CoS Year-End Report: The Top 100 Albums of ‘09: 100-76

By Michael Roffman on December 15th, 2009

100. U2 – No Line on the Horizon

Set aside any cracks at Bono and focus solely on the music; the result is U2 and its concrete reign upon Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree alone.  No Line On The Horizon is not a classic album, despite an incessant amount of touring with a stage show that [...]

New Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, “nearly finished”

By Alex Young on November 29th, 2009

Hey, look! A few actual details concerning the band’s much anticipated new album!

Big Day Out ‘10 rounds up Muse, The Decemberists, Rise Against, more

By Alex Young on September 29th, 2009

But no Bowie… so far.

Gorillaz come up with some Horrors

By Alexander Borsody on September 7th, 2009

The Horrors sure have a good way of capturing the attention of high-profile musical outfits.

Mercury Prize 2009 nominations announced…

By Alex Young on July 21st, 2009

The Mercury Prize is an annual award for the “best British album,” and unlike the Teen Choice Awards where surfboards are given as trophies, winning it is actually a pretty big deal. So is the fact that £20,000 is given to the winner. Today, nominations for the 2009 Mercury Prize were announced and among the [...]

Update: NIN unveils details of final U.S. shows

By Alex Young on July 10th, 2009

As we reported earlier this week, Trent Reznor has decide to delay Nine Inch Nail’s U.S. farewell just a little longer with the addition of a few more tour dates. Today, we got exact detail of when and where these dates are going down.

Nine Inch Nails delay farewell… add a few more dates

By Alex Young on July 7th, 2009

Their appearance at Bonnaroo last much was supposed to be Nine Inch Nails last ever performance in the United States. Note the word was. Today, Trent Reznor announced that following its remaining European engagements, the band will return to the states for few more shows. “Getting right to the point, we’re going to play a [...]

The Horrors take Primary Colours to U.S.

By Charles Poladian on June 20th, 2009

What do you do for an encore when you are a ridiculously hyped British band that made a decent debut album, which culled from goth, punk, garage rock and freakbeat thrown in for good measure? Why you make a beautifully polished shoegaze, noise pop album produced by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Chris Cunningham, of course! Well, at [...]

A night of Kills, Horrors, and Magic Wands at Bowery (5/2)

By Charles Poladian on May 4th, 2009

The Kills…The Horrors…and Magic Wands. No friends, this is not a summary of a some late night World of Warcraft fun. Instead, this is what transpired at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night when three of indie’s most acclaimed up-and-comers hit the stage for a ruckus night of musical magic. Ok, so maybe it [...]

The Kills plan a tour with horror and magic

By Alex Young on February 5th, 2009

Most bands bands appearing on this year’s Coachella lineup built their tour around the Indio, California based festival, using it as a “finale” of sorts, a great way to cap off a North American tour. But for The Kills, the U.K. based outfit out will use Coachella as a springboard for its newly unveiled North [...]