It is uniquely fitting that the man who is being called the voice of Generation X uses cultural debris the way a flasher uses a trench coat.
The highly-anticipated third album from The Shins, Wincing the Night Away, is set for release via Sub Pop Records on January 23rd, 2007. The album was recorded in the summer
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The legendary stage of New York rock club CBGB got its final workout last night (Oct. 15), courtesy of another legend, Patti Smith. Smith — who played her first show at CBGB in February 1975 and early on became synonymous with the East Village venue and the American punk movement that was birthed in and around it — gave a rousing, passionate performance to a packed-like-sardines crowd.
With her loyal band (Lenny Kaye on guitar, Jay Dee Daugherty on drums and bass and Tony Shanahan on keys, bass and guitar) providing a solid foundation, Smith paid fitting tribute to the club’s 33-year history with a varied and fast-moving two-and-a-half hour two-part set. It included takes on several songs by other punk artists the venue helped launch, including the Ramones, Blondie and Television.
Source billboard.com.
British buzz band Forward Russia! has added a three-week North American tour to its fall schedule, which means the group will visit the U.S. twice in the coming months.
The Leeds-bred quartet is currently making its way through Europe and will embark on its first headlining U.S. tour October 25 in Seattle.
The band will play four dates on the West Coast, plus one at New York City’s Mercury Lounge, before heading back to the U.K. for the 10-day MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour with Wolfmother and Fields.
Then it’s back to the U.S. for a 17-date run through the East Coast and South. In New York, they’ll move up to the Bowery Ballroom, and other venues on the itinerary include the Magic Stick in Detroit, Stubb’s Barbecue in Austin, Texas, and The EARL in Atlanta. The band will stay in the U.S. through December 16, finishing at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C.
Forward Russia! released its self-produced debut album, Give Me A Wall, in the U.K. in May. The disc was released Stateside in September.
The group toured the U.S. with We Are Scientists earlier this year and headlined a sold-out Mercury Lounge show in June.
Source pollstar.com.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley will embark on a two-month North American arena tour in January, with dates to be announced. The Chili Peppers are in the midst of the second leg of their North American tour in support of "Stadium Arcadium," which visits East Rutherford, N.J., tomorrow (Oct. 17). Source billboard.com.
White Light White Light starts out like the lovechild of Primal Scream and Kasabian, until the vocals kick in to put that unique Supersystem stamp upon it.
Master of Ceremonies Emeritus Rick Danko welcomes you to the beginning of the beginning of the end of the beginning… To the folks at the Bearsville DMV that snapped this
More accurately, what isn’t Hidden Track? This blog is all things to all people: a warm blanket to a cold Canadian lumberjack wife, a cup of chocolate pudding to a kid who can’t swallow aspirin, a penis-shaped wand to a crude (and painfully unfunny) magician. It’s a boredom sherpa, a mental groundskeeper, a cure for what ails you, especially if you’ve got the measles, the mumps and/or the rubella.
Liberal talk network Air America Radio (AAR), announced today (Oct. 13) that it has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company says the action became necessary when good faith efforts to resolve outstanding debt with a creditor from the company’s earliest days broke down.
AAR says the bankruptcy filing will allow the company to continue offering its complete line-up of programming while it deals with its creditors in the reorganization proceeding.
Source: RadioandRecords.com
