Not much at all hitting stores this week, according to Largehearted Boy’s list, so this is a particularly good time to focus on a couple of bands that you’ll hopefully see more of in the upcoming year and who are bold enough to shove their way past the others to be first through the door [...]
I missed it, but I guess some people on the internets thought Kanye West was dead. He’s not. You’d think his million blog posts a day would’ve stopped the rumors dead in their tracks, but meh.
Yeasayer signed to Secretly Canadian for the North American release of their highly anticipated 2nd album. It’s called Odd [...]
Vampire Weekend’s new album, Contra, is due out January 12th. It appears the band were trying some kind of underhanded viral marketing scheme to leak the word out early. Now their “faked” website, IThinkUrAContra.com, just forwards to their official one. Meh.
Do you know which band whips it good and is coming to Seattle for [...]
Wanna feel old? The Smashing Pumpkins recently have been jamming with a 19 year old drummer named Mike Bryne, hanging out in the studio with the kid, and even working on demos with the Oregon youngster. An update on the Pumpkins website states” Billy has been working with young (19) Mike Byrne on demos. Word [...]
In business news, online music streaming service Pandora once appeared to be in dire straits; however, mobile applications for the immensely popular iPhone and Blackberry have given the company a fresh outlook. In addition, the UKs royalty collection agency has decided to cut the rate it asks of online music services, a decision that is [...]
