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
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 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.
Austin 6-piece The Black Angels are thrilled to announce that they have been chosen as direct support for the Queens of The Stone Age on their US tour this Fall.
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
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
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 –
Assembly of Dust are joining forces with JJ Grey & Mofro a run of dates up the East Coast. The two bands will swap closing slots over two weeks and
Like Cosmo Kramer with the Elaine’s friend, the High Talker’s ex-girlfriend Noreen, this story from late Friday slipped right past my news goalie. Queen guitarist Brian May ain’t just a
