
Rock Werchter has announced the preliminary lineup for this year's festival, which takes place July 4th-7th in Werchter, Belgium. Blur, Depeche Mode, Phoenix, Rammstein, Green Day, and Kings of Leon top the bill, which also includes Sigur Rós, Band of Horses, Alt-J, Bloc Party, Jessie Ware, Disclosure, Django Django, Two Door Cinema Club, Of Monsters and Men, C2C Graveyard, Editors, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Richard Hawley. Additional artists will be revealed in the coming weeks. Visit the festival's website for ticketing details and other information.

Kjell B Persson It's not unfair to say that Labrador Records has something of a "house sound", and not just for the Swedish accents. With acts like The Radio Dept., Acid House Kings, and Sambassadeur on their roster, they're a reliable source for warm, fuzzy, indie pop-ish sounds and so when they announce a new signing, it's usually worth paying some attention - even when on paper the artist doesn't seem have much in common with the rest of their roster. Or in the case of Amanda Mair , especially when. Not [...]

Carl von Arbin If you require an introduction to We Are Serenades - which you probably do - then let it be known that they are the collaborative project of Swedes Adam Olenius, whom you may know as frontman of of Shout Out Louds , and Markus Krunegard, who led an outfit called Laakso . If the latter doesn't mean that much to you, that's reasonable as I don't think they made it overseas at all, and really, Shout Out Louds is really the only reference point you really need for We Are Serenades' (who [...]

Frank Yang Taking into account how incredibly efficient I was at catching my must-see bands of SXSW on the first day of the festival, I knew that it was a very real possibility that come Saturday night, I'd have nothing left that I wanted to see... and that was almost the case. Thankfully I'd kept a few things in my back pocket and either skipped earlier in the week for just such a scenario or had been putting off for Canadian Musicfest the following week. It's called planning, folks. [...]

Richard Hawley And Sigur Ros’ Jónsi have been announced as the latest additions to this year's Latitude Festival line-up.
por João Oliveira Acho que olhando a primeira e a última música da lista já dá pra sacar qual foi a minha intenção. Coloquei alguns artistas conhecidos que mereciam mais respeito e outros que talvez passaram despercebidos pra muita gente. Espero que a audição flua, como uma boa compilação deve ser. Divirtam-se. [MP3] 2Ks Mixtape 01. Pharrell – "Frontin (feat. Jay-Z)’" AKA “a música [...]

Part Two of my countdown of the top 110 albums of the decade. You can find 110-101 here . But for now, here's 100-91... 100. Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter (2001) Sometimes you make something so good with your first attempt that you can never hit those high standards ever again. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly knows what this is all about. As does Pete Yorn. These days he's duetting with Scarlett Johansson and making so-so [...]