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Am 10. Juni ist es wieder soweit. In Deutschland wird eine junge Frau zu Germany's next Topmodel gekürt und eine bislang beinahe unbekannte Band in die Charts gehievt. Wir wissen um wen es sich handelt. Panik breitete sich aus, als vor drei Tagen eine Mail den Namen der Band bekanntgab, die ab nächsten Freitag den Mainstream erobern wird. "Panic Switch" heisst nämlich die neue Single dieser Band und der Schreibende bekam eine kleine Panikattacke, weil es nun absehbar ist, dass ab nächstem Freitag, nachdem alle Germany's next Topmodel geschaut haben, eine [...]
What better way to kickoff the Bay Area summer festival season than with a guaranteed raucous and raunchy Courtney Love? More like it: LIVE REVIEW: BFD @ Shoreline Amphitheatre Video: Live 105 - Fighting to save alternative music. BFD 2008 Announced
Li avevamo visti a Napoli una decina di anni fa, on stage Brian Molko assolutamente fuori forma, 40 minuti di concerto senza anima e soprattutto senza grossa convinzione. Non senza qualche timore, quindi, abbiamo deciso di rivederli in versione live la scorsa domenica al Futurshow Station di Bologna . Pochi minuti per accorgerci che ne era valsa la pena: ascoltando le interviste rilasciate ultimamente dalla band, Battle for the sun , oltre al cambio di formazione (il batterista Steve Forrest ha sostituito Hewitt) ha segnato il ritorno ad un nuovo entusiasmo e statene certi, questo vigore [...]

Silversun Pickups @ Sasquatch Fest ( more by Chris Graham ) Silversun Pickups will be in NYC for a set at All Points West on Sunday, August 2nd. It's their first NYC-area show in a while, and their only NYC-area, public show in support of their new album, Swoon , which came out in April on Dangerbird Records. I say it's their only "public" show because they're also playing a private show two days earlier, July 31st at 4:30pm. [...]

Silversun Pickups have become the first independent artist in 11 years to reach #1 on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Songs chart (Everlast's "What It's Like" hit #1 in December 1998). Their lead single "Panic Switch," has eclipsed songs from Linkin Park and Green Day. The quartet is currently making their way across Europe and will return in August for festival appearances, as well as a string of newly announced tour dates. Silversun Pickups Tour Dates: August 2 Jersey City, NJ - All Points West August 3 Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head August [...]
Above: new(ish) video for "Panic Switch" by Silversun Pickups directed by James Frost. Out on June 26th, it is already at number 2 in the US Billboard rock charts. The band also just announced that they will be playing Hard Rock calling on Friday 26th June and the iTunes fest on July 5th at the Roundhouse. Visit Silversun Pickups on MySpace for more info.
With a distinct lack of time to explore our usual undercurrent of new musical discoveries, here are a few of the best tracks on rotation on UK radio stations at the moment:

Silversun Pickups (SSPU) arrived to some small fanfare in 2007, with their debut full length 'Carnavas' garnering some solid critical support and affording them the not entirely selective 'one to watch' tag. An album with some standout tracks - none more so than sprawling live favourite Lazy Eye - there was still something incomplete.....it wasn't an album that one would necessarily need to listen through end-to-end in order to gain the maximum enjoyment. This is what playlists made acceptable, right? [...]
I've never really been a fan of this band - they're not bad or anything, I think it's something about the singer's voice that weirds me out. However, every time I hear this song I find myself stopping what I'm doing, and I sit and listen intently. Not sure what it is but it stirs something up in my brain, is it just me? Maybe. Thinking I might have to give the new album ("Swoon", which came out in March on Dangerbird ) a listen.

It's no surprise to regular reders of extrawack! that we're cookoo for Silversun Pickups . So when we were given the oportunity to giveaway some SSPU and Xbox swag, we jumped on it. The contest is in conjunction with the announcement that Silversun Pickups will play Guitar Hero® World Tour with Xbox LIVE® Gold Members on May 14. If you're an Xbox LIVE Gold Member and you want a chance to play with Silversun Pickups, send a friend request to the Gamertag "Silversun GwF"and be online half an hour before (9:30 [...]

For years I've been watching Subterranean on MTV2, and before that, the original MTV alternative/indie music video show 120 Minutes . While YouTube has lessened the impact of video shows like Subterranean, I still like to tune in each week to see a handful of interesting indie videos. Much like Sirius XMU's "Download 153 playlist, I don't understand why these playlists aren't archived online, so I've taken it upon myself to do so. This week's Subterranean was hosted by Matt & Kim and featured artists from Green Label Sound. My fav was "Bigg [...]

PJ Harvey and John Parish BBC Maida Vale 1st April 2009 BBC Radio 1 1. Interview 2. Black Hearted Love 3. Interview 4. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen 5. Outro Download Lossless Torrent Here © Davy Minor for Ohmpark , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to [...]

Monday was a very long day - car inspection in the morning, trip into DC for food and drink with some of the DS commentariot, and then the Nats home opener (coupled with the loss of Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych that afternoon). Then I had to do two sets of taxes last night. In other words, I lack the time to properly give you a NMT post. Know this - Silversun Pickups is the big release, Death Cab has an EP getting a physical release, and the extremely excellent Ida Maria album comes out in non-digital form as well. [...]
by charles poladian Round 2 of the Indie News Reel coming at ya! The goal here is to rest your eyes, put on some shades, and check out some of the best new music and videos of the week. Sure, I'm going to make you read a little, but it'll be like Goosebumps when you were a kid; fun. Get your weekend on with the following. [...]
directed by James Frost. Swoon, the new album from the Silversun Pickups, is in stores next Tuesday.
Swoon , the new album, comes out next week.