Danger Mouse and James Mercer of The Shins teamed up to create Broken Bells. Danger Mouse was a big fan of The Shins and the duo first met on the Dark Night of the Soul collaboration album. Their self-titled debut will officially be made available in March of 2010 but the album has been leaked [...] Read More…
The Flaming Lips just released a cover album of Dark Side of the Moon. Theirs is a very cool take on the classic 1973 Pink Floyd album. In addition to the Lips’ hard rock and heavy, psychedelic guitar style that you might expect after Embryonic, the songs feature vocals from Henry Rollins and Peaches. Stardeath and White Dwarfs also [...] Read More…
Spoon’s upcoming album, Transference, is scheduled to be released in January 2010. The single is called “Written In Reverse” and it was released on iTunes today. It’s slowly growing on me but I can’t say that it’s anything special. Based on what I’ve seen online about the song, it seems like their fans are more excited [...] Read More…
Thanks to Eric B for this one…
“Strange Fruit” was originally intended for Common’s album, Finding Forever, but the song didn’t appear on that album when it was released back in 2007. The beat, which is produced by Devo Springsteen, ended up on Cassidy’s album, B.A.R.S.: The Barry Adrian Reese Story (2007) and still features [...] Read More…
I can’t wait for the BlakRoc album (The Black Keys hip hop project featuring songs with artists such as Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, Ludacris, Jim Jones, Pharoah Monch, and more). I posted a little about the project not too long ago (here) and recently came across the two tracks below. I love the Raekwon track and [...] Read More…
“Heaven Can Wait” is the new single from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s forthcoming album, IRM, which is scheduled to be released in January 2010. The song features backup vocals from Beck, who wrote and produced the entire album for the singer/actress. In fact, IRM really just sounds like a new Beck album. CharlotteGainsbourg.com is also offering a free [...] Read More…
Julian Casablancas, lead singer for The Strokes, will be playing a special series of shows every Friday night this month at the Downtown Palace Theatre in Los Angeles to promote his debut solo album, Phrazes for the Young, released last week. The single is called “11th Dimension” but I would recommend checking out the whole album. [...] Read More…
People Under the Stairs released their 7th album, Carried Away, on Om Records earlier this month. The Los Angeles duo are known for creating west coast style party hip hop with distinctively chill, sample heavy beats. The sound of the new album is just as fun and cool as PUTS has ever been. Tracks like [...] Read More…
Thom Yorke announced on Thursday that his new band with Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, long time Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker (Beck, REM), and percussionist Mauro Refosco would be playing a show at the Echoplex on Friday night. I got lucky and I was able to go. The band played songs from [...] Read More…
Eight years after the original 7 Worlds Collide collaboration, The Sun Came Out, a new double album of original material recorded in New Zealand is being released. ”Neil Finn & Friends” created the 7 Years Collide project which started out as live album comprised of music from 5 performances in April 2001. Proceeds from the [...] Read More…