“Wrong”, the first single from Depeche Mode’s twelfth studio album “Sounds Of The Universe”, will be released on April 6th, 2009 (April 7th in North America). The world premiere of “Wrong” will be on the Echo Awards television show in Germany on February 21st. The rest of the universe will get to hear “Wrong” on the radio, starting February 23rd. [from depechemode.com] UPDATE: HERE IT … Continue reading NEWS: DEPECHE MODE to debut new single…
After their stellar Laneway Festival performances The Drones will hit the road again in April and May, this time taking Qui (USA) along with them. Qui features legendary Jesus Lizard frontman on vocals and straight after these dates he will be playing shows with the original lineup of Jesus Lizard (woohoo!). Qui released the album Love’s Miracle in 2007. Tour Dates Thursday 23rd April- The … Continue reading NEWS: THE DRONES announce Australian tour…
Confirmation has come through the wire that Ed Kuepper has been announced as the replacement guitarist for the long serving Mick Harvey in The Bad Seeds. Ed has had a long association with Nick Cave stretching back to the early days of his band The Saints and then Laughing Clowns, both of which reunited for shows at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals. Nick Cave & … Continue reading NEWS: ED KUEPPER joins the Bad Seeds…
The completely underrated Magazine have taken to the stage in the UK for a run of reunion shows and live footage has already seeped out onto the interweb. The band is sounding in fine form, check out ‘The Light Pours Out Of Me’ and ‘Shot By Both Sides’. Continue reading NEWS: MAGAZINE back on stage at last…
Those rural minstrels The Felice Brothers have a new record on its way to us in April and it is called Yonder Is The Clock. It follows their breakthrough self titled album of 2008 that came in at number 4 on our top 20 for last year. Apparently the record is “teaming with tales of love, death, betrayal, baseball, train stations, phantoms, pandemics, jail cells, … Continue reading NEWS: THE FELICE BROTHERS new album is about time…
The followup to excellent The Good Life is due for release on March 3 on Bloodshot Records. According to the label’s press release on the new record… Midnight at the Movies is held firm by Justin’s astonishing vision and conviction, yet roams o’er the vast landscape of American music without so much as a stumble. From the deft ear for orchestration and ambient arrangement reminiscent … Continue reading NEWS: JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE set to release MIDNIGHT AT THE MOVIES…
Those SY kids have been finishing up their new record entitled THE ETERNAL between twitters and are set to release it on June 9. It is their 16th album and their first for new label Matador and the album cover is a painting by legendary guitarist John Fahey. 01 Sacred Trickster 02 Anti-Orgasm 03 Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso) 04 Antenna 05 What We Know … Continue reading NEWS: SONIC YOUTH announce new album details…
After the disappointing first round of bands anounced for the V Festival – Killers, Razorlight??? – there is some relief with the latest round of offerings that include the brilliant M83, Madness and The Human League. Jenny Lewis is the odd one out in the bunch but it is at least looking like a more rounded festival and definitely a different flavour to the other … Continue reading NEWS: 2ND V FESTIVAL LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT…
There is a great new trend of taking old videos and re-recording the vocals so they are describing literally what is happening on screen. Heaps of these are starting to crop up but two of the best are Tears For Fears’ ‘Head Over Heels’ and Aha’s ‘Take On Me’… Continue reading NEWS: VIRAL VIDEOS…
This week you get a dose of Germany’s Accept with a live version of their killer ‘Restless And Wild’. Accept were led by the throat shredding vocals of Udo Dirkschneider and they hit their peak with the 1983 album of the same name Restless And Wild. Continue reading VIDEO: Doubtful Soundz Metal Moment…
Ryan announced yesterday that he is releasing an EP for Valentines Day, the big soppy sweetheart! It will be available from Feb 10 and is a selection of his “best love songs”. Drop us a comment and let us know which of his other love songs you think rate up there with these… Extra Cheese Two Blossom Answering Bell Evergreen My Love For You is … Continue reading NEWS: RYAN ADAMS Valentines Day itunes EP…
For all you obsessive Adams fans there is a YouTube channel where Ryan has been posting vids of home and hotel jams with lots of editing tricks thrown in for effect. There are some gems amongst the tracks including unreleased songs such as Goodbye Sunshine and Dear Impossible which is supposedly the title of the next album, though that was the word back in December … Continue reading NEWS: RYAN ADAMS’ CARDINOLOGY YouTube channel
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