| by Mark Jackson on March 30th, 2009 |
A bunch of big names are slated to play the second All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey the last weekend in July. Lineup is below. Tickets go on sale this Friday (4/4) at noon via Ticketmaster. They are $89 for a single day ticket and $199 for a three-day pass. A [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 26th, 2009 |
There’s a whoollee bunch of SXSW content floating around there on the internet. Google, google, and more google, because it’s one of the best times of year for us music fiends. Here are some links to get you started: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday in photos (via Stereogum) Guide to Pitchfork’s 2009 SXSW Coverage Gorilla vs. [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 26th, 2009 |
Synthesizer Shaikh: A one-man band that sounds kinda like Yeasayer on “The Rise”. He tags it “some mix between electronic, psychedelic, and post-rock.” He started making music in college on his computer with Ableton Live, and spent two years making/mastering his first full-length album, SamIAm. And he’s not charging a penny for it. Get it [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 26th, 2009 |
Talib Kweli and Mos Def don’t perform together regularly anymore, as annoying as it is. Kweli joined Mos Def on stage in February (video), but that was out of the ordinary. Now, we have awesome news. Black Star will reunite for two shows on May 30th at the Nokia Theater. Tickets go on sale tomorrow [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 24th, 2009 |
I think we all saw this coming. Billy Corgan has simply made crazy move after crazy move over the past few months, and apparently drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has had enough of it. Lashing out at fans, defending the Ticketmaster merger, and debuting a song via a commercial? It’s good publicity I guess, but how much [...]
| by Rad Parker on March 24th, 2009 |
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor takes on copyright laws and their importance in the quickly growing Mash-up genre with his new documentary, RiP!: A Remix Manifesto. Gaylor focuses his attention on the poster boy of Mash-up music, Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk, as they both work to make the case that remixing is form [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 23rd, 2009 |
Bradford Cox loves releasing free music via the Deerhunter blog (unless it’s a project he’s been working on that got leaked way in advance), and even with all that touring and Logos finalizing, he’s still managed to record and release some new stuff. “Solo, or ‘The Square’” and “Memorial Corridor” are the two songs on [...]
| by Rad Parker on March 23rd, 2009 |
According to the most intelligent music critics I’ve ever heard, older folks are more likely to be down with Young Jeezy than Animal Collective. As a part of Scrapple.tv’s Breakfast At Sulimay’s web video series, three very seasoned listeners got a taste of new releases from both Jeezy and Animal Collective. First, they get to [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 22nd, 2009 |
As you probably know, Jane’s Addiction is reuniting for a string of tours with Nine Inch Nails (and Street Sweeper, Tom Morello’s side project with The Coup frontman “Boots” Riley), and what a better way to prepare than with a free download of the tour sampler. It features two re-recorded Jane’s songs, two unreleased NIN [...]
| by Mark Jackson on March 21st, 2009 |
Josh Hodges now leads the synth-pop trio Starfucker, and although their 2008 debut album was pretty cohesive, it didn’t quite capture the band’s live energy. Jupiter, out May 5th, should patch that problem somewhat as the band calls it a “sister LP” to their last: most of the new songs have been in the live [...]