When I was running through my new release list earlier today, I managed to leave out one of the biggest releases! The Gossip are back with their first album since 2006’s Standing in the Way of Control, as well as their major label debut. Music For Men is out today in digital formats, but will [...]
Here’s a news update for all you Regina Spektor fans out there – head on over to her Myspace today and you can hear the new record, Far, in its entirety. The CD will hit outlets one week from today.
For my live coverage of Regina at Outside Lands last year, click here. Check out her [...]
If you’re a Moby fan, you might want to head over to NPR today. They’re offering a free full album stream of his latest effort, Wait For Me, due out in stores on June 30th. In fact, Bob Boilen with NPR says this is Moby’s best album in 10 years. Not sure if I totally [...]
I was in a pop band, but there was no glamour. I had given it my best shot, but I had experienced none of the highs that I had perhaps expected a working pop singer to experience. I’m not talking about snorting coke and laydeez. I’m talking about something else … it’s hard to say. [...]
This is a particularly good week for new releases! It not only includes what will likely land the top spot on my list for album of the year – Miss Polly Scattergood’s debut – but releases from indie powerhouse John Vanderslice, former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker (let’s face it – Pulp is probably not reuniting [...]
Someone went and had a makeover! Lady Sov is lookin’ quite different these days if this video is any indication. After her last album sold a quarter million copies, she had a breakdown on stage in Brooklyn’s Studio B, and was unceremoniously dropped from label Island/Def Jam after having been signed personally by Jay-Z (after [...]
I know nothing about Dead Leaf Echo. I gleaned the basics from their myspace page – they’re from NYC, they’re a foursome, they’ve collaborated with John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, Gravity Kills, Nine Inch Nails) & Ulrich Schnauss (A Shoreline Dream, Mojave 3, Longview) and they’ve just self-released their new album, Truth.
Do I wish [...]
