Perth, Australia, Erasers claim they sound like: repetition, rhythm, simple defines what this duo are will provide you. Trance? Hypnosis? Stealthful four on the floor rhythms almost on top of, certainly […]
Hot on the heels of our actors that don’t rock post comes news that Hugh Laurie, of TV House fame, is recording a blues album. Laurie’s evolution from brilliant comedy
1. Let’s Spend The Night Together – David Bowie – Greatest Stones cover ever? Either this or Steve Earle’s “Dead Flowers”. Stutter, gay, come on replete with spoken middle (“they
Aaron Gillespie former Underoath drummer and all around awesome dude reports that he has completed his solo album. In a world full of bands saying they’re going to, that they
“Hands up, guns out, represent the world town,” MIA sang at Governor’s Island Saturday as part of an 8 hour festival celebrating all things Neet records. Including my faves: Sleigh
1. Yolanda Be Cool vs D Cup – ‘We Speak No Americano’ 2. Eminem – ‘Love The Way You Lie’ (feat. Rihanna) 3. B.o.B – ‘Airplanes’ (feat. Hayley Williams) 4.
Spin is 25 and for celebrating, there will be the SPIN25 concerts featuring artists performing at Terminal 5 and Radio city Music Hall in NYC, which will be streamed live
1. Blue Drain – Shadowbox – The new face of hard rock 2.Autumn Trees – Erasers – Aural painting goes right back to Alyson’s synthesias post yesterday. 3.Under The Blue
If you had been at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday YOUR LIFE MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN DANGER because the Hall “played host to the ‘Doctor Who Prom’ – a
Those nasty, infantile frat boys 3Oh!3 got a 1 star review from Rolling Stone though, whatever your feelings about Streets Of Gold, and I kinda like it, it is vastly
Crooked – Kirstin Hirsch – the highly gifted former Throwing Muse is a bit of a snooze The Way Out – The Books – Strange and bewitching electronic samples wover
I have complained so much about the squeaky clean pre processed state of music these days but today, well today I was validated. The Kings of Leon halted their St
Music, sounds are difficult to describe, and for this, we use metaphors evoking other senses, some metaphors are related to taste like ‘a sweet melody’, although I have never heard
We stole this off gigwise and they could sue us they really could… but no such luck. We called Jennifer Chiba a murderer and didn’t get sued. We HELD A
Shadowbox aka Bonnie Baxter plus husband on guitar, started this creation in 2003 and has seen it change from a hard rock outfit to the intensely beautiful and strange beat,
The President listens to Jack White in rapt awe Jack White performed The Beatles, “Mother Natures Son”, for Library of Congress Gershwin Prize event honoring Paul McCartney. I have never
On October 29, 2008. Mary Magpie and I trudged off to Bridgeport CT to see the hugely on the rise Panic At The Disco. Our second time seeing the band,
So here is the question on the tip of your tongue: why Noun? Why did Marissa Paternoster, singer and guitarist for Screaming Females, need another outlet for her not inconsiderable
1. Under The Blue Sky – Dafni – A glorious song. She should get this to a Reba or a Carrie Underwood. 2. Call Earth – Noun – Marissa’s most personal
I went into this wanting to bash. Ive been doing alot of that and I’m on a roll. But the truth is I cant. KISS is playing for the kids.
Reading some articles about Robyn I saw on Friday night, I stumbled on an site mentioning the pop Swedish band Ace of Base as an influence but also as ‘our
“I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of Meat is Murder. I think that is quite
According to the Sun, the UK tabloid, the Rolling Stones are setting up a final worldwide Stadium tour with Live Nation for 2011, and will call it a career after
AP Fall Tour Time is here. But this year its a bit different.. no ‘The Academy Is…”, “Never Shout Never…” AP’s autumn romp was infamous for its poppunkaltwhatever genre. But
I’m sorry but I thought by now I would be reporting in on My Chemical Romance saying all is forgiven. The photo shoots, the teasers, the leaks the bullshit the
Gogol Bordello has a new video for their song ‘Pala Tute’ directed by acclaimed Russian video director Aliaksei Tserakhau, and it is an original one, with collages and cartoonish animations.
Here are the lyric to LCD Soundsystems “Losing My Edge” off their first album. Kinda smacks all we so called scenemakers across the head and plus works as rock criticism…
Iman and I are gonna throw caution to the wind put on our glitzy finest and have a proper date to the event we both have prayed for for years.
If Ann Kirsten Kennis’s idea was to get some privacy back, perhaps suing Vampire Weekend wasn’t quite the way to go about it. After all, nobody really knew who she
Robyn looks tough but also sweet and feminine, her voice is very strong and powerful but also has some youngish intonations, sort of Pat Benatar’s voice mixed with Kylie Minogue’s,
Amy Correia is irritated just by the memory. Sincerely irritated. Standing centerstage with an extended band trumpet, bass, cello violin, drums, four chick back up singers, she tells of being
Dafni writes superb songs. Superb. Listening to her fourth album Sweet Time I am, to be quite honest, somewhat stunned. Dafni calls it twisted takes on jazz, country, pop… like
I begged her not to do it. Body talk is one of my fave albums of the year, I don’t want a Part 2 . It is overkill. What if
New Goodbye – Hey Rosetta! – An inspired mix of Midlake, Kingsbury Manx, and, them again, the Gin Blossoms that comes across like a pastoral dream embedded in rock. They
‘What’s in it for’, the first single of Avi Buffalo’s self-titled album, is addictive and a five minute trip in a refreshing but also very familiar territory where everything seems
“billy don’t be a hero… come back and make me your wife” Billy Corrigan collapsed on stage. Personally I think its because I said I couldn’t think of anything nice
I know it’s illegal, I know it’s not fair, but it’s so tempting, and all over the place I was not even really looking for it. http://fenopy.com/torrent/ARCADE+FIRE+THE+SUBURBS+2010+LEAK/NjAzMzEwMQ Spin has already
This wonderful and true rendition of rock nyc editors hard at work on your daily dose of mayhem was painted by Helen Bach. Yes, folks, this is what really does
1. Laura And Marty – Screaming Females – The first track off their second album and while it is maybe too early to be reviewing the album, this opening track
Leaving Amoeba after the Robyn set, I drove by the Palladium where the concert Rage Against the Machine-Conor Oberst and the mystic Valley against the Arizona immigration law had already
I wrote here how I was boycotting the Specials because Jerry Dammers wasn’t playing with them and then I heard they were playing a free concert at Summer Stage August
Many blogs yesterday afternoon were announcing that the new Arcade Fire album had leaked, and it was pretty easy to find. The Internet has become an immense music resource and
I could be writing a post, I really could but instead I am listening to the new Screaming Females album (dropping September 14th, pop pickers) and cut and pasteing stuff
Upon being friended by Mikey Wax on Myspace, I was eager to give him a listen, and I’m glad I did. “Hourglass” reminds me of a coffee shop sort of
Liam Gowing’s answer to our post about his Spin Magazine article was a surprise to me though I appreciate somebody going on the record for us even if it is
I had scheduled an interview with a group called C-Mon & Kypski a few days before Bisco, so I knew had to have most my senses for at least that
Look, we all make mistakes. In this case, it was you who did. When the Undertones and U2 were emerging from the mean streets of belfast, me? I said the
What the hell? Well, as Alyson reported recently, if Iman if ain’t in the mood hecan watch the Arcade Fire concert from Madison Square Garden right there on his PC. Whats
Following Brett Jensen’s review last month, I decided to discover what all the fuss about Kaiser Cartel was about. The male-female duo were playing in Los Angeles on Tuesday night so I went
Brooklynvegan report three nights of dissing BP within an inch of their lives to help those in the verglades who have Texas tea all over their natural habitat. Worthy stuff
