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New record by Lindstrom is out tomorrow! I was able to get an advanced copy of the record and its good. It is very different than his debut album Where you go I go to released four years ago. Think more synth, funk, sweeping opening film type stuff ("No Release") and almost progressive rock type sounds. "De Javu" still stands out as my favorite track on the record with perhaps "Hina" second. Regardless just like his last album its a journey from beginning to end that begs the listener to join along. Great stuff. Check out some remixes... [...]
Norwegian space-disco king Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has a new album called Six Cups Of Rebel coming next week; we've already posted his track " De Javu ." And in something of a coup, he's recruited a very special remixer to come in and rework the album track "Quiet Place To Live": '70s studio-rock master Todd Rundgren. Talking to Rolling Stone , Lindstrøm says, "I'm not aware of any other remixes he's done before, in which case this feels really special as Todd Rundgren's music has been inspiring me a lot over the years." Listen to Rundgren's dizzy, [...]

2011 was the first year that I wasn't fully involved with OnlineRock , a company/website/label that I started back in 1999. I was looking forward to not being tethered to the website and having some freedom to explore other creative endeavors. At first I didn't think that much had happened in 2011 but looking back on it, it seemed to be a pretty eventful. From house concerts and traveling to books and recording, 2011 was one of the better years. Here are some of my highlights. Live Music: One thing [...]
New Wave before New Wave had really solidified. Sort of like Springsteen, but sort of not. Perhaps it's most accurately described as an offering to bridge the Billy Joel-ers and the Rundgren-ites, a union which sounds fairly unappetizing. Big noses, effeminate hair, and lots of bland pontificating in obnoxious Long Island accents. I don't much
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 Los Campesinos! has finally embraced the misery it has hinted at for years. From Hold On Now, Youngster… to We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed to Romance Is Boring , Los Campesinos! has made a steady decline into twee-pop depression. The Welsh band's latest album, appropriately titled Hello Sadness , doesn't even pretend to be happy. It is an obvious reflection of the break-up that inspired it. The music itself remains unbearably anxious and involved, with countless beats and instruments, but the affect is much gloomier. Lyrics like, "This dripping from my broken heart/Is [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Amazon Mark "Moogy" Klingman -- best known as keyboardist and a founding member of Todd Rundgren 's group Utopia -- died last night (Nov. 15) following a battle with cancer. He was 61. News of Klingman's passing was announced on Todd Rundgren's management Twitter account this afternoon as well as the RundgrenRadio Twitter account. "I have some sorrowful news this morning," read a brief statement Rundgren's Facebook page [...]

Todd Rundgren's Johnson is the latest album from Todd Rundgren . The album is a tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson to commemorate the centennial of his birth. The album was recorded at Rundgren's studio in Kauai, Utopia Sound. Todd played everything except bass, which was played by Utopia band mate Kasim Sulton. Todd Rundgren's Utopia are performing Saturday, November 19th, at the Tower Theatre. Go here for tickets and more information about the show. Below, stream Todd Rundgren's Johnson in its entirety. Todd Rundgren'sJohnson by [...]
Prior to the January 1 release of the new Guided By Voices full-length, Let's Go Eat The Factory (Guided By Voices Inc.), the band will be releasing three seven-inch singles. The first, "The Unsinkable Fats Domino"/"We Won't Apologize For The Human Race," will be out November 22 via Matador ... Delmore Records is celebrating the life [...]
I am all about recycling, upcycling, composting… anything that reuses materials that are already on this earth. If a friend wants to use jeans for insulation or to make a quilt out of old clothes, I will be over in an instant! But recycling music? I was not keen on this idea until I heard [...]

Upper Darby-born rock guitarist, part-time professor , and chillwave inspiration Todd Rundgren will be bringing his Todd Rundgren's Utopia tour to Tower Theatre on Saturday, November 19th. The 1974 album was the first release by the prog-rock outfit Utopia, which was led by Rundgren. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, October 7th and are available via livenation.com .

It's an exciting time to be alive and I'm not referring to the jetpacks, hovercrafts, teleporters and such. No, it's bacon. Canadian bacon. It's not really Canadian Canadian bacon (which is, actually, back bacon) but American Canadian bacon (which was invented by McDonald's). I brought up the subject once with a Canadian friend and he dropped his head, shaking it slowly back and forth. Like the stereotypical Canadian, this fellow was polite and generally good-natured. "That's not bacon," he sighed. I'd seldom seen him so peeved as [...]

Last Sunday, we gave you a sneak peak at North Highlands' upcoming debut Wild One , which is due out October 18th. Judging by the sound of their lead single "Benefits," you may expect their tastes to hover in between Indie pop and folk. That would be a misguided notion, so we had the New York City outfit curate a mixtape that shows us what they are really about. The results could not have come out anymore diverse or eclectic. Here's what they had to say about it: We all listen to [...]
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A courtesy Panacea Entertainment For more than 40 years, Todd Rundgren has carved out one of the most ambitious, impressive and unpredictable careers in music. A multi-faceted musician, composer and performer, he's also one of the most notable and successful record producers of his generation. Artists as diverse as Badfinger , the New York Dolls , the Patti Smith [...]
The Bangles are still gloriously "Retro" on their first new album in nearly eight years.

Presenting an illuminating six pack. Let it shine over you. Shirley Ann Lee - There's A Light MP3 Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light MP3 Horace Andy - Love Is The Light MP3 Television - Guiding Light MP3 Common - The Light MP3 The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out MP3 [...]
PopMatters sits down with pop iconoclast Todd Rundgren, to discuss his new collection of Robert Johnson covers, appropriately titled Todd Rundgren's Johnson . After four decades-plus in the music business, you'd think you'd have seen it all from the "God named Todd". But, in his usual Rundgren-esque manner, he's thrown the listening audience yet another curveball -- this time in the form of a collection of Robert Johnson covers (appropriately titled Todd Rundgren's Johnson). Long a hidden gem amongst rock guitarists, Rundgren uses his considerable chops to turn Johnson's acoustic sketches into pure balls-to-the-wall blues-rock, in the [...]

I tend to read a lot of music-related books. Over the past few months I've finished Decoded by Jay-Z, A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren in the Studio by Paul Myers and Just Kids by Patti Smith. I just started reading You Must Go and Win by Alina Simone and can't seem to put it down. I hope to post something about each of these books in the near future. One I really enjoyed is now available at Amazon . It's called EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact & [...]
When I usually see a band as being labeled as "indie pop" I shrug it off. The label and genre has gotten much more broad with every blogger, writer, journalist and editor using it to describe almost every band's songs. I've even heard certain Cut Copy's songs being described as "indie pop." Seriously, who are [...]