The Morgue Party Candidate I'm still in two mind as to whether this is one of the best or worst names for a band that I have heard in ages, but the one thing is for sure their EP 'Good Morning, Good Night' is pretty damn good, and it's available for free here . If you like what you hear and you are going to the Define Pop [...]
Tori Amos's holiday album, Midwinter Graces , is in stores tomorrow, as is the Pixies 17-disc Minotaur box set. Among the discs that have already been sent my way, I can definitely recommend Caroline Herring's Golden Apples of the Sun , Hyperstory's self-titled album , Loch Lomond's Night Bats , and Robyn Hitchcock's live album, I Often Dream of Trains in New York (CD & DVD) . Reissues this week [...]
This week's program was hosted by Chris of I Am Collecting Beautiful Things . A wide variety of rock was played, new and old. Some of my favourite selections from this week's program was new music by Julian Casablancas and music from the re-issue of Nirvana's Bleach album. Nirvana released a re-issue of their 1989 album Bleach celebrating the albums 20th anniversary this week. The album was originally released on June 15th, [...]
Stephen Stills and Chris Hillman take one last ride on the Manassas train.
Pieces is just what the title says, but shouldn't be discounted. The original Manassas album was a disconnected smattering of "pieces" itself. Nobody had combined country, rock, salsa, blues, and bluegrass like Stephen Stills' powerhouse 7-piece that formed out from the wake of CSNY and the Burrito Brothers. Pieces collects some leftovers from the Miami sessions that led to the first album ("Witching Hour" "Like A Fox"), warmups and ideas intended for the lost 2nd Manassas album, Down The Road ("Lies" "Love and Satisfy"), and what Stills refers to as "Chris Hillman and Byron Berline teaching me bluegrass" [...]
Great vault finds from Stephen Stills' post-CSN/Y band As CSN/Y's initial rush of productivity and fame led to a split in the early '70s, Stephen Stills followed up his two self-titled solo albums with a pair of albums backed by Manassas. The group, formed with Chris Hillman and others in the Stills orbit, recorded a large number of tracks across a range of rock, country, blues, bluegrass, folk and salsa styles. Their self-titled 1972 debut was a 21-track double-LP nominally divided into four sections, but cross-pollinating the styles throughout. Their followup, 1973's [...]
Chris and Rich Robinson formed the Black Crowes in 1984. There are have been a lot of highs and some lows on their records over the years, but they have always remained a hugely successful live act. One of the big reasons for this is their ability to mix in great covers into their sets. Here are a few of their best that have been captured on video over the years. A fun video (with some hilarious crowd shots) of the Crowes covering Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35" at the 1991 Monsters of Rock [...]
PICK OF THE WEEK Pearl Jam w/ Ben Harper & Relentless7 9/30, 10/1, 10/6 & 10/7 Gibson Amphitheater Info THIS WEEK'S TICKET GIVEAWAYS Datarock w/ Esser & Kav Wed 9/30 El Rey Theater Info [ ENTER TO WIN ] The Horrors w/ Japanese Motors [...]
Chris Colls has had the opportunity to photography some big Aussie names including Miranda Kerr, Eric Bana and Rachel Griffiths. Turns out he's also a pretty cool guy to chat to - just as down to earth as he claims some celebs are (unfortunately he wouldn't dish the dirt on which diva's have thrown tantrums on set). Pedestrian caught up with with Chris to talk about his inspiration, his work and how he gets intimate with the big celebrities. Chris Colls will be speaking at Semi-Permanent in Melbourne on the 9th of October. P: You started [...]
Bonnie Raitt It occurred to me, while compiling this exhaustive survey of the Warner Bros./Reprise Loss Leaders series, that we might be giving short shrift to the label's female artists. Probably not, but this is a good excuse to listen to some more tracks from this great promotional series. I know we've mentioned Bonnie Raitt and Maria Muldaur - but we should start with them anyway because they're the two ladies that the Loss Leaders went to the most often. Part of our Loss Leaders All-Star team, Muldaur appeared [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. You may remember WAPS asking if this video (not the one above, in which he "falls over like a twat") was sound-tracked by the instrumental to Robbie Williams ' new single 'Bodies'. Well, according to Popjustice , it's not. HOWEVER! You won't need to wait long to hear the song, as ' Bodies ' premieres tomorrow on Chris Moyles ' Radio 1 show. Tune in from 8am if you can bear it [...]
What's a musician to do when he or she feels artistically tied? Take the often ill-fated solo path or hop out and jam with some friends, and perhaps record a record or two? Sometimes it works, most often it doesn't, but here are ten great offshoots and one-off groups that were worth "breaking up" or out for. 1. Derek & The Dominos Who knew that Eric Clapton's best work would come outside Cream and his own solo career? Oh yeah, that was Duane [...]
( BACK TO PART ONE ) Hell and High Water (1954, 103 minutes)(buy/ rent ) "I shall try my best to make you like me... as a scientist." A private consortium suspects that nuclear activity is occurring in on an island in the neutral waters of the North Pacific. They hire a mercenary WWII vet (Richard Widmark) to captain a submarine for a recon mission. Packed in the tin can are a full crew of sweaty men and one va-va-voomish French scientist. [...]
The Black Crowes announce release of new CD and give fans a free second album 'Before The Frost...Until The Freeze' due in store September 1, 2009 A limited edition vinyl available THE BLACK CROWES will release their new studio CD, Before the Frost... on September 1, 2009. A second album, titled ...Until The Freeze , will be given away for free exclusively through [...]
Rhys Chatham @ Damrosch Park in 2008 ( more by Jason Bergman ) Seasick Steve @ All Points West 2009 ( more by Chris La Putt ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * Weekly Warmup @ PS1 * Seasick Steve @ Southpaw * The xx @ Bruar Falls (free) * US Royalty @ Tribeca Grand Hotel * [...]
- Frequenze Curiosity - Dieci modelli di chitarra che hanno preso il nome da famosi chitarristi. 1 Stephen Stills: Martin Stephen Stills O45S (15,999 $) 2 Lemmy (Motorhead): Rickenbacker 4004 Lemmy Kilmister Signature (edizione limitata a 50 pezzi del valore di circa 10,000$) [...]
Photo by David Greenwald The 20 best albums of 2009's first six months, after the jump. Now with more Animal Collective (and, um, Mandy Moore)! 1. Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health The year's best album comes from its most exuberant new band. Harlem Shakes are a love 'em or hate 'em type act - they're from Brooklyn (strike one), yelpy (strike two) and blend wiry guitar rock with the occasional Latin rhythm (colonialism! strike three). But unlike all most of their [...]
In the past few weeks, I've heard the term "Supergroup" bandied about a lot more than usual. There have been debut releases from Dead Weather (featuring members of White Stripes, Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Kills) and Tinted Windows (featuring members of Hansen, Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne, and Cheap Trick). There have been announcements about the formation of new groups like Drummer (featuring members of Black Keys, Beaten Awake and Six Parts Seven) and The Almighty Defenders (featuring Black Lips, King Khan, and BBQ). There has been a Broken Social Scene Reunion (featuring members of Stars, [...]
Having charmed virtually everyone at Oxegen over the weekend, Elbow make a swift return to support Coldplay at Phoenix Park on September 14th. Meanwhile, Coldplay's new video for Strawberry Swing will premiere on Monday July 20th on Babelgum.com . The short film was directed by visual artists Shynola and features Chris Martin as an animated superhero in a chalk-drawn world (with a killer squirrel). The film will also be shown at ODEON cinemas across the UK from July 22nd, where it will be programmed in front of both Bruno and The Proposal . You can watch [...]
Na escola beneditina, Stills, aprendeu o canto gregoriano, tendo chegado a ser segundo tenor no coro da escola. Mas a sua itinerância não se ficaria por ai. Já na Florida, Stills apaixonou-se pelos blues e pelo folk urbano, um ponto de contacto com Young. Na escola, fez parte de várias bandas, inicialmente como baterista nos Radars. Mais tarde, tocou guitarra nos Continentals, de que era membro Don Felder, que viria mais tarde a fazer parte dos Eagles. Após uma breve passagem pelo Panamá, Stills, tentou entrar na universidade, mas sem sucesso, o que o levou a tentar uma carreira no [...]
From Teen Dream , the Sub Pop debut and third album overall from Baltimore’s Beach House. Here comes 2010. MP3 :: Norway (from [...]More about Beach House
Dentro del pop comercial, dos de las exponentes más representativas han decidido unir fuerzas y colaborar la una con la otra en dos tracks que representan el [...]More about Lady GaGa
Brand new single from Vampire Weekend! I think I can confidently say that there isn’t a Vampire Weekend song that I don’t like. Vampire [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Me siento afortunado de este momento, el Jueves podre ver a Hercvles & Love Affair, el Viernes a A-Trak, y el Sabado a Röyksopp, es una de esas semanas que [...]More about Beck
Hej alla, ett litet kort meddelande bara. Att Animal Collective snart ska släppa ny EP vid namn Fall Be Kind är ingen större nyhet (digitalt 23 [...]More about Animal Collective
MGMT проговорились, что собираются выпустить новый альбом в начале 2010 года, и называться [...]More about Beyonce
So The xx are some guitar-slangin’ indie kid types that I would not typically be into. However, LA-based DJ Them Jeans has given this track a makeover [...]More about The xx
New ones from mixtape Weezy! These are from No Ceilings. Thanks to Mr. X. Lil Wayne - Swag Surfin | YouSendIt [...]More about Lil' Wayne
I tell you man these Swedes are unstoppable with this music thing, I can’t tell you how many times a good song leads me back to the [...]More about Kanye West
Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about [...]More about Passion Pit
The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies
k-os - I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman
nekocasefallon
Animal Collective - Graze (Fall Be Kind)
new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
Friday Five: Surf Songs
