Archive: 2008

Jay-Z will headline this year’s Glastonbury festival, organizers have confirmed. The event’s boss Michael Eavis had previously kicked off speculation as to who would top the bill on the Pyramid Stage this year saying he had booked a big black artist from New York. Now Eavis has confirmed as NME.COM speculated at the time, that […]

The Brian Jonestown Massacre will release a new album later this year. ‘My Bloody Underground’, out on March 31, was recorded in Liverpool and Reykjavik, in August then October respectively last year. In a statement, the retro rockers, the subject of the infamous 2004 documentary ‘Dig!’, promised that the new album would be “experimental” and […]

Colin Meloy, lead singer/songwriter for The Decemberists, will embark on a solo tour of the United States on April 7th.  Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson will be the supporting act. The tour coincides with the release of his debut solo album, Colin Meloy Sings Live! – due out April 8th on Kill Rock Stars. Available in both CD […]

The 6th Annual Joshua Tree Music Festival set to take place May 16-18,  has announced the latest additions to the line up:  GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY,,JJ GREY & MOFRO, TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE,  LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII,  BLVD w/ MC SOULEYE . FESTIVAL LINE UP (more tba) IVAN NEVILLES’ DUMPSTAPHUNK GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY JJ GREY & MOFRO TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE ON […]

$14.50 for a movie isn’t exactly cheap, in fact you can pick up a DVD at Best Buy for less.  But a 3-D IMAX film billed as the first live-action movie shot, produced and exhibited solely in digital 3-D, $14.50 for a thrilling hour and a half front-row concert seat is a deal.  And if you’re a U2 fan and Bono’s inflated persona jumping into your Goobers doesn’t weird you out, than U2 3D is as good as it gets.

Some 10 or 11 hours from now we’ll find out whether the New England Patriots celebrate as the first 19-0 team in professional football or whether they’ve blown a golden opportunity to run the table and be immortalized as the best team ever. But one thing is for certain: New England is a terrible place […]

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey re-awakens on April 8 with Lil Tae Rides Again, their most experimental, idiosyncratic and mind-expanding album yet. The new recording–the band’s fourth on HYENA Records and first studio effort in three years–will surprise even those predisposed to JFJO’s mercurial nature. Electronic music eccentric Tae Meyulks was called upon to produce. He and JFJO tracked, […]

This year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival didn’t really feature that much bluegrass, but this week’s episode of Austin City Limits focuses on some of the best traditional style performances from last October’s festival. Check out this weekend’s special edition of ACL to see Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Earl Scruggs […]

You’ll see this all over the place today, and with good reason: It rocks. [youtube]4KUowJzpgxs[/youtube] Man, that is just funny shit. Silverman fan or Silverman hater, that’s comedy.

I depart for the United Kingdom two weeks from tonight, and I can barely contain my anticipatory excitement. I’m trying not to pee my pants, though that plan failed once last night and again on the subway this morning (sorry, elderly Asian woman to my right). So in honor of this free-flowing schoolboy expectancy surrounding […]