Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow has announced that the band is one day away from completing their third full-length album. In a posting today (October 23) on the band’s website, Barrow wrote
Lotus will release Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed. The album consists of 12 remixes by producers including DFA Records artist Juan Maclean, DJ Harry, and Lotus’s own Jesse Miller. Lotus’s
An assortment of B-Sides, early demos and previously unreleased tracks from Gorillaz will be released next month. ‘D-Sides’ will come out November 20 and includes War Child song ‘Hong Kong’,
On their third studio album, Mr. Patterson’s Hat (the title is a tribute to a local auto mechanic who haunts the local bars and music venues), Papa Grows Funk mostly does it right, displaying great respect for the musical traditions of the Crescent City, from funk to blues to R&B to jazz and beyond.
It’s perfectly appropriate Jorma Kaukonen writes the brief liner notes to this recently exhumed Jefferson Airplane concert recording. Sweeping Up the Spotlight documents Jefferson Airplane just as it was fracturing along the fault line that opened earlier in 1969 when the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter launched Hot Tuna with bassist Jack Casady.
Madison Square Garden could to be demolished and rebuilt two blocks away, if a new development plan gets the go ahead in New York. The legendary arena is part of
As we discussed earlier this morning, the popular file-sharing and questionably legal OiNK site came down when British and Dutch authorities arrested the alleged 24-year-old proprietor, who lives in Middlesbrough
LiveDownloads sells live concert recordings from some of the biggest touring acts in the country, but they also feature smaller bands like The Wood Brothers.
Oliver and Chris Wood formed the aptly named Wood Brothers in 2005 after a long geographical separation kept the familial duo from collaborating. Their debut album, Ways Not To Lose, is a well-crafted collection of songs, but the band displays more passionate emotion and grit on the LiveDownloads recording of their show from the Newport Folk Festival on August 6th, 2006.
Oliver and Chris grew up in Boulder, Colorado, until each brother went their own way to start their careers as musicians. Chris settled in New York City, where he formed Medeski, Martin and Wood in 1991. Oliver’s path took him to Atlanta, where he honed his guitar and vocal stylings as the leader of King Johnson. The Wood Brothers reunited in 2005 to form a badass guitar/bass duo that blends a potent mixture of folk and blues, with a shot of jazz thrown in for good measure.
Read on after the jump for more of Scotty’s review and a link to download…
The midday doldrums usually set in around this time, and the only two things that pep me up are the non-dulcet tones of my employer’s biteless bark and a good
Oh, wait, this whole thing is illegal? “British and Dutch police said they shut down Tuesday the website OiNK, the world’s biggest source of pirated pre-release chart albums. OiNK distributed albums often weeks ahead of their official release date. More than 60 major album releases had been leaked onto the Internet so far this year.” Looks like you’ll have to move onto the next music theft palace. RIP OiNK.
