Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Usual caveats apply - release dates can go up as well as down etc etc. The autumn deluge begins here. 8th Sep ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE - Journey Into the Cosmic Infern (Very Friendly) ARCTIC HOSPITAL - Neon Veils (Lantern) CALEXICO - Carried To Dust (Touch & Go) CAPITOL K - Notes from Life on the Wire Wi (Faith & Industry) DAVID BYRNE [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Thousands of music fans partied at a Scottish castle as the Hydro Connect festival got under way.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Thousands of music fans partied at a Scottish castle as the Hydro Connect festival got under way.
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Fuck Buttons @ McCarren Pool (more by Kyle Dean Reinford) ATP NY will run a bus from Manhattan and Brooklyn to Kutshers. More info and the weekend's set times and stage breakdown, below......
Soulfull Vibes (Listen) (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
New joint from Mercury Rev, off the new album, Snowflake Midnight and its companion album (available for free download on release date [Sept 30]) Strange Attractor as well as the band's back catalog, stay tuned...
nialler9 (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
This is the soundtrack to your weekend. Whether that is driving down to the Picnic or ignoring the crowds and finding fun elsewhere, this is the upbeat podcast to have at your disposal. Aoife presents. nialler9 Podcast #18 - August 2008 (MP3) Podcast #18 -Tracklisting The Human League - Love Action [Dare] Roots Manuva - Do Nah [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
DOWNLOAD: Mercury Rev - Senses on Fire (MP3) As previously announced, Mercury Rev have two shows (in one night) coming up at The Stone in NYC....Mercury Rev, long known for their pioneering work in experimental music, have confirmed two performances...
IGN (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Band to release two albums, one for free.
The Music Slut (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The untitled release features: 1. THURSDAY: As He Climbed The Dark Mountain 2. THURSDAY: In Silence 3. THURSDAY: An Absurd And Unrealistic Dream... 4. THURSDAY: Appeared... (Mercury Rev Mix) 5. ENVY: An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction 6. ENVY: Isolation Of A Light Source 7. ENVY: Pure Birth And Loneliness The set is out on 11/4. Visit Thursday at the band's official site. MP3: Thursday - Cross Out The...
Chromewaves (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Windsor For The Derby / How We Lost ( Secretly Canadian ) Originally from Tampa but calling Philadelphia home after a stretch in Austin, the latest in a decade-long career from Windsor For The Derby is a understatedly trippy blend of drone-rock and folk-pop with shades of Mercury Rev, Yo La Tengo and American Analog Set. It's hard to tell if they're a pop band with dreams of being astronauts or space...
explodingnow (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
as you are i am sure aware, i ttly love making lists. after reading sebastian’s list of albums for each year since he has been alive, i decided to traverse back in time and point out my favorite albums of the past few decades-worth of years. here is the 2000s addition: 2001 National Skyline This=Everything (Epic) A lot of great albums [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Planning the perfect festival is a classic Sunday-afternoon pub conversation, but for most music lovers it stays just that. Less than a year after Simon Taffe sat down in a field with his mobile phone to estimate the cost of organising his dream event, however, the 28-year-old found himself in the middle of his fantasy made real.
explodingnow (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
1998 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (Merge) Not even a question here. Despite great albums from Elliott Smith (XO), Garbage (Version 2.0), Girls Against Boys (Freak*on*ica), Mercury Rev (Deserter’s Songs), Silver Jews (American Water), Sparklehorse (Good Morning Spider), Smashing Pumpkins (Adore) and Stabbing Westward (Darkest Days); none of those are even close to the unequivocal...
Late Night Wallflower (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The long-awaited split between Thursday and Envy will be released on on November 4th through Temporary Residence. Press release and tracklisting after the jump. More than two years after Thursday first put the idea in their heads, Temporary Residence Ltd. is proud to finally bring together two influential bands from two very different places. Sprung from [...]
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
On January 10, 2008, Lou Reed and John Zorn, joined by special guest Laurie Anderson, played two benefit shows for The Stone, an avant-garde performance space on the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street in Alphabet City that supports...
