Archive: 2010

“Now that’s rock & roll right there,” I overheard a young man tell his friend as they exited the concert. No, this is not 1977, but the band that once held the world in the palm of it’s hand throughout most of the seventies and early eighties has just played to another sold out venue.

Peter Bjorn And John are set to release a new full-length studio album due out on March 29th on StarTime International.  For their sixth album the band chose to work with a producer for the first time ever enlisting the skills of Per Sunding at Tambourine Studios in Malmö.  For a band that has always […]

Drive-By Truckers will release Go-Go Boots, on February 15, 2011 on ATO Records. In conjunction with Go-Go Boots, they’ll also be releasing their documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending on DVD. To preview the record the band is offering a free MP3 of “Used To Be A Cop”.

Partisan Records is excited to announce that Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, John McCauley of Deer Tick, and Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit have joined forces to make a very special record. The self-titled debut, recorded in the fall of 2009 in Nashville, will be released on March 1, 2011. Middle Brother played their first show […]

Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz are celebrating the holiday season in a way that brings out the kid in us, by offering an online advent calendar. So far, the band has offered up soundcheck footage, masks and desktop wallpaper with the promise of more goodies to come over the next few weeks. Here’s a quick look at […]

We wanted to point you in the direction of our proud corporate parents at GlideMagazine.com, who have just posted this year’s Glide 20 listing the top albums of the year as chosen by that site’s staff. Unlike many sites, Glide lists their picks in alphabetical order, so there’s no distinction between the top album and the 20th […]

Over the last five nights, Yo La Tengo has been holding court at the tiny rock club/restaurant Maxwell’s, their home away from home in Hoboken, NJ, with their mostly annual Hannukah run. After taking 2009 off from the tradition, the indie-rock trio have made up for the lost year in a major way, by recruiting […]

After a death in the moe. family led the band to postpone its annual Halloween concert, The Electric Lemoe.nade Acid Test finally took place at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, NY this past Saturday night. moe. used the opportunity to debut five new songs and included a cover of the rarely performed Interstellar Overdrive […]

On Friday, Ryan included Matisyahu’s latest single Miracle in his ‘Tis The Season Mix Tape – which has quickly risen to the top of the list of the best Hannukah songs around (it’s not that long of a list folks). The Hasidic reggae-singer also recently dropped this slightly absurd video for the tune, that features […]

Thursday’s late night lineup has a double shot of awesome with She & Him visiting Conan and Robert Plant visting Jimmy Fallon. Plant will head out on the road with his Band of Joy bandmates on January 18 and tour through February 9. Zooey Deschanel, the “She” in She & Him, will team with the […]