REVIEW: Anakrid, Joyfear and Pos Load Nihilsurrealisme, Stereonucleosis

December 6th, 2007

Joyfear follows Anakrid’s expansive Rapture of the Deep in kind with a tangential strain of slow, droning malevolence. Its fetishistic artwork is cold and impersonal, drab and unforgiving. A spray-painted textured cover with no discernible thematic pretense houses equally inscrutable music. The fact that it’s a one-sided vinyl-only release limited to 100 copies practically dares […]

[Read more →]

Tags: album-review

The Presets: My People

December 6th, 2007

The Presets‘ Beams was one of my faves of 2005 and I’m eagerly awaiting the new album.

[Read more →]

Tags: video

Led Zeppelin talk reunion with Yahoo! Music

December 5th, 2007

The remaining members of Led Zeppelin sat down with Yahoo Music to discuss the upcoming tribute concert at London’s O2 Arena in honor of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Guitarist Jimmy Page sounds rather confident in the band’s ability to bring it live after all these years, although looking at him hardly instills much confidence. […]

[Read more →]

Tags: interview · link · video

Kristin Hersh forms CASH Music: an interactive mp3 site

December 5th, 2007

Sometimes Throwing Muse and longtime solo artist Kristin Hersh has created CASH Music (the acronym stands for Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders), which is a “new music business model” wherein artists post free mp3’s in multiple formats for listeners to critique, remix, or even produce. Hersh is no stranger to this process, as I was a […]

[Read more →]

Tags: link · mp3 · news

Echo & The Bunnymen to perform Ocean Rain backed by full orchestra

December 5th, 2007

Echo & The Bunnymen have made plans to recreate their monumental 1984 album Ocean Rain live in concert with a full orchestra in tow. The show is scheduled for September 16, 2008 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Despite the fact that drummer Pete DeFreitas died over 18 years ago and bassist Les Pattison abandoned the reunited […]

[Read more →]

Tags: news

RETRO: Blur – Song 2 (live)

December 5th, 2007

Wow. It’s so weird to see them play in such a massive venue to such a massive audience having only ever seen them in small clubs and amphitheatres. (via The Music Slut)

[Read more →]

Tags: video

Simon Reynolds and Ann Powers on the music of 2007

December 4th, 2007

Frieze Magazine (future issue for Jan 08) features a back and forth between Ann Powers, chief pop critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Simon Reynolds discussing the past year in music, from feminism to the handcrafted underground. That’s certainly a more positive angle on the state of (women in) pop. Perhaps what really pains […]

[Read more →]

Tags: commentary · link