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Archive for April, 2009
Rivers runs deep, records song about God during Rainn-storm
Dwight from The Office (aka Rainn Wilson) recently Tweeted that it was “one of the best days of my life.” That would be the day he faux-crashed a Rivers Cuomo recording session in L.A. and forced his way onto the Weezer frontman’s cover of “One of Us” after insisting that he was “a pretty mean [...]
Zoroaster gets ready to “Doom” North America with summer tour
And as if life wasn’t good enough for metal heads… Kicking off in Chicago, Illinois on August 1st, the North America is Doomed tour sponsored by Decibel Magazine and Metalsucks.net is expected to be “one of the most important underground metal packages of 2009.” Featuring Zoroaster, The Gates of Slumber and Serpentcult, the highly anticipated [...]
Steve Earle readies Townes Van Zandt tribute album
In the 2004 documentary Be Here to Love Me, Steve Earle exclaims, “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” Though many only know of the legendary Folk musician’s work through his cover of the Stones’ “Dead [...]
Moby asks you to Wait…
Maybe it’s a new trend, but it seems like more and more acts are churning out new material left and right these days. We’re not going to complain, however, especially when the likes of Moby is involved. That’s right. Only a year after he put out his throw back album Last Night, New York’s own [...]
Album Review: The Thermals – Now We Can See
Holy metaphors Batman! If you’re a fan of the abstract, then you’ve come to the right album. The Thermals frontman and key songwriter Hutch Harris has always had a lot to say about the current state of the world, and in particular, America. Of course, this is true of a lot of great songwriters, but [...]
Pearl Jam continues to surprise us…
Argue ’til the midnight hour, but Pearl Jam looks to be the hottest act this year, and oddly enough, they’ve yet to release a lick of new material. Between headlining slots at ACL and Outside Lands, super, mega, conjunga re-issues, a solo tour, and the promise of a new album, the Seattle rockers continue to [...]
Street Sweeper changes name to Street Sweeper Social Club
Less than a month after being introduced to the world, Street Sweeper, the new collaborative project of Tom Morello and Boots Riley, has apparently changed its name. So says tourmate Trent Reznor via Twitter:
@MikeSkinner (THE STREETS) shells out music too…
And we have our second Twitter mention of the day… Mike Skinner, aka the creative mastermind behind The Streets, has released what is the first in a series of three new songs to be unveiled on his Twitter this week. The London native cited time as the reasons behind his decision: “I am going to [...]
The Cool Kids to release mixtape…but, where’s the album?
Despite the fact that nearly everyone on Earth is basically awaiting their debut full-length, hip-hop duo The Cool Kids have their mind set on other things, like taking quick trip to Atlanta earlier this month to work on a brand new mixtape, entitled Gone Fishin’. According to Mikey Rocks’ (Antoine Reed) blog, they pumped out 6 [...]
Coachella offers up ’09 schedule
4119 minutes from the publishing of this post (3:25 p.m. EST), Switch will take the stage to kick off the 10th annual the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Yes ladies and gentlemen, with less than three days to go, the 2009 schedule has finally been released!
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