NBC tonight will be showing a special called Live From New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live at 8 pm. While we’re sure there will be plenty
We’ve got big news for fans of The Boss (no, Papa Steinbrenner’s not dead yet). Bruce Springsteen today announced an extensive fall tour that will once again reunite him with the badass E Street Band. The Boss also announced that Radio Nowhere, the first single from his new album, will be available exclusively as a free track on iTunes for the next week. Full dates listed after the jump…
Feisty Canadian singer-songwriter, um, Feist, played the ol’ Letterman program last night, and she brought a few of her all-star indie friends with her. Joined by members of Mates of
Scotty usually throws out an oversized post full’a music-related links every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But it’s a light day out there, I’m already semi-bored at work, and I thought
Seminal U.K. shoegazer act My Bloody Valentine is considering an offer to reunite and co-headline the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. A tour would follow later in the
Capitol Music Group will release Teenager, the third album from acclaimed Irish rock band The Thrills, on October 23rd. The five-piece Dublin band had recorded its two previous albums –
Danger Mouse has revealed that he is producing The Black Keys‘ fourth studio album. The Ohio duo plan to release the as-yet-untitled album in 2008 via Nonesuch. In addition, Danger
The release of Matt Costa’s sophomore effort, Unfamiliar Faces, has been changed to January 15th, 2008, which will be supported by a headlining tour early in the year. In the
The Brickhouse in downtown Phoenix was more like an oven on a recent Friday night. Many people cleared the room before the headliner Talib Kweli even entered the stage, as the temperature rose well past 100 degrees. Yet Kweli, with his predictably smooth rhymes and easy backbeats, managed to pull off a compelling show despite the elements and those who stayed were lyrically impressed.
ith a title like Viva Las Vegas, I suspect many people's expectations are very low, associating this with the lounge lizard Elvis. However, that turns out to be an off-base assumption. The truth is this album captures Elvis during his second-wind. True, the young, hungry singer from the days before the Army and the movies is gone, but he still had an awful lot of performance left in him and these 16 tracks, all but one recorded live between 1970 and 1972, find his great voice backed by a much bigger sound.
