The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Modfather confuses hipsters with this avant-garde giveaway It's come to our attention that Weller and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields have recorded a track together, called 7 + 3 Is The Striker's Name (it's available for free from the Modfather's website ). Join us next week in WTF Corner, as Jedward give away their "surprisingly Dubstep-tinged" collaboration with Rick Rubin ...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Gogol Bordello doesn't need to make their steamrolling brand of gypsy punk any more intense, but if anyone could improve upon their critically acclaimed sound, it's Rick Rubin . The legendary knob-twister lended his magic touch to the wild New York collective's latest, as-yet-untitled album, due out in early 2010. Bordello bassist Tommy T (aka Thomas T. Gobena),...
the defeatists! (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The London Times has a list of the top 100 albums. I actually found ten that I either like or that I might be interested enough to listen to...Rick Rubin has a couple, Bruuuuuucccceeee has a couple, and the highest...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Few would disagree with Jay-Z's boast about being the 'best rapper alive' after hearing this gloriously epic album It was billed at the time as his swansong. During a playback at his Baseline Studios in New York, shortly before its release in 2003, Jay-Z was adamant that after this, his eighth album in eight years, he was ready to pass the mic for good. But no one really believed him. Hova's ambitious...
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
660. B.Y.O.B - System Of A Down (Columbia 2005, Rick Rubin) After the commercial breakthrough Toxicity it seemed that System were on the fast track to legendary status, they could seemingly do no wrong, even the boorish Steal This Album couldn't slow their momentum. However in 2005 they bit off more than they could chew with a double album that would leave to the band going on hiatus and a gross overexposure...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There was an interesting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about Tom Petty: Rock God Or Mere Mortal? "As Tom Petty prepares to release a career-spanning anthology next week, an attempt to determine where he falls in the music pantheon." The basic premise is that though he sold a lot of records, maybe because he was prolific with the pop hook, he just seems to lack the "cool"...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Steve Lillywhite is the man responsible for producing the debut albums by U2 and Dave Matthews Band as well as many of their subsequent million-selling releases. While Bono and Dave have both consistently trusted Steve to fit their visions between the speakers, so have artists as diverse as The Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Thunders, Ultravox, Guster, She & Him, XTC , Jason Mraz, The Pogues,...
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
725. The Blister Exists - Slipknot (Roadrunner 2007, Rick Rubin) " Can You Feel This, I'm Dying To Feel This" that was Corey Taylor's desperate cry on 2007's mind blowing The Blister Exists by the time this track was in heavy rotations Slipknot had consolidated their position as metals première hit makers of the decade, ahead of Metallica and ahead of System, Slipknot ruled supreme....
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
White Stripe to produce rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson.
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Filed under: Exclusive , Spinner Interview Saul Williams is an artist of many talents. He began his career in poetry and rose to international acclaim as the star and co-writer of the film ' Slam ' before making the natural leap to MC. Williams spent most of the 2000s fronting bands that played a genre-busting music that was neither hip-hop nor rap-rock. Further refuting any kind of categorization,...
Mainstream Isn't So Bad...Is It? (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
It's getting to be that time of year. The time for egg nog (preferrably spiked), candy cane colored underwear, and Christmas CDs. I know what you're saying, "It's WAY too early to be listening to Christmas music." Well I say, "Stop bah-humbuging the seasonal grooves and start ordering them now so you'll have them in time to spin for your Black Friday suicide shopping mission." Now...
HearYa (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The Mother Hips have been one of the most underrated bands for years. After a brief stint on Rick Rubin’s label, American Recordings, the Bay Area quartet has had a consistent output of California soul. I’ve always wondered why these guys never get consistent airplay on a station like Chicago’s XRT who has a pretty [...]
Spatula Forum (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
So apparently it's like nearly a new decade or something. Or maybe not. I still get confused with the 9s and the 0s and so forth as to what is numerically proper. But anyhoo, many bloggers lately have been making with the decade-end lists , and you know I love a good list. So how about my Favorite 20 Records of the 2000s'* *By the way I think it's really really weird that now that the decade is nearly...
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
925. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon (Interscope 2006, Akon) " Wahooo , Yeah-hooo " it seems that that one bellow from Akon combined with a super sugary verse or two from Gwen saved her abortion of a second album from complete and utter failure by the smallest of margins. Allowing Miss Stefani to retained her status as a pop superstar. Damn that hook, it's so bloody catchy but...
Jonk Music (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
"I and Love and You" from the album I and Love and You 2009 iTunes Thanks to Rick Rubin's "YouTube research," North Carolina trio Avett Brothers went from finger-pickers in their Concord, North Carolina hometown to the super-producer's new favorite band. The LP Rubin discovered, Emotionalism , wasn't their debut, though — "It was maybe our eighth or ninth release,"...
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