Willoughby’s debut album I Know What You’re Up To is the product of LA’s Gus Seyffert. All songs on the album were performed and produced by Seyffert, with a few
Bob Belden’s extensive liner notes for Return to Forever’s The Anthology depict the chronology of the band in such a way that the evolution of the group in its various incarnations becomes very distinct. In the same way, the music on the two-disc collection delineates how the four-man group distinguished itself from its peers during the halcyon days of jazz-rock fusion.
This album is avant garde to the extreme. Tagaq is, after all, one of the only Inuit throat singers to work as a soloist. While throat singing is a vital part of her music, it isn't that obscure practice alone that makes Auk ~ Blood though.
On the heels of last year’s "The Stage Names," its best seller to date, Austin-based rock act Okkervil River returns Sept. 9 with another Jagjaguwar album, "The Stand Ins."The 11
Brooklyn garage-pop darlings Sam Champion are set to release the divine Heavenly Bender on September 2nd, 2008. Following on the heels of their 100% gratis RCRD LBL EP, Bender is
Prog-rock innovators Rush, who haven’t performed on US Television since 1975, will appear on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report tomorrow night at 11:30 PM [EDT]. Here’s a shocker: according to
Last week’s She Said She Said voting reassures something I’ve always known to be true – Gov’t Mule destroys covers. So Mule takes home their first CW trophy and one note about last week: Audio has since surfaced of Mike Gordon’s band performing the song (previously we only had a YouTube) and has been added to the playlist.
Moving on to the new stuff…known for its sexual innuendos and bangin’ horn lines, Sledgehammer is Peter Gabriel’s only #1 hit to date here in the USA. This song comes to us off the 1986 release So.
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READ ON after the jump to see some video of our seven contenders this week and to place your vote for the most deserving band of this Cover Wars title…
Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Neil Young will once again bring Farm Aid to the Northeast this September. Farm Aid’s 2008 concert will take place at the Comcast
IFC’s Dinner for Five was one of the better shows about Da Bidness in the early ’00s. Centered on the simple concept of five indie film artists (and, sometimes, old movie vets) sitting around a restaurant table, eating dinner, sipping cocktails and talking shop, the show excelled at heady information, frank dialogue, huge cigars and lots of fancy grub. All of it was caretakered by the charismatic but unobtrusive presence of Jon Favreau.
Well, Favreau can’t exactly call himself an indie outsider anymore after the summer success of Iron Man. Coming on the heels of his holiday blockbuster, Elf, a few years back, it looks like the actor/writer/director/cable T.V. dinner host has a franchise product for the ages. And that’s such a refreshing thing to say about someone like Favreau who wrote and/or directed small gems like Made, and Swingers, before conquering the industry in his own inimitable fashion. Let’s hope he doesn’t become like Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi or Christopher “Memento” Nolan who are still doing excellent work with their respective Spider-Man and Batman franchises, but seem to have lost some of that original storytelling flair that paved the way for those epic cash cow adventures. These films are, after all, based upon pretty fucking…ahem…ironclad and ancient comics that were spun from the colorful pens of their Geek Elders many moons ago. READ ON for more…
Ray LaMontagne one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in music announced today two shows of his upcoming North American Tour. LaMontagne will be playing Opera House in Boston,
