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Archive for January, 2009
Amy Milan takes a break from the Stars
Amy Milan may be best known for her work with Broken Social Scene and Stars, but at least for the foreseeable future, the 35-year-old Toronto native plans to go at it solo. As the indie starlet recently revealed in an interview with JAM! Music, she has begun work on what will be her second full-length [...]
UMF officially offers phase two of 2009 lineup
By now, courtesy of last week’s leak, the entire world, or at least, the casual reader of CoS knows that The Prodigy, Paul Van Dyk, Pendulum, Armin van Buuren, Moby are among the slew of high-profile electro acts making up the latest phase of the Ultra Music Festival‘s 2009 lineup. Today, the Miami based festival, [...]
Where We Live: Ronny’s – Chicago, IL
It’s been one year since the city of Chicago instituted a smoking ban in public places. Most bars have benefited from this, becoming better-smelling, healthier, and decidedly less claustrophobic. But Ronny’s, Logan Square’s local dive bastion of all things rock-n-roll, isn’t trying to become any of those things. In fact, it would probably smell better [...]
The Raveonettes leave the living room, plan new album
With the EP fun now all but over, The Raveonettes currently find themselves left with nothing to do. So what does one do when in this predicament? We’ll lef Sune Rose Wagner take it away: Had a great creative talk with Sharin [Foo] today and we’re so ready to make the best album to date! [...]
YouTube Live: The Gutter Twins on Later…With Jools Holland
I know the United States claimed victory in the Revolutionary War, but certain moments cause me to consider how our music might be a little better had the redcoats bested us. One of these moments came when The Gutter Twins, a collaboration between Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs/The Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees), performed [...]
Van Morrison gives Astral Weeks another go
Details have finally emerged regarding Van Morrison‘s much anticipated live reincarnation of his recent two-night stint at the Hollywood Bowl. If you remember, the legendary singer/songwriter took to the Los Angeles this past November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his classic album, Astral Weeks. As we learned today, Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood [...]
TNK Spotlight: The Soft Pack
In the days leading up to the CoS sponsored Tomorrow Never Knows Music Festival, we’ll be spotlighting some of the acts scheduled to bring the music and the fun to Schubas Tavern in Chicago between January 14-18… With a sound as pleasing as any of indie’s current darlings, yet a story that would make any [...]
Low vs Diamond, Nickel Eye head out on North American tour
When we last heard from Low vs Diamond, the Los Angeles rockers were busying tearing up a number of summer music festivals and hitting the late night circuit. When we last heard from Nickel Eye, Nikolai Fraiture led outfit were gearing up for the release of its debut studio effort, The Time of the Assassins, [...]
Watch: M.Ward’s “Hold Time”
We’ve all been eagerly awaiting M.Ward’s Hold Time, the 14 track followup to 2006’s exceptional Post War, and now with February on the horizon, the singer/songwriter has begun to dish out some early tastes. Starting with the album’s title track, Ward recently put together a video that’s both captivating and surreal for a song so [...]
Album Review: Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
If Animal Collective‘s latest effort were edible, it would be the most popular hallucinogen on the market. Simply put, Merriweather Post Pavilion is one hell of a trip. Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, David “Avey Tare” Portner, and Brian “Geologist” Weitz (I guess Deakin is on vacation) have done something special with their latest effort, and it [...]
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