Photo via ChristianJamesPhoto Friday [all times Eastern]: Velvet Revolver are Letterman’s musical guest on The Late Show [CBS 11:35 PM] The Tonight Show with Jay Leno features a performance by
My Sunday @ ACL partner in crime has returned to the comforts of the north, rested and ready, and he’s posted his own coverage of the Texas festival. But Neddy’s
The Beastie Boys announced plans for a vocal version of the previously instrumental album, The Mix-up, according to Billboard. Adam Yauch (aka MCA) says the B-Boys have their eye on
riginally released in 1999, M. Ward’s debut, Duet for Guitars #2—which was reissued in July by Merge Records—is certainly a low-key affair. Almost entirely acoustic, with a couple of fuzzy electric tracks and the occasional hint of mandolin and dulcimer, the album drifts from track to track in a near weightless manner.
Beantown’s Dropkick Murphys have announced another round of dates for a North American tour behind the band’s new release, The Meanest Of Times. The band kicked off its tour September
Modest Mouse has announced a fall slate of dates in support of "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank." Beiginning with a Halloween show in Spokane, WA, the band
A lot of bands these days have been rehashing the 80s, but very few of them bring anything particularly new to the table. For me, it's really dull to have your own teenage years spit back to you as if it's new, so it's refreshing to hear a band do something interesting with it. Foreign Born are pretty steeped in the 80s, but they are most definitely not regurgitating it back. Instead, they take that era of post-punk, new-wave and pop, dig back to its influences and come up with their own sound.
