Archive: 2008

Yoav, though, is something different. The guy has a voice capable of – or perhaps pushed to be – all things: he sounds just as good singing in falsetto as in a gravelly, crooner-ish voice.

For the fourth year in a row, Gov’t Mule will anchor the weekend-long event with a pair of two-set performances. Mountain Jam will also feature a rare festival appearance by Levon Helm, who will perform material from his Grammy-nominated Dirt Farmer and a selection of The Band’s signature songs. Tickets will go on sale Friday, […]

Arcade Fire, MIA, Justice and LCD Soundsystem are among the 10 finalists named for the Shortlist Music Prize. Also making the top 10 are Feist, Wilco, Spoon, Stars, Working For A Nuclear Free City, and Burial. The Shortlist Prize is widely considered the American version of the Mercury Prize and recognises acts that have sold […]

News broke this weekend that Beyoncé will play Etta James in the upcoming film, Cadillac Records, an exploration of Chicago in the 1950s. The obvious jokes about their respective weights and looks aside, I couldn’t really care less about the casting decision. I just hope it pays her well so she doesn’t have to hock […]

The opening track of this week’s edition is another version of one of my favorite tunes, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (acoustic and electric versions from Mr. Haynes have been featured here too). This one from John Bell and his friends — Jeff Sipe and Leftover Salmon’s Drew Emmitt — came as the encore […]

We’re getting closer and closer to the highly anticipated June 10th release of My Morning Jacket’s new album, and if I were any more excited I’d be humping Jim James’ leg. This weekend we learned that the follow-up to 2005’s Z will be titled Evil Urges. In other MMJ news, Current TV will air All […]

The theft-endorsing version of Napster’s gone. The white-collar pigs shut down OiNK, presumably for good. Fuck, it’s a bad time to be a music freeloader. But all that [supposedly] changes today. Qtrax, a five-year-old startup that claims to have struck deals with three of the big four record labels, will begin offering free and unlimited […]

Photos by Jill Norath of The Walkmen and White Rabbits at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis, MO on 1/21/08.

Bob Marley & The Wailers’ Exodus has previously been afforded the Deluxe Edition treatment. With a previously-released two disc set including extra studio tracks and live recordings from the original release period of 1977, the real necessity of an ‘Anniversary Edition’ comes into question since this latest release adds no new music and only little except in terms of its packaging: a faux grain slip-sleeve and slightly more ornate jewel case.

After Velvet Revolver wraps a spring tour in support of its second album, "Libertad," frontman Scott Weiland will rejoin his former bandmates in Stone Temple Pilots for a handful of summer reunion shows, guitarist Slash tells Billboard.com. STP broke up in late 2002; the band’s last album was the previous year’s "Shangri-La Dee Da." No […]