MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, today announced the Spring 2008 MySpace Music Tour, featuring the Grammy-nominated French electronic duo JUSTICE with support from Diplo, DJ Mehdi, Chromeo, Busy P and Fancy on select dates. Anyone that was paying any attention to music last year should not be surprised with JUSTICE’s headlining position. The band has dominated the electronic scene for the past year, gaining world wide recognition for their unique blend of dance-pop. The spring tour will kick...
Austin-based metal band The Sword announced today that they have completed work on their long-awaited follow-up to Age of Winters, titled Gods of the Earth. It’s set for an April 1, 2008 release via diverse NYC label Kemado Records. Recorded at Folkvang Studios in Austin, Gods of the Earth needed to be a huge step up from what one would hope not to be a sophomore slump. They toured and toured for the past few years, generating tons of momentum...
Alright, alright, so 2007 was not a great year for the corporate machine. Sales of albums slumped and only the promise of an uninterrupted string of 5th-grade level ringtone rap songs has given the labels any peace. Oh, that and the honorable RIAA totally screwed that dame in Duluth for illegally downloading the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris.” We got $220,000, and the added bonus that we can make fun of her for liking that piece of crap. So what if...
My name is Daryl, but you can call me Darko. My friends do anyway. I'm a bit of an old geezer (49 years young), and yeah, I've been a deadbeat too. I've been in love with rock music since I started listening to San Francisco's rock station KYA back in 1965. The first record I ever got was the Flowers LP by the Rolling Stones. My dad gave it to me. The first band I ever loved though was The...
Retro-prog. Is there anything original left to be discovered in the world of rock ‘n’ roll? Well, if a band will write new songs with new meanings and new sounds, maybe. I want to write a positive sounding review of this really incredible album but there are some things that stick in my craw. Why not create a new sounding progressive-rock sound? Why rehash what has already been done so well over the years? These are new songs, but they...
Vampire Weekend is not a Goth band. They are not a Death Metal act, either. Their songs do not employ the use of heavy guitars or lighting quick drum solos. Their lead singer, a Columbia grad by the name of Ezra Koenig, does not scream into the microphone or pen lyrics that surround death and other dark matters. What they are is a rare Internet phenomenon, made possible in this day and age. Go ahead and type their name into...
February – 29 – Miami, FL: Airtime Theater March – 01 – Orlando, FL – The Social 02 – Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 03 – Chapel Hill, NC – Great Hall (UNC – Chapel Hill) 04 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel 05 – Washington, DC – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue 06 – New York, NY – Terminal 5 (Plug Awards) 07 – Tarrytown, NY – The Tarrytown Music Hall 08 – Philadelphia, PA – World Café 09...
It’s hard to believe that’s it’s only been 40 years since the release of one of the most influential and important albums of our time, The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle. Well, maybe it's not that hard to believe. To celebrate the anniversary of this psychedelic phenomenon, original Zombie Colin Blunstone posted the following message on his personal website colinblunstone.co.uk: By public demand………….extra show added at the Shepherds Bush Empire ……Sunday 9th March 2008, tickets now on...
Virtually everyone in the music industry (including musicians themselves) agrees that there's a certain stigma attached to making guitar-dominated rock ‘n’ roll: it's painfully simple to do; it's kiddie play. While doing interviews in support of Nevermind, Dave Grohl even went so far as to say that Nirvana went out of their way to ensure that the songs on the record were very simply constructed and stark, "like the songs you used to sing when you were a kid," according...
Danish rockers, The Raveonettes, will embark on a North American tour in February in support of their Vice Records debut, Lust Lust Lust. The jaunt will be preceded by a lone stop alongside Blonde Redhead at New York's Terminal 5 later this month. Set to kick off ten days after the record's release on February 19th, the tour will wind its way across the States and the Great White North, making an extended stop in Austin, Texas for this year's...