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 [...]
Lots of free new music in the news today! Sup Pop band Fruit Bats, who have finished their latest album (which they previewed on KEXP earlier this year), are offering the title track of the forthcoming album, The Ruminant Band:
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band (MP3)
NYC dance post-punkers The Rapture have announced the departure [...]
Carson Daly was doing his new show from Seattle last week, and while he was visiting Sub Pop, our own DJ Sharlese tweeted that he should come here… so he did! Check out the video of Carson at KEXP meeting Sharlese, Kevin Cole, Rachel Ratner and others. “It’s kinda cool” he was here! (The KEXP [...]
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 case you missed it, the shortlist for the 33 1/3 series was revealed over the weekend and reactions have been far from positive. As Prefix Mag points out, much of the list — including albums from AC/DC, The Beatles, Bowie, etc. — is comprised of bands that have had titles in the series before [...]
