Archive for January, 2009

Metal Alert! Music As A Weapon returns for another go around!

By on January 28th, 2009

Taking note of fellow Mayhem Festival ’08 alumnus Slipknot, Disturbed have announced plans for its own extensive North America trek; this in the form of yet another edition of Music as a Weapon. Initiated in 2001, the spring touring festival gained mass appeal over its three previous editions with mainstream-friendly bills featuring the likes of [...]

The Duke Spirit models clothes, preps new album

By on January 28th, 2009

Kanye West isn’t the only high-profile to dabble in the world of fashion these days. Leila Moss, who is perhaps best known for her work as frontlady of The Duke Spirit, has also tried her hand in the world of designing and recently was tapped to serve as muse for Alexander McQueen’s new fashion line. [...]

Check out: War Child Heroes: Awesome covers by awesome artists

By on January 28th, 2009

The other day, news surfaced that David Bowie was back in Berlin working on new material. At the end of our news article, we stressed that if the aforementioned information is false, we will have to stick to listening to Bowie sing back up for TV on the Radio. Well, TV on the Radio has [...]

Album Review: Crooked X – Crooked X

By on January 28th, 2009

★★★★☆

As is usual with newer metal bands on the mainstream market, you can either be so ridiculously heavy that radio refuses to play you (a la Mastodon) or you can cater to the masses and give them accessible headbanging. Crooked X appears to be one of those bands that fall under the latter description, but [...]

Dan Deacon takes Bromst, band on the road

By on January 28th, 2009

Dan Deacon will soon Bromst the country – I wonder if that’s a verb? broom + swept = bromst? – and it will be in more way than one. In support of his new studio album, which officially hits shelves on March 24th via Carpark Records, the Baltimore based DJ has announced plans for a [...]

David Bowie: No Coachella, no Twitter

By on January 28th, 2009

Just in case you didn’t believe NME’s report on Monday and are still holding out hope that David Bowie will in fact resurrect Ziggy Stardust to close out the 10th anniversary of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, the 62-year-old legend has decided to again dash those hopes and set the record straight via [...]

Watch: BK puts up a “Fight” on Letterman

By on January 27th, 2009

We’re all on the same page when we say Ben Kweller can do no wrong, right? Okay, just checking. After all, the twenty-seven year old Texan is quite the songwriter these days. If he’s not carving out eccentricities in the punk-grunge rock genre, he’s certainly flirting around with some folk or indie rock. Most recently, [...]

M83 does Conan O’Brien tonight, hangs with Orchestra in March

By on January 27th, 2009

Have you been looking for something to do tonight? Well, aside from waiting for Coachella to drop. No worries, M83’s got you covered with their first televised event ever tonight, January 27th, on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’ Brien. And what’s even better is the stellar electronic/shoegaze duo will be performing their fabulous new [...]

Watch: The Killers’ “Spaceman”

By on January 27th, 2009

If you happened to have read our leftovers for 2008, you might recall that among the honorable mentions for the award for Just STFU Already–a prize ultimately granted to Jack Johnson–was “Brandon Flowers and his feather coat.” You may also recall that The Killers‘ “Human” was awarded with the prestigious Worst Lyric. Fast forward a [...]

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band take Dream on the road…

By on January 27th, 2009

On the same day they celebrate the release of their new studio album, Working on a Dream, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band have finally unveiled dates for their much anticipated world tour. Following their performance at halftime of Superbowl XLIII this Sunday, The Boss and Co. will launch what is currently a four-month [...]