New York City's own Interpol will release Interpol Live, the band's first-ever official live recordings, today, exclusively through thinkindie.com. Thinkindie.com services independent music retailers with exclusive and rare items that are not available via major chain and big-box stores. The six-song Interpol Live EP features two tracks from the band's gold-certified 2002 debut Turn On the Bright Lights ("Obstacle 1," and "Stella Was a Diver And She Was Always Down") and four tracks from Interpol's current...

It has almost become de rigeur for Trent Reznor to release the content from his newest album of the moment to a bunch of DJs and producers, letting them have their way with it and then putting out the results—he's been doing it since Downward Spiral. There's no doubt that the results have been mixed too (Fixed was remarkably weak while Further Down the Spiral wasn't too bad, the Every Day is Exactly the Same EP was boring and so...

Apparently Ryan Adams & The Cardinals can’t get enough of the road and will be continuing their recent string of some of the best-reviewed performances of their career on a west coast tour this winter. These dates will start in mid-January and last through the end of the month. The west coast tour extends what has already been an immensely productive year for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. In addition to their unanimously acclaimed new album Easy Tiger, the band...

2007 proved to be a stellar year for the remix. From the ludicrous, but nonetheless “we taking over” boldness of DJ Khaled’s “I’m So Hood (Remix)” to the unending abundance of the many reinterpretations of Justice’s “D.A.N.C.E.” (winner goes to Les Rythmes Digitales…sorry Spank Rock and Mos Def), 07 brought its fair share of arpeggios, with each and every one peaking at RSVP-required social gatherings, or if you’re lucky, a party mix a pal might’ve made for you....

There’s something to be said about going to a concert by yourself. Because I tend to hate those obligatory awkward moments standing by myself and pretending to check phone messages I don’t really have—I usually travel with a small entourage. But since the teeny venue sold out quickly (the performance was a rescheduled date after the summer cancellations due to Silverchair’s Daniel Johns’ throat infection), I was forced to suck it up and rock it solo. And you know what?...

There's a dark pall that hangs over the world inhabited by The Cape May. Clinton St. John's slow shuffle of a voice on Glass Mountain Roads invites comparisons to Will Oldham, specifically his Superwolf collaboration with Matt Sweeney, all dour and emotive. The stories—and they are stories—in each track are inflected with the kind of hope that seems destined to fade into the bitter grind of unfulfilled promise. Guitar heroics and drum frenzies aren't going to be heard here; rather,...

Insiders in the music industry have been saying it for quite some time now in hushed and worried tones but, with the release of The Artist Life's new EP, Living, there's no doubt about it and musicians have caught on too: the music business—and more specifically the way in which people consume music—is changing. Not so long ago, the equation was simple: band X plays relentlessly for very small amounts of money, attempts to build a fan base and hopes...

It seems like that shoegazy, dream-pop sound of the late 80’s is coming back in a big way… and it’s sure to only be getting bigger as the Raveonettes will release their third full-length, Lust Lust Lust, to American audiences on February 19th, 2008. The follow up to 2005’s Pretty in Black is the Danish-bred noir-pop duo’s Vice Records debut. Released in the UK on November 12th, the album has already enjoyed a wave of critical praise.  The US release...

Post-punkers Gang of Four have released two demo recordings on Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog. According to Allen, the songs, “Password” and “Second Life,” are rough recordings, which he explains, “The aim here is that if you are inclined to follow our progress as we write and record then these MP3 posts will be like milestones which can be used later to compare the genesis of a song against the final version.”   They also...

Let’s say you had a suped-up Delorean with a sweet, one-of-a-kind Flux Capicitor that allowed you to travel back in time. Let’s also assume you’ve always wanted to know what it was like to listen to the radio in 1974. The trip’s a success, Doc and Einstein are both cool, and your wish is about to come true. You turn on the radio and you hear the announcer say, “Coming up next, a little band out of Nashville called The...