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Archive for April, 2009
Album Review: PJ Harvey and John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
PJ Harvey‘s To Bring You My Love was one of those albums that every alternative rock fan owned in 1995. Her previous albums demonstrated she was a serious rocker to be reckoned with. On To Bring You My Love she proved she was going to do the rocking on her own terms. Whereas the album’s [...]
Check Out: Ryan Adams gives up retirement for death metal…
Ok, to be fair, Ryan Adams never actually retired from music – if we didn’t convice you at the time, perhaps the Valentine’s Day EP did. Still, one could say the appearance of werewolph.com, a recently launched website that sees the singer/songwriter “resurrecting” his death metal side-project Werewolph with three brand new selections does mark [...]
Stream: SCORE! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers
In case you haven’t heard by now, Merge Records is turning 20! Primarily forming as a place for Superchunk to release music, the North Carolina based taste makers have done good for themselves over the last two decades, shelling out works from a few folks you may have heard of: Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, [...]
Watch: Billy Bob Thornton is a tool
Dear Billy Bob Thornton, Like 99.96% of America, I best know you as a slightly above average actor and former husband of Angelina Jolie – not as a member of the musical outfit The Boxmasters. And this is coming from someone who probably spends over 16 hours a day dealing directly with the world of [...]
John Vanderslice returns with Romanian Names
John Vanderslice has done quite a lot in his decade long music career, everything from hanging with The Mountain Goats and making Bill Gates death songs to collaborating with orchestras and releasing lots of critically acclaimed, six to be exact. So, when the first line of the press release announcing Romanian Names, the Florida native’s [...]
Nas & Damian Marley get together for album, tour dates
In what may be the most unique collaboration of the year – Jack White & Thom Yorke: A Collaboration for the Ages doesn’t count because, well, nothing has happened yet – hip-hopper Nas and reggae artist/producer Damian “Jr Gong” Marley have announced plans for a pretty extensive collaborative relationship. The fun will kick off in [...]
iTunes ditches DRM, plays with prices
First, the good news: Behold! Apple has finally come around and unleashed the DRM-free mp3 on its iTunes store. The tech titan has announced a three tier purchasing option to secure its place as the top seller of mp3s. Back in January, at the MacWorld Expo Convention, Apple took some time after boasting about its [...]
Album Review: Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Pacific Northwest radical environmentalist subsistence farming. Throat-shredding, tooth-chattering black metal. To most, these might seem two irreconcilable lifestyles. No so for Olympia, Washington’s Wolves in the Throne Room. Self-describedly unifying “a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the 90′s” [wittr.com], WITTR furthers its uncomprimising vision with this year’s Black Cascade. Ostensibly named in honor [...]
stellastarr* shoots for July release
Nearly four years after the release of Harmonies for the Haunted, Brooklyn’s stellastarr* is finally ready to return with its much-anticipated third full-length effort. Called Civilized, the 10-track effort will feature both old (the Brooklyn foursome have reconnected who Tim O’Heir, who previously produced their self-titled debut) and new (after spending two LPs with record [...]
Eddie Vedder announces another solo tour
So that album, Ten, or whatever, just got re-issued. Apparently it’s a classic of sorts. Since I guess even the artists realize that re-issues really aren’t all that exciting, Pearl Jam isn’t stopping there. Well, at least The V man isn’t. Today, Eddie Vedder announced via PearlJam.com that he will head out on another solo [...]
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