Phish tops the Hot Tours chart with $7.4 million gross on their second leg of summer tour…
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Thanks again to MOG.com, Honda Civic Tour and the band Paramore for sponsoring the site again this month. Word on the street is that Trey Anastasio digs the band, and he’s gone to see them live recently and came away nicely impressed. How’s that for a recommendation. The band is currently on tour and has […]
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Fans release “Radiohead in Prague - 23 08 2009,” a live DVD media extravaganza.
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New tour dates from the original Particle lineup, plus Holy Fuck, Beats Antique and EOTO. Untz.
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I know I’ve waxed a bit on this in the past, but there’s an album from my musical past that continues to have a firm place on my iPhone these days and I’m convinced that not enough people were ever converted to its genius. The album was a self-titled debut from Heroic Doses, put out […]
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If you remix “Madder Red” they will come. This especially spacious slow-jam/soft-rock tweak of the Kristen Bell-approved Odd Blood lament comes courtesy of the Tough Alliance’s Henning Fürst (aka the guy who isn’t ceo).
Kanye West’s official “Power” remix has Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz, and takes a nice detour for the second half, when Jocelyn Brown’s “Love’s Gonna Get You” — her “I’ve got the power” line — becomes the dominant sample. Listen:
Norah Jones has collaborated with a surprising range of artists: Ryan Adams and Will Sheff, Sean Bones, the Lonely Island, Q-Tip, etc. Her next album, …Featuring is a compilation of many of Jones’s guest spots and collaborations, alongside tracks from her own bands and side project (The Little Willies, El Madmo). Luckily, it doesn’t include a DVD of her featured role in Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights. Here’s the tracklist:
Robin Pecknold continues opening shows for Joanna Newsom. The Fleet Foxes head performed some new songs during his 8/4 set at Seattle’s Moore Theater. He’s very likely done the tracks elsewhere on tour, but someone made pristine recordings this time. We have three:
About that awesome, then-untitled Real Estate tune that got us calling out Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” and just about any other referential shorthand for excellence in order to impress its jam-status upon you: Here, finally, is its studio iteration, with proper title (“Out Of Tune”), a list of its extended personnel (recorded by Woods[ist]’s Jarvis Taveniere with “synthwork” by Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never) and release info (out via True Panther on 10/12). Nothing’s lost in translation, all the languid charm and stepped-up songcraft from before, now in higher fidelity. Do it:
