It’s a slow news day when NME reports that 90’s big beat phenomenon The Chemical Brothers will release We Are the Night on Freestyle Dust/Virgin this June. It’s the follow-up to 2005’s somewhat overlooked Push the Button. Only one show in the foreseeable future will take place at London’s Roundhouse, preceding the release on May […]

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According to ExtraTV of all places, No Doubt plans to record a follow-up to 2001’s Rock Steady, says lead singer Gwen Stefani: “I’m sniffing around with No Doubt; we’re going to record another record next.” And to celebrate 20 years as a band, No Doubt has just opened a YouTube channel with rare and exclusive […]

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Bjork’s performance at this year’s Coachella kicks off her tour a few nights prior to the release of Volta, her seventh studio album. This alleged “world tour” is only running 16 dates, three of which are in New York and two in Canada. Seems pretty slack to me, but that’s probably because I’m annoyed she […]

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With a remix record (Interpretaciones del Oso) having just hit shelves a few weeks ago, Minus the Bear is finishing up the follow-up to 2005’s Menos el Oso with former member, Matt Bayles, behind the desk. Bayles left the band last year to focus on production and has recently worked with Mastadon and Isis. Progress […]

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Universal has acquired the rights to the frist 11 Elvis Costello albums, which run from 1976’s My Aim is True through 1986’s King of America. Despite the fact that two prior reissue sets from Rykodisc and Rhino and have bled Costello fans completely dry in the past decade, Universal claims this new batch will be […]

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Salon has a piece today reporting the FCC’s rulings in regard to payola and internet radio. Good news and bad news. The good news is moron-rock like Nickelback will have an infinitely harder time getting radio play. The bad news is internet radio broadcasters will have to pay royalties retroactive to the start of 2006, which will pretty […]

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Surely, the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Bjork, Prince, and Elvis Costello will outweigh Sara McLachlan’s and Annie Lennox’s self-important Joni Mitchell interpretations (Mitchell herself despises 99.9% of contemporary female artists that cite her as an influence anyway), but nothing can save the presence of James Taylor’s moniker on that CD. Am I really going to […]

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