On the Broken Social Scene website, Kevin Drew has announced that the Canadian collaborative has started record their first record in four years and have decided to do it with
R.E.M. have begun work on new material. Guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills have tentatively demoed 14 tracks for the follow-up to last year’s ‘Accelerate’ LP, according to Pitchfork.
Bowling Green, Kentucky has never been a hot spot of start-up rock bands, but Cage The Elephant, led by brothers Matt and Brad Shultz have garnered a worthwhile buzz as garage rockers, making them Kentucky’s second most popular rockers behind My Morning Jacket.
Colin Greenwood has told NME.COM the Oxford band have begun recording their new album with producer Nigel Godrich. The bassist revealed that the band went into the studio to start
It’s been one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2009 since it was first announced: “Dark Night of the Soul,” a collaboration between the producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley,
Wayman Tisdale, the one-time Oklahoma star and NBA player who recorded several jazz albums, died at 44 after a two year battle with cancer, the Associated Press reports. Tisdale, a
The Disco Biscuits have announced the addition of eight performances to their Summer 2009 tour dates. “The Road to Camp Bisco Tour” will feature a string of late June performances
The first volume of the long awaited Neil Young Archives series of box sets, produced by Neil Young himself. Volume I covers the period from his earliest recordings with The
The extremely hot Disco Biscuits have added eight shows to their Summer Tour Schedule leading up the band’s Camp Bisco three-day festival at Indian Lookout Country Club near Albany. Check
In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around their various websites, and see what you think of these four under the radar musical groups…
BuzzUniverse
If you caught BuzzUniverse’s eye opening set at Mountain Jam last year you probably aren’t surprised that the eclectic group from New Jersey has been invited back to perform at this year’s festival. BuzzU gets people dancing with their high energy originals and diverse cover selections, a quality that acts as an aural shot of espresso for festival attendees.
READ ON for more about BuzzU and Nashville’s The Sways…
