Father's Day is Sunday....don't tell us you forgot?! Hmm, tell you what, we've got you covered this time if you're still scrambling for that last minute perfect gift. This year, why not give the gift that keeps on giving? FREE MUSIC. Below, download any or all of the free songs, compilations, and EPs that have come our way this past week for dear old Dad. As always, some are EAR FARM favorites, some might be more your bag than ours, all are free for you to enjoy... just click the band name for the band's [...]
The boys from The Raconteurs are not idle even if we fans do not hear any new materials from them. Jack Lawrence and Jack White are busy working on their side project The Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart from The Kills and Dean Fertita from Queens of the Stone Age , [...]
[Some of the lots and lots of things that have come to my attention ...] Coming soon to the Beck.com website will be a section called Record Club — which will feature mp3s of songs from studio sessions during which Beck and his pals will re-record an entire album in a single day, sans rehearsal. Should be interesting, especially since the collaborators have chosen "The Velvet Underground & Nico" to kick off the venture. There's no definite timetable, but among the people sitting in early on: Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Jamie Lidell and Nigel Godrich. [...]
Brendan Benson has put out 3 solid solo albums making a pretty good name for himself. However, he probably is better known for his contributions in The Raconteurs singing alongside Jack White. He is going to release his first album since the formation of The Raconteurs later this year. The album is called My Old, Familiar Friend . I wouldn't be surprised to see Brendan's solo work really take off now that his name is familiar to a larger spectrum of people. I got a brand new track from this new LP that I would [...]
Embora hoje conhecido com o "outro cara do Raconteurs" , Brendan Benson é bem mais que isso. Antes de formar a banda com o amigo Jack White, Benson já tinha gravado três ótimos (mas mal sucedidos comercialmente) discos-solo, sendo que um deles, "Lapalco" de 2002, é indispensável em qualquer boa lista de melhores álbuns dessa década ("Metarie", desse disco, é fácil uma das canções mais bonitas ever). O problema todo é que com o Raconteurs bombando e alguns problemas com sua antiga gravadora, ele estava sem lançar desde 2005, quando soltou "The Alternative To Love". [...]
Before you fell in love with him as one of those pesky Raconteurs , Brendan Benson was writing great pop tunes all over the place; his album Lapalco is one of the must haves in my opinion. Finally he is making new tunes, and is set to release his new album My Old, Familiar Friend via ATO Records on August 18th. This new track is interesting; it is more keyboard driven [...]
Nu snackar vi alltså inte om hans rygg för er som undrade över rubriken, utan om att han är tillbaka. Det är säkerligen många med mig som fullkomligt älskade hans senaste album Alternative to love , och hans nya My old, familiar friend lär väl spela i samma liga! Bedöm själva Brendan Benson - Feel like taking you home
Something tells me people are gonna be keyed into Brendan Benson's forthcoming solo LP more than his previous three combined. Which isn't to say One Mississippi , Lapalco , and 2005's The Alternative To Love aren't worth listening to repeatedly (they offer brilliant bits of seasoned power-pop), or that Brendan didn't get his share of media spotlight in the past (his "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" was in Bones and an Apple ad). Just that all of that happened before this happened . It'd be fair to call Nashville-and-London recorded My Old, Familiar [...]
This past weekend, Consequence of Sound packed our bags and traveled to Manchester, Tennessee to take in the sights and sounds of Bonnaroo '09 - more on that to come. We already shared some of the news making headlines while we were gone . Here are some more: Reunions: Blur is officially back . So are the Pixies . Pixies: Speaking of the Pixies, in what will be latest completely overwhelming box set, The Pixies [...]
File Brendan Benson under that category of criminally underrated solo musicians. Before his work with the Raconteurs , Benson had released three records and a couple of EPs, all full of well-written, straightforward indie pop with a warm, classic edge. His new album, My Old, Familiar Friend , comes out on August 18th via ATO Records . More info, tracklist and MP3s after the jump. Since 2005's The Alternative to Love , Benson has spent significant [...]
Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson has announced a few details about his first solo album in over three years. Benson is set to release the album, ' My Old, Familiar Friend ', on August 24. The forthcoming album is the follow-up to his 2005's ' The Alternative To Love '. Brendan Benson ' My Old, Familiar Friend ' tracklisting: 'A Whole Lot [...]
Brendan Benson , quien es el co-frontman de The Raconteurs junto a Jack White, anunció que lanzará su cuarto disco solista el 24 de agosto , el cual fue grabado en Nashville. Se llamará My Old, Familiar Friend y es el primero que lanza después de la producción The Alternativo To Love , que fue presentada en el 2006, ya que estuvo trabajando con todas las energías puestas en The Raconteurs. Este es el tracklist del álbum: 'A Whole [...]
Before playing second fiddle to Jack White in The Raconteurs, Brendan Benson was once of the best indie pop songwriters around. Big hooks and sugary melodies were a trademark.Well now Benson is back to prove the spotlight belongs on him. Benson will be releasing his fourth studio album, My Old, Familiar Friend, on August 25th.The track list looks like this:A Whole Lot BetterEyes On The
-London based electropop duo La Roux's debut album comes out on June 29th. The You Tube commenters are right: lead singer Elly Jackson has a *very* high pitched voice that sounds as if she went on a 3 day helium bender. I like it. Find La Roux's sleek and cursedly non-embeddable video in question here and their website/paean to neon here . This one has the makings to be remixed every way til Sunday: La Roux: In For the Kill.mp3 [...]
Today sees the launch of Bonnaroo 365 on Bonnaroo.com , a program by which fans can relive the festival experience year round. Throughout the year, select performers from Bonnaroo 2008 will be streaming at no charge for fans worldwide to see for the first time or for those who were at the Manchester, Tennessee festival to re-live. All performance footage will be taken directly from the festival's exclusive master tapes while the audio will be remixed from the festival's pristine soundboard recordings. The debut installment of the program launches today with The Raconteurs, whose furious [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Organizers of Bonnaroo today announced BONNAROO 365 , a program which lets fans relive the festival experience all year long. Select performances will be streamed free at bonnaroo.com throughout the year. All performance footage will be taken directly from the festival's exclusive master tapes, while the audio will be remixed from the festival's soundboard recordings. The first installment of the new program [...]
Like me. Not like me , but like me. It's not bad if you're just like me, but just like me. You know? Brendan Benson: Metarie from Lapalco - a collection of sideways love songs . Chairlift: Bruises from Does You Inspire You - an album that inexplicably made it onto many best of 2008 lists.
The Raconteurs' follow up to their fantastic debut, Broken Boy Soldiers , is the longer and more involved Consolers of the Lonely . BBS was a very quick and furious collection of songs that definitely impressed, and The Raconteurs have retained the furious style for their newest record, but have put a little more into it, checking in 14 songs this time around, a much longer length, and seemingly a little more time and polish have gone into the final product. Top to bottom this is an excellent record with each track being quite able to [...]
So I saw this movie called Ghost Town the other day.. Surprisingly it was pretty good.. I'm not much of romantic comedy fan but this movie was an A- for me.. Being a guy and watching a chick flick isn't easy.. It's like you kind of want things to go wrong for the women in [...]
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