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Archive for June, 2009
An Evening With Rock Plaza Central at The Black Cat, DC (6/3)
It is a rainy, miserable night looking outside the entrance to DC’s Black Cat. Rain drips down the glass pane of the Cat’s quaint Food For Thought Café. Inside, Rock Plaza Central frontman Chris Eaton comments, “Man it’s horrible outside, no one’s gonna come.” The very thought that a band as creative and talented as Rock [...]
Update: The Pretenders + Cat Power + Juliette Lewis unveil summer trek
As we noted yesterday when mentioning all of Juliette Lewis’ friends, the actress turned Juliette and the Licks frontlady turned solo artists will be spending quite a bit of time on the road this summer with fellow estrogen rockers The Pretenders and Cat Power. Today, courtesy of Spin, the dates for their North American tour [...]
Yes, Pet Shop Boys are coming to America
The Pet Shop Boys’ Yes may be my favorite album of the year just because of the number play on words one can create using the title. Yes, the Pet Shop Boys are finally coming to North America beginning August 29th to support their new studio album, Yes. Yes, the trek, which runs until late [...]
Check Out: Sub Pop’s 2009 Cybersex Digital Sampler
As if Sub Pop couldn’t get any cooler, what with the plethora of great music it puts out every year, it just did. Yep, that’s because the Seattle based record label is offering up a free music sampler full of bits and pieces of said music. With a tracklist that includes throwbacks (Red Red Meat) [...]
The Black Crowes search for utopia at a venue near you
Despite last year’s Warpaint and the subsequent nonstop touring, which consisted of some 138 shows over the course of 10 month, The Black Crowes appear to have even more in store for their fans. In addition to beginning work on a new studio album, the Georgia rockers have taken on such other tasks as searching [...]
Van Halen picks up where 1984 left off
For those of you out there divided in the saga that is Van Halen, well, the next chapter of it just got a lot more interesting. For starters, after a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone, founder and guitarist Eddie Van Halen recently spilled the beans on not only a brand new Van Halen album (the [...]
Danger Mouse has The Last Laugh
What’s that? We’re almost at the end of the week and Brian Burton, aka, Danger Mouse, has not announced a new project? Actually, he has, just today in fact. In Barton’s latest collaboration, the American producer has teamed up with prolific DJ and British singer Helena Costas under the name Joker’s Daughter, and are due [...]
Album Review: Iron & Wine – Around the Well
B-side collections are a musical oddity, primarily designed for true fans not looking for hit singles. The thing is, most (if not all) fans already have a good majority of the “unreleased” material, thanks to the fruitful-yet-handy internet. The others? They opt for retail. That brings us to Iron & Wine‘s latest release, Around the [...]
Infected Mushroom tells the Legend Of The Black Shawarma
What do you get when you combine Israeli psychedelic trance, five gigantic sharks, Perry Farrell, and a little bit of Korn? Infected Mushroom‘s new album of course! Due for release on September 8th via Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto label, Legend Of The Black Shawarma will mark the acclaimed electro duo’s seventh full-length album. And as one [...]
Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 gets a release date?
In the we’ll believe it when we see it category, Jay-Z will reportedly release his much-anticipated, long-awaited, much-delayed, Kanye West-produced, autotune-less new studio album, The Blue Print 3 (or The Blueprint³ if you want to utilize the small little ³) on September 11th – yes, Jay-Z will be the latest musician to defy logic and [...]
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