Kim Deal is releasing the first in a series of self-released 7" singles this weekend to coincide with her solo gig at All Tomorrow's Parties' Nightmare Before Christmas in Camber Sands Holiday Park, England. Deal's single, "Walking With A Killer" b/w "Dirty Hessian" will be available to purchase this weekend exclusively at the concert, as it appears Deal does not have an official website...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Karl Bartos, ex-member of electro-pioneers Kraftwerk (part of Kraftwerk's classic lineup) has announced the follow up to his 2003 album Communication. Bartos' new album Off The Record features 12 tracks that were taken from song ideas he wrote during Kraftwerk's heyday (he kept a secret acoustic diary and jotted down ideas while on the road). The album drops March 15th, but you can enjoy a...
Johnny Marr debuted his new single and video for "The Messenger" on November 13th as part of the BBC's Legends Week. Marr's Radio 6 interview was previously unavailable to stream worldwide, but it has now appeared on You Tube. Take a listen to the full interview with BBC Radio 6's Sean Keaveny below - the interview begins with a story about how Marr's brother Ian introduced him to Noel Gallagher...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
On this day in 1991, Nirvana performed their hit song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the BBC program Top Of The Pops. The show routinely featured big name acts lip-synching to their hits, but as you would expect, Kurt Cobain was not interested in miming along to a pre-recorded backing track. Instead, Kurt polished up his crooning skills and delivered an amazingly entertaining performance....
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
NME captured Peter Hook discussing classic Joy Division songs for the ongoing series Song Stories. Watch the video below, plus if you haven't already, click the links below the video to download free remastered versions of Joy Division recordings. The remasters have been pulled, downloads are no longer available.
: Download: free remaster of Joy Division concert...
As reported previously, the Ocean Blue return with their first new album in 10 years on January 15th, and today two brand new songs have been released! The two tracks "Blow My Mind," and "A Rose Is A Rose," are part of the eight song Korda Records sampler. The Korda Kompilation is available to purchase on cd for only five dollars, and a digital version is available through bandcamp. ...
Last year news surfaced about Shaun Ryder's involvement in a new program titled Shaun Ryder on UFOs. The series, which airs on History next year, follows Ryder around the globe searching for UFOs, exploring the history of UFO sightings, and sorting out fact from fiction. According to a new interview with NME, Ryder has been interested in UFOs since childhood and was interested in...
Gary Numan posted a snippet of a new song called "We're The Unforgiven." The track, which Numan calls a "work in progress," is streaming below:
Gary Numan kicks off his U.K. tour in support of his 11 track remix album, Dead Moon Falling, this weekend. The album will be available to purchase at live shows and will likely be available through his official website later next month. Dead...
Monday, November 26, 2012
Midge Ure has added more dates to his previously announced North American tour. Tickets for most of the shows are on sale now!
1/08 - Long Island, NY @ Sagamore Yacht Club
1/09 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe
1/11 - Stafford Springs, CT @ Palace Theater
1/12 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater
1/13 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street
1/14 - Toronto, ON @ Hugh's Room
1/15 - Toronto, ON @ Hugh's...
Quicksand reunited earlier this year for the Revelation Records 25th anniversary and a few one-off shows. Today Quicksand announced dates for a tour of North America, which includes a stop at St. Andrew's Hall on January 11th. The internet pre-sale for most of the dates (including the Detroit show) kick off Thursday, November 29th at 10am and the general onsale starts Friday, November 30th...
Morrissey announced an additional date for his rescheduled North American tour in New Jersey - the new date is January 15th at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 30th. Morrissey resumes his world tour next month with a handful of dates in Australia and New Zealand. The itinerary for the full world tour is posted below.
12/14 Wellington,...
Sunday, November 25, 2012
In the fall of 1991 Pearl Jam were on the road opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers - a pretty prime gig at the time for the virtually unknown band (the Smashing Pumpkins, who also just released their debut album Gish were also on the bill). While on tour, Pearl Jam played a handful of acoustic gigs at record stores, and footage from a couple of the in-stores have appeared online! Roll back in...
Friday, November 23, 2012
A 4 CD set featuring U.K. indie guitar pop gems from the 1980s is expected to be released in 2013. Scared To Get Happy - A Story Of Indie Pop 1980-1989 compiles hard to find nuggets from both obscure and well known artists from the era. So far the tracklisting isn't fully firmed up, but the organizers indicate most of the songs listed below are expected to be included. If you're a fan of 1980s...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
The Dark Flowers - the new indie/electro/alt-country project featuring Peter Murphy, Jim Kerr, Dot Allison, Helicopter Girl, and others - are about to release their debut full length album Radioland. The album is scheduled for a January 21st release on lojinx and is available to pre-order now. Take a look at the track listing for Radioland plus stream their four song ep When Stars Fall...
Parlour Flames is the new band formed by ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead (aka Paul Arthurs) and songwriter/poet Vinny Peculiar. The two were introduced a few years back through Mike Joyce (Smiths drummer) and have played together previously - Bonehead played guitar on Vinny's 2011 solo album and joined him for live gigs in 2007. The band's debut album, Volume I, is scheduled to be released...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Reminder: KMFDM premiere the new album Kunst today - the stream starts at 4pm ET over on the official KMFDM Facebook page.
UPDATE (6 pm ET): KMFDM premiered the song "Kunst" (not the full album) earlier today. Stream "Kunst" below:
Kunst (full album) drops February 26th on is available to pre-order on cd and limited edition vinyl. Don't miss KMFDM on tour in North America next Mar...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Analog Loyalist, the sound engineer who lovingly remastered Joy Division's Warsaw sessions and recently made them available as a free FLAC download has put his magic to work again! This time Analog Loyalist (aka Drew Crumbaugh) took Joy Division's February 8, 1980 concert recorded at the University of London and refined the sound. The concert was previously released in 2007 as bonus content on the...
Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware release a limited edition ten disc set of ambient music (two previously released albums, plus eight discs of previously unreleased material) called House of Illustrious on November 26th. Clarke and Ware recorded a podcast to explain more about how they met, how they record their music, and more about House of Illustrious. Take a listen to the podcast below (also available...
Gary Numan and Officers debuted the second of two short films for their collaborative track "Petals" (the first one premiered last week.) Both videos were created to promote "Petals" and to help raise awareness for the CALM (suicide prevention charity - Campaign Against Living Miserably).
Take a look at the videos below - the first is the previously available censored cut, where you'll see...
The Ocean Blue return with a full length album in January and the first taste of new music is coming next week. Two new Ocean Blue songs appear on Korda Kompilation - an eight song sampler featuring songs from bands on Korda, the label Ocean Blue vocalist David Schelzel founded earlier in the year. Other bands on Korda Kompilation include The Starfolk, Jim Ruiz Set, and Typsy Panthre. ...
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Professionally shot video from Mazzy Star's 1994 performance at the Bridge School Concert in Mountain View, California has appeared on You Tube. Enjoy the band's five song performance taken from the October 2nd concert below:
"Halah"
"Ride It On"
"Flowers In December"
"Leaving On A Train"
"Fade Into You...
Friday, November 16, 2012
Twitter exchange from today that will make you smile:
@andyrourke64 Good on you Andy. Love and best. Johnny x— Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) November 17, 2012
Awwww! Kinda makes you want to give both of them a big hug! Super cool stuff!
If you haven't heard Marr's new single, "The Messenger" check out the single and video below:
...
Adam Ant drops his new album Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner's Daughter early next year and has just released "Cool Zombie," the first single from the album. The full video for "Cool Zombie" is expected to premiere shortly, but in the meantime check out the official video preview below:
The "Cool Zombie" single is available now on iTunes and Amaz...
KMFDM return with a new album, Kunst, early next year. The tentative release date for the album is February 26th, but fans don't have much longer to wait to hear new music. KMFDM announced that fans will get a first listen of Kunst on Wednesday, November 21st at 4:30 pm ET. The band has also posted tour dates for a March U.S. tour. Tracklisting for the album and tour dates are posted below:
03/08...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Johnny Marr is the man in demand! It's been announced previously that Marr will be joining Dinosaur Jr on stage December 1st in NYC, and now comes news that Marr will play guitar with the Pet Shop Boys on December 5th at their show in Salford, England. The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant announced the news this morning today during an interview with BBC Radio 2 and dropped a new remix of their song "Memory...
It's been almost 10 years since Martin Gore released Counterfeit2, the follow up to his 1989 Counterfeit ep. After the full album was released in 2003, Gore spent some time touring the globe to promote the record. A full concert filmed on the May '03 stop in London recently appeared on You Tube. Enjoy all the Gore-y awesomeness below courtesy of FlameXIII. Audio of an acoustic Depeche Mode...
Last November a Bob Mould tribute concert hosted by Matt Pinfield and featuring performances by Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams, Grant Lee Phillips, members of The Shins, The Hold Steady, Superchunk, (and even Bob Mould himself!) took place at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Filmmaker Justin Mitchell spent the day filming Mould and performers prior to the concert as well as capturing the full show...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Noel Gallagher was interviewed on BBC Radio 6 as part of legends week. Gallagher's been asked time and time and time again about getting Oasis back together, and today's interview with the BBC was no different. Here's a clip of Noel's response to the Oasis question:
listen to ‘Noel Gallagher says Oasis won't return’ on Audioboo(function() { var po = document.createElement("script"); po.type...
Damon Albarn helped the BBC celebrate their 90th anniversary today. "Radio Reunited," a three minute collection of sound clips and music composed by Albarn aired on every BBC radio station worldwide today at 12:33 pm ET. Take a listen to "Radio Reunited" below and find out more about the BBC's 90th anniversary here.
Meanwhile Blur return with the CD/DVD Parklive on December 3rd - the...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Johnny Marr appeared on BBC Radio 6 today as part of Legends week and debuted the title track from his forthcoming album, The Messenger. Watch the official video for "The Messenger" below - the song and video are pretty amazing!
Marr was also interviewed on BBC Radio 6 and spoke about Morrissey and their "non-rivalry."
listen to ‘"The opposite of a rivalry" @johnny_marr on writing with Morrissey’...
As previously reported, Ian Brown is releasing a limited edition boxset on December 3rd titled Collected which includes all eight of Brown's previously released albums, two b-side/remix CDs, a 12" LP, DVD, 60 page hard back book with photos and artwork, and a silkscreen print. Brown has uploaded a series of promo videos showing the making of the limited edition artwork/lithograph. Take a look...
Monday, November 12, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Make up dates for Morrissey's postponed North American tour were announced today and the rescheduled Detroit area show is January 24th at the Whiting Auditorium in Flint. Several new dates have been added to the tour and a few shows were canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Fans who have tickets for rescheduled shows should hold on to their tickets (postponed tickets will be honored at...
On November 10th, Ned's Atomic Dustbin played a show at London's Brixton Academy as the warmup act for Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. The gig was a one-off show, though Ned's have one more live gig lined up this year December 1st at England's Civic Hall in Wolverhampton where the band will premiering their DVD Nothing Is Cool for fans after their performance.
As for Carter The Unstoppable...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Trent Reznor composed the theme to Call of Duty Black Ops II. The game and soundtrack drop November 13th, but the theme has leaked out prior to the release. Stream the theme below (via Antiquiet) and pre-order the game here and the soundtrack here.
Meanwhile, Trent's other musical project How To Destroy Angels release a new ep, An Omen, on November 13th. Stream the full ep below and download...
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