel by pulling out of his concerts there next month. Would it not [...]
The simple fact that the two of the most well-known PiL songs (‘This Is Not A Love Song’ and ‘Rise’) were the most tedious performances at the band’s first New York gig in aeons says it all. Playing to a highly reverent crowd, Johnny Rotten’s latest PiL are sonically punishing, spearheaded by Lu Edmonds glass-shattering [...]
Shortly after completing their recent tour with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Louisville’s My Morning Jacket will be taking their exhilarating live show back on the road this August. Sub Pop’s Avi Buffalo will be supporting the group for the San Diego date as well as their LA show at The Greek Theater. The run will also include [...]
While guitarist Peter Buck moonlights with Snow Patrol, the R.E.M. re-issue series continues apace with the re-release of Fables of the Reconstruction on July 13, reminding us of that time when the band were actually worth listening to. Recorded in London during the winter of 1985, the album was produced by Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, [...]
If Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis had not hanged himself 30 years ago today, how different would things be? Would the band be fresh from making a comeback at Coachella? Would we have been spared the unseemly sight of New Order: The Fat Years? Either way, we will never know. To commemorate the 30th anniversary [...]
Texas post-rockers, the aptly named This Will Destroy You, are heading out on the road after a successful European tour and recording their latest album which will be entitled Tunnel Blanket with producer John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, Modest Mouse, Chiarlift). You can exclusively check out their “Communal Blood,” which will also be available as a limited [...]
Evelyn Evelyn, the world’s only conjoined twin singer-songwriter duo “discovered” by Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls and renowned minstrel Jason Webley, have released their debut album and will be touring the US beginning May 17. For a taste of what’s coming to a theater near you, check out the videos of “Have You Seen [...]
Free Energy’s new video for “Bang Pop” premieres today exclusively on MySpace. Directed by Josh Nussbaum and produced by Ben Nabors, the video was shot in a middle school just outside of the band’s homebase of Philadelphia. Produced by DFA’s James Murphy, Free Energy’s debut album, Stuck On Nothing, is out now on Astralwerks/DFA Records. [...]
Spearheaded by Coldplay, the notion of middlebrow music has been ubiquitous since the early 00′s and amidst the genre’s offspring, Snow Patrol have been most successful, making a volte-face from shambling indie rockers to bombastic U2 wannabees. Their frontman Gary Lightbody has announced details of a new collaborative album entitled The Places We Ran From [...]
The phenonemally talented soul sensations Kings Go Forth have added more dates to their current US tour on the back of stellar reviews for their Luaka Bop album The Outsiders Are Back. The Miluwakee dectet have been hailed by the New Yorker as “so old-school that they are new-school” and are a truly astounding live [...]
Eat while you watch! You can now look forward to five days of fantastic food films (29 in total) giving you endess opportunties to gorge yourself on everything from pig’s blood popsicles (perhaps) to an entire evening devoted to oysters as this year’s NYC Food Film Fest takes place from June 23 until June 27 [...]
Following a successful tour supporting Train, the hotly-tipped Butch Walker & The Black Widows headline Webster Hall on May 20 supporting I Liked It Better When You Had No Hear. The album has earned Butch the best reviews of his career and a place as “one of America’s best singer-songwriters” according to Rolling Stone. Butch’s [...]
Iggy and the Stooges play a special pre-tour gig tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. If I knew how to get in, I’m sure it would be amazing. We Are Scientists are very proud to present the rules of partying… Following our praising of Ariel Pink and his gig at the Mercury Lounge, you [...]
M.I.A. has proved herself to be somewhat of a trailblazer as it seems somebody is finally taking the ginger menace seriously. The controversy which has erupted over her Born Free video has seen support for the ginger minority spring up unannounced from all quarters but in an interview with NME, M.I.A. refuses to take the credit for her pioneering stance. The singer coyishly maintains that she was baffled as to why people were interested in understanding the meaning of the clip, refusing to reveal her motivations behind it.
Interpol, the band who have perfected the sound of modern monochrome, made two announcements this weekend – firstly, the band have completed their latest “heavy record” and secondly, bassist Carlos Dengler has decided to leave the band despite playing on said record. Dengler has ambitions to make it as a film and television composer and [...]
On the eve of the release of his 4AD debut release Before Today, Ariel Pink and band played a rather short but often brilliant set at New York’s Mercury Lounge showcasing the mercurial popsters hazy take on 80s pop, drenched in distortion and AM radio vibes.
