Taking It Down
Live albums are always a mixed bag. On the one hand, a live performance captures the band at its peak, putting everything it has into one hour of savage intensity. On the other, a concert is as much a visual experience as it is an auditory experience, and the camaraderie of attending a show and seeing the band live is always missing from a live record. Diary Of A Mad Band, the latest from supergroup Down, does its best to combat this situation. Read more…
By Josh Neale Posted in Reviews Down
A new Tool album is in the works. Frontman, Maynard James Keenan recently announced that the band is in the early stages of their unique writing process.
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Area 52, Rodrigo y Gabriela’s soon to be released studio album, was recorded in Havana with a 13-piece Cuban orchestra. It is set to be released January 24, 2012.
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Left Brain, a member of the notoriously explicit LA-based hip hop collective Odd Future, slapped a freelance professional photographer on October 30 at The Voodoo Experience in New Orleans. Though stunned, photographer Amy Harris originally declined to file assault charges until Odd Future denied the act of violence against her.
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Fans of the late Amy Winehouse will be pleased to hear that a posthumous release is on the way. Lioness: Hidden Treasures will be released December 5 and £1 from each copy of the album that is sold will serve as a donation to the Amy Winehouse Foundation.
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The Flaming Lips played special Halloween set for a very lucky couple dozen of people in a basement of West Virginia last night . Wayne Coyne even helped the kids make purple popcorn.
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Norwegian electronic duo Röyksopp recently offered 25 minutes worth of free, brand-new music on their website. The first offering is a 14 minute mellow instrumental called “Shores of Easy”, the second an 11 minute remix of “In This Shirt” by London orchestral pop group the Impressionables. Both chill out tracks are available after the jump for free download: Read more…
By Dan Newman Posted in News Royksopp
Spin has recently announced a decision to reduce print production in March 2012 by switching to bi-monthly issues. The magazine will decrease the number of issues published from 11 to 6, and will also see a cut in the rate base from 450,000 to 350,000. After 26 years as a monthly magazine, the publishers say this decision is a response to the ever-growing presence of the Internet as a primary source of news for it’s demographic Read more…
By Dan Newman Posted in News Spin Magazine
Music video director Chris Milk is working on his first feature film, as reported by Variety (via Pitchfork), which was inspired by Dangermouse/Daniele Luppi’s 2011 collaboration album Rome (Parlophone/EMI. The film will also be an adaptation of author Alden Bell’s post-apocalyptic novel The Reapers Are the Angels. Read more…
By Dan Newman Posted in News Dangermouse, Daniele Luppi
Duck Sauce’s new video for “Big Bad Wolf” was recently released. Be forewarned, this video is definitely NSFW, but it is sure to make you bust your gut laughing, and maybe gross you out just a little at the same time. Check out Duck Sauce’s “Big Bad Wolf” video, directed by Keith Shofield, after the jump: Read more…
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