Citing a conversation he had recently, Gorilla vs. Bear concluded of the new video, “This stuff is tailor-made for those of us that grew up on cheesy, over-the-top, early ’80s TV music.” I agree despite having not necessarily grown up on cheesy, over-the-top, early ’80s TV music, but rather late-’80s to early ’90s cheesy, [...]
Chromewaves recently dismissed dismissing the latest Editors’ track, “As a faux music critic, it would make my life much easier if I were able to, in good conscience, dismiss them as Interpol knock-offs and go on with my day… but I can’t.” True, the similarities are blazing at times, but I too cannot help [...]
You Ain’t No Picasso has posted a few photos from Tapes ‘n Tapes’ Lollapalooza performance; also included, a video of one of the band’s new songs. (You Ain’t No Picasso)
Indie rock darlings Shout Out Louds will be headlining a show at the Fine Line this October. (Brooklyn Vegan)
The on again/off again David Lee Roth/Van [...]
When not making Frank Miller-esque videos with Timbaland The Hives apparently spent a bit of time recording a few tracks of their own, this time around for the follow up to 2004’s mediocre Tyrannosaurus Hives entitled The Back and White Album. The album’s lead single, “Tick Tick Boom,” should be receiving quite a bit [...]
Monday August 13
T.I. @ Myth (Audio)
Tuesday August 14
The Umbrellas @ 7th St. Entry (Audio)
Marilyn Manson & Slayer @ Xcel Energy Center (Audio)
Reel Big Fish & Less Than Jake @ Myth (Audio)
Thursday August 16
Killarmy @ Foundation (Audio)
Saturday August 18
Au Revoir Simone @ 7th St. Entry (Audio)
Satellite Party @ Fine Line Music Café (Audio)
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Monday August 13
White Rabbits on The Late Show with David Letterman (R) (Audio)
The Neville Brothers on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (R) (Audio)
Brother Ali on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (Audio)
Jesse Malin on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (R) (Audio)
Lily Allen on Last Call with Carson Daly (R) (Audio)
As Tall as [...]
Kicking off the show with “a bit of national rag” Power of Country opened up with a rousing bluegrass introduction before singer Jim Goad (aka Big Red Goad) stepped on stage at First Avenue, promptly sticking his chewing gum to the microphone stand and taking stance with one boot firmly planted on one of the [...]
This past weekend I looped the mezmerizingly lazy video for Devendra Banhart’s “Seahorse” over and over thanks to Gorilla vs. Bear’s post last Friday. The video, concluding after some eight minutes, bounds about all over musically - introducing a slow wavy tease before breaking into a bouncing piano (and eventually flute) harmony. Later [...]
Late last month Spinner debuted the latest Klaxons video for “Magick,” one of the most sporadic tracks on the fantastic Myths of the Near Future. Theme: ultraviolet ooze sprays from the eyes of the captivated band, ultimately overcoming all three members, presumably giving them superhuman powers to make even more ultraviolet ooze and continue [...]
Liars‘ first listen suggests itself to be an entirely disjointed piece, far more so than the highly credited Drum’s Not Dead. Even at its most devastatingly choppy, as with “Leather Prowler,” the album takes a stab at modernizing 1980s alternative (the truest meaning of the term). With that said there is a definite [...]
While KRS-One & Marley Marl presented an album this year representing stories of where they’ve been Public Enemy just released an album telling the world where they are. Who would have thought that below the surface of bloated comedy channel roasts and reality show pimping Flava Flav is still somewhat relevant. That sentence [...]
Performing for the first time as a group on American network television Grinderman blazed through “Honey Bee (Let’s Fly To Mars)” recently on The Late Show with David Letterman. The band features Bad Seeds members Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos as well as the incomparable Nick Cave. Cave, who will turn [...]
Last week the highly entertaining Gogol Bordello eclipsed the Ed Sullivan Theater, performing for The Late Show with David Letterman. “It’s like a party at my house” Letterman joked before introducing the group of self proclaimed gypsy punks. With Pamela Racine and Elizabeth Sun energetically dancing and singing about the stage and front [...]
The unrelated distortion rolls over the beginning and throughout “Katrina,” much akin the sound of a rushing wave steady to meet an onlooking surfer hitching the sea. “Oh Katrina, why you gotta be mean” hurls the group’s members, as if to question nature’s sincerity, but isn’t it a tad funny to think of one [...]
Al Jourgensen is, for all intensive purposed, releasing his final album next month, The Last Sucker. Following the release of 2004’s Houses of the Molé and 2006’s Rio Grande Blood the upcoming Ministry set, to be released September 18 via 13th Planet Records, will bookend the trilogy sharply aimed at the current Presidential administration. [...]
While venturing through Canada, in the process touching base and playing (at least one note) in each and every province, The White Stripes decided that Nunavut of all places would be the perfect setting for their next video. “You Don’t Know What Love Is” captures the territory’s vacant terrain, likening itself to the faraway [...]
Monday August 6
Eisley @ The Varsity Theater (Audio)
Patti Smith @ State Theater (Audio)
Tuesday August 7
Hank Williams III @ First Avenue (Audio)
Wednesday August 8
Booker T. and the M.G.’s @ Dakota Jazz Club (Audio)
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones @ MN Zoo (Audio)
Thursday August 9
Dream Theater @ State Theater (Audio)
Mouthful of Bees @ MN Museum of Art (Audio)
Booker [...]
Monday August 6
Mute Math - The Late Show with David Letterman (R) (Mute Math Audio)
Mims - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Mims Audio)
Emerson Drive - Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (Emerson Drive Audio)
Shiny Toy Guns - Late Night with Conan O’Brien (Shiny Toy Guns Audio)
The Bravery - Last Call with Carson Daly (R) [...]
Bol thinks Finding Forever is horrible and the findings of a recent pol he ran pretty much conclude that most people think so as well; the album being voted second to last in terms of Common’s best. I have yet to hear it in its entirety but the tracks I have heard (”The Game,” [...]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ recent Is Is EP didn’t initially strike me nearly as strong as past efforts despite my initial love of “Down Boy.” But that being said I’ve since come to really enjoy the 5 song set as a whole and despite the actual age of the songs I feel that they sound [...]
