Dry your eyes kids - Sonic Slang's 3rd (hmm...maybe 4th) hiatus since 2004 is almost over! Originally I hadn't planned on SS v4.2 until mid June-ish (just prior to my illustrious trip to Bonnaroo 2009), but this new Wilco disc...
One more free album stream for the east coast insomniacs club - Secret Machines released its 3rd LP today, a self-titled disc via the band's own TSM Recording. It's playing over at iLike, and dishes out another mash-up of big-beat,...
The Kaiser Chiefs, who've quietly been working their way back into our good graces, are streaming their 3rd LP, Off With Their Heads, at last.fm. The Mark Ronson-produced disc is due in stores on 10.20.
Though the folks at MySpace Music already have a ready-made tagline in the McDonalds-esque "Over a Billion Songs Streamed," their artists still skew a bit too emo/mall punk for my tastes. Occasionally though, you do get a diamond in the...
The Clash, who's sure-to-be fascinating autobiography is on the way soon, headline this week's free album streams at Spinner with Live at Shea Stadium. Capturing the band at its prime, just pumping this disc through the PA would have made...
Bob Dylan's upcoming (10.07) Tell Tale Signs, the 8th volume in his "bootleg" series began in 1991, is streaming exclusively at NPR. The disc covers the last 20 years, a period that produced three late-career classics in Love and Theft,...
Ben Folds' 3rd solo LP, Way to Normal, is streaming at MySpace this week. Though lead single "You Don't Know Me" (featuring Regina Spektor) heads off towards a more pop/R&B vibe than usual, the rest of the disc is classic...
Things have been a bit "meh" in the land of free album streams lately, so it's good to see AOL back on the ball with a triple threat of quality tunage in The Streets' Everything is Borrowed (left) and Ragged...
Spinner's got a nice batch of album streams up this week, led by The Verve's comeback disc, Forth (left), as well as Matthew Sweet's Sunshine Lies, a return to the guitar-driven pop-rock sound that made him a 90's cult favorite....
Summer may be on its last legs, but USA Today is streaming a preview of Brian Wilson's new LP, The Lucky Old Sun (due 9.02), so at least we have a good soundtrack to go out on. Predictably, it's a...
It was a big day for fan's of arty post-punkers TV on the Radio. The Brooklyn band, who's 3rd LP Dear Science is due 9.23, revealed the official album art (left), plus gave us a sneak peak of the album's...
The Stills' Without Feathers was, for me, easily the biggest letdown of 2006. Not that the album was horrible, but coming on the heels of the band's near-brilliant 2003 debut, Logic Will Break Your Heart...OK it was horrible. The disc...