Music

Toast & Jam: Europa by Santana

June 8th, 2010 | Published in Music | 1 Comment

Workout Tunes: Austrian Death Machine

June 5th, 2010 | Published in Music | 1 Comment

Austrian Death Machine’s new video, “I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle” from their album “Double Brutal”. Get pumped!

The Black Keys Release ‘Brothers’

May 17th, 2010 | Published in Music

The latest release of the Black Keys is available for your listening pleasure this Tuesday.

Check out the video for ‘Tighten Up’, co-produced by Danger Mouse…

Ronnie James Dio Dies at 67

May 16th, 2010 | Published in Music

One of metal’s fiercest warriors passed away this morning…

His voice will always be remembered as one of the most powerful instruments in rock, may his sweet soul rest in heaven.

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New Music: The Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards

May 12th, 2010 | Published in Music | 1 Comment

Jack White and friends release the second installment of the Dead Weather saga, Sea of Cowards.

Check out the official video for “Die By the Drop”.

Also, a ‘Sea of Cowards’ full album listen is available on NPR. Both are after the jump.

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Toast & Jam: Tightrope by Yeasayer

February 17th, 2010 | Published in Music

So you’re wishing that you never did,
All the embarrassing things you’ve done?
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Toast & Jam: Love, Reign O’er Me by The Who

February 11th, 2010 | Published in Music

Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea
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New Release: Yeasayer, Odd Blood

February 9th, 2010 | Published in Music

Who’d have thought the psych-folk pile, already teetering on the brink of over-saturation, would peak with Yeasayer’s second album? With the exception of opener The Children, which sounds like a forgotten Fever Ray track, Anand Wilder, Chris Keating and Ira Wolf Tuton have gone bigger, better and more cohesive.

Campy 80s synths are tempered by songwriting that’s so strong, you never feel the Brooklyn trio’s drifting toward parody. The echo-chambered ascents, descents and falsetto crescendos glue themselves in your mind, especially on highlight I Remember. O.N.E. hits harder with African rhythmic thumps that other bands are doing, just not this well.

Hopefully there’s still enough room on people’s psych plates for Odd Blood, a masterful follow-up that deserves to get into your ears.

NOW Magazine

Listen to Mondegreen after the jump

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New Music: The Hot Rats – Turn Ons

February 2nd, 2010 | Published in Entertainment, Music

In an era when “cover” often means emasculation via tasteful piano or kitschy synth, Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey deliver 12 blasts of stylistic tinkering that never subsume the songs’ original intent: to rock. Slathered in amp-busting fuzz and gussied up with signal interference courtesy of Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Turn Ons leaves certain classics (the Kinks’ “Big Sky”) intact — but louder. The best remakes, though, surprise: On “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!),” the Beastie Boys become falsetto-voiced psych shamans, and most amazingly, the Doors (”The Crystal Ship”) turn awesome with the magic of tectonic feedback.

Spin

Check out the Hot Rats performing live on the David Letterman Show after the jump…
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Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz Top Coachella 2010 Lineup

January 19th, 2010 | Published in Music

Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz will headline the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 16-18 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Also confirmed are LCD Soundsystem, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Pavement and the Specials.
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