MetroMusicScene.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Pink Jams! , the project started by Christa Floresca to raise money for breast cancer awareness, held its inaugural benefit concert on Wednesday at the Clarendon Ballroom . The event, which was emceed by Miss District of Columbia 2008 Kate Marie Grinold and included an appearance by Washington Redskin cheerleaders, featured musical performances by local rockers Memphis 59 and the Justin Trawick Group...
Chris n that (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
OI... BRITAIN... Sort your bloody ears out! The glorious pop-drenched THE SPELL by the masters of naughties Power Pop Alphabeat entered the charts at #20 - bloody 20!!! Meanwhile the bogus charms of Cheryl Tweedy Cole of course went straight into number one. For fuck's sake people... is there to be no progress from this musical quagmire of tv -related crap? Today I screamed - out loud - when I saw...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Hallo pop pickers and welcome to another edition of Music Weekly, the podcast that showed 1.2% growth in the last quarter. This week's pod is a healthy mix of different types of music. First up we have Chase and Status, creators of choice drum'n'bass and now producers to the R&B glitterati. The duo talk to Paul MacInnes about keeping it real, their favourite beats and working with Team Rihanna...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Jason Quinn Malott's novel The Evolution of Shadows is an elegantly spare exploration of love, loss, and...
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
And so, after remixes and un-PC song titles , it was "Ain't That Cold" that clarified for us that Boston's Bodega Girls are basically (awesomely) dancefloor scions of the Afghan Whigs, a band doing soul music as smutty warehouse disco. We're releasing the song today through our in-house digital label, just as the band Fung Wah it down to New York this week for CMJ. Those dates and others,...
IckMusic (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Friday Five : \ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā,-dē ˈfīv\ : On the sixth day of every week I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn’t. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it’s [...]
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
For those that forgot earplugs, good luck today at work!
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
No major theme this week, folks. Next week, on the other hand, will have a theme very close to me, so don’t forget to stop by for that one. Yeah, next week’s mixtape is gonna RAWK, but this week… Eh. Now that’s some kinda salesmanship right there, y’all. Amorphis – Shattered Within from Am Universum (2001) Eddie Izzard [...]
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Music is a funny thing. You just never know what’s going to take with an audience.
captains dead (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
firstly, our good pals at the line of best fit has launched a bella union takeover week in order to celebrate their 12th birthday. all week they’re gonna have some amazing and exclusive content lined up – including: simon raymonde interviewing midlake about the new record, josh t pearson interviewing warren ellis of dirty three, [...]
Miami New Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Pompano Beach-based threesome Band Number 12 is largely an under-the-radar local act for now. But the band boasts a serious appeal that lies in its overall mood, a sort of wistful, drink-dampened nostalgia for relationships that were probably actually never that good in retrospect. It's no surprise ...
A pint for Dionysus (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
I’m having to listen to a lot of ‘classic rock’ lately. This is temping; you go into someone else’s space and cannot make it your own. You endure the chairs set to someone else’s height, the jokes that go over your head, the subtle -but not cruel- shunning of the temp, who will be gone [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
You would figure that Dulli cronies Mark Lanegan and Matthew Ryan would do their bud well, and they do. Lanegan’s slow, creepy “Tonight” is as much Big Star’s Sister Lovers as it is Whigs, and while Ryan’s “The Slide Song” is a bit too reverent in the arrangement, his killer vocals even add to thepassion of the original. Sometime Twilight-er Jeff Klein is less...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Last night, two of the leading men from the mid-nineties American alternative rock scene joined forces for “An Evening with Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan”. Dulli ( Afghan Whigs , Twilight Singers ) and Lanegan ( Screaming Trees , Queens of the Stone Age ) are long time friends, and last year released the acclaimed “Saturnalia” album under the guise of The Gutter Twins . For such...
Achtung Baby! (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
The Afghan Whigs: Be For Real I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. Words! be sick as I am sick, swoon, roll back your eyes, a pool,...
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