Colorado's Monolith Festival is in trouble. Organizers of the three-year-old event, plagued the past two years by fractious Rocky Mountain weather, told fans in an e-mail "the future of the festival is very grim," and that they have "been unable to secure any options" that dig the fest out of its financial hole. Included was a plea for potential buyers/investors. [Full text of the letter after the jump.] Meanwhile, Bonnaroo announced its ninth annual event will be held June 10-13, 2010, near Manchester, Tenn. Tickets go on sale at noon Nov. 27. Meanwhile, only 148 days [...]
It's Tuesday, sportsracers, and Waved Rumor brings you non- Kiss-related items for your Tuesday nerve central pleasure. - Rock & Roll Daily reports : Oasis the band is really done, says Liam (again). But Liam is recording with the old Oasis bandmates for a new project and says he'll play live in early 2010. No sign of Noel Gallagher. Yet. - Colorless is the new Green. (via Alltop ) - Mick Jones and Tony James of Carbon/Silicon are making their new Carbon/Silicon songs available for free [...]
Our favorite rockers, Carbon/Casino, are back with a new album for free download through their official web site. This brand new full-length, which first became available on Saturday the 14th of November, 2009, follows the release of the group's successful 2007 first physical release "The Last Post" which the group came through the East Coast in support of two years ago. All of Carbon/Silicon's previous releases were made available through the band's official web site and online forum only, previous to The Last Post. The full online release for their latest album comes with cover art [...]
Mick Jones' new album with his band Carbon/Silicon is being offered to fans completely free-of-charge to download. Entitled The Carbon Bubble, it was made available via the internet - cover artwork, booklet and all - on Saturday (November 14). Since 2006, the band have made a name for themselves by doing just this.
What if there were a parallel world where the Beatles never broke up? If you visit one site today, make it this one Carbon/Silicon are giving their new album, The Carbon Bubble , away for free on their site starting this past Saturday Fix Your Mix has a very comprehensive compositional analysis of Grizzly Bear's "Ready, Able" Liam Gallagher is forming a new band without big brother Noel Dan Deacon forced to cancel his tour after being hospitalized with [...]
Carbon Silicon have a new album and they are giving it away for free. The Carbon Bubble has 12 new songs with Mick Jones and Tony James writing the tunes, playing guitars and singing and Leo Williams on bass and Dominic Greensmith on drums. Here's a sample - then head over here to grab the rest. Reach For The Sky - Carbon/Silicon Fresh Start - Carbon/Silicon [...]
In the least surprising news of the day (we'll tell you in a minute if you don't know why), Carbon/Silicon , the British based outfit that features former Clash guitarist Mick Jones and Generation X bassist Tony James, have announced plans to release a brand new studio album for free download. The effort, titled The Carbon Bubble , will be available to fans worldwide through carbonsiliconinc.com starting at noon tomorrow, November 14th. In addition to the album's 12 tracks, which were all written by Jones and James, fans can download the complete cover artwork [...]
" Carbon/Silicon , the band formed by Mick Jones of The Clash and Tony James of Generation X , will self-release The Carbon Bubble on Saturday, November 14th. The reason for the special weekend release date is that the album will be made exclusively available as a FREE download via their website www.carbonsiliconinc.com ." Continue reading "Carbon/Silicon releasing free album Saturday " at BrooklynVegan.com
Filed under: News , New Music , New Releases Clash icon Mick Jones will again offer fans free music when his current band, Carbon/Silicon , drops its latest album, 'The Carbon Bubble', via the group's official site on Saturday. Carbon/Silicon -- Jones' endeavor with onetime Generation X member Tony James -- has released all of its material to fans via free download since its 2002 inception. 'The Carbon Bubble' will be available to fans worldwide starting at noon. In [...]
Its hard to believe that forty years ago in 1969, The Kinks first released their album Arthur (Or The Decline of The British Empire). It was released following their album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society , that upon it's initial release sold poorly. Since then Village Green has gone on to become a cult classic and many Kinks fans favourite Kinks album, but people often overlook Arthur . It is based upon a concept revolving around Arthur, who moves to Australia from England with his wife after World War II. The [...]
Mick Jones of the The Clash is in the midst of a five week art project in London dubbed the The Rock n Roll Public Library . The exhibit will run every week through the 25th of August from Wednesday to Sunday at the Ladbroke Grove Underground in the British capital. The event is described as follows: The Rock n Roll Public Library is Mick Jones's (The Clash, B.A.D, Carbon Silicon) direct artistic challenge to the likes of the corporate 02 British Music Experience. Rather than let his creative legacy atrophy Jones is 'transforming' [...]
Joey Ramone is best known for his role in the New York group Ramones. Being the lead singer of the group, Joey was also a song writer within the group. Born as Jeffery Hymann in Forest Hills, in Queens New York, Joey grew up on music such as The Beatles, The Who, The Stooges, bubble gum pop, surf music and Phil Spector produced groups. All of these influences would have a direct influence on his vocal style, but Joey started out playing drums. When his parents divorced, Joey became more focused on music and played drums with glam rock influenced [...]
Top Album Releases: April 2009 Nick's Top The Crocodiles: Summer Of Hate Wooden Shjips: Dos Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: Vs. Children Bat for Lashes: Two Suns Pomegranates: Everybody, Come Outside! [...]
The Frank Black-produced Art Brut vs. Satan is Art Brut's third album, and the highlight of the new releases this week for me. Depeche Mode's Sounds Of The Universe comes out tomorrow as well, as does the 4-disc Jane's Addiction: Cabinet of Curiosities box set The legendary Booker T. returns with Potato Hole , this time with the Drive-By Truckers as his backing band. [...]
The first names for Electric Picnic 2009 in Stradbally have been announced at the launch today in Dublin and without further ado, the acts confirmed to play are: Orbital Flaming Lips Basement Jaxx Madness MGMT Fleet Foxes Klaxons BellX1 Rodrigo Y Gabriela Chic - first ever Irish apperance Seasick Steve 2 Many DJs Explosions in the Sky Lisa Hannigan Alabama 3 Zero 7 The Sugarhill Gang Erol Alkan Roots Manuva Billy [...]
Grand Duchy is the latest venture from Charles Thompson (a.k.a Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis). It's a duo with his wife Violet Clark that explores relatively off-road terrain for Thompson: high-gloss new wave and vampish synth pop. Grand Duchy's playful and slightly Euro-affected debut album, Petits Four, is out April 14 on Cooking Vinyl. Thompson [...]
In 1984, one year after being fired from The Clash Mick Jones formed a new group. Big Audio Dynamite would blend elements of Punk, Pop, Hip-Hop, Funk, Reggae and Dance into their music. The band can be seen as an extension from the work that Mick Jones recorded on The Clash's Combat Rock . Recruiting friend Don Letts to do vocals and sound effects, Mick Jones assembled the first incarnation of what was to be known as Big Audio Dynamite. Leo "E-Zee Kill" Williams would play bass, Greg Roberts the drums and Mick Jones would cover guitar, vocals and [...]
The South by Southwest music conference is a big event every year in Austin that masquerades as an important opportunity for music industry types to get together, discuss their business and get exposed to a few new acts. What it really is - and it shall hereafter be referred to as SXSW - is a huge-ass party with more than a thousand music acts playing nearly continuously for about four days. Big Fun. Over the years we've covered this event for various news media outlets, but we stopped doing that about 10 years ago. Now we just go for the [...]
In 1986 a year after The Clash broke up, Paul Simonon formed a group known as Havana 3am. Taking their name from a 1950s album by Cuban artist Perez Prado, Havana 3am consisted of Paul Simonon on bass, Gary Myrick on guitar, and Travis Williams on drums, and Nigel Dixon on vocals. The band took their influences mainly from Reggae, Latino music, and Rockabilly music. The band recorded an album and released it in 1991. Havana 3am , contained tweleve tracks and the song "Reach the Rock", was a small radio hit. Their album mixed a variety of styles, [...]
Another photo feature from GLONO's new UK HQ. This time, we catch up with Mick Jones and Tony James for Carbon/Silicon's Carbon Casino at the Hammersmith Club in London.
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