Jack White’s other band, you know, the one he sneaks into motels with for a little string-bending while Meg’s not around, has stunned the music world by announcing their new album Consolers of the Lonely will be released next Tuesday. Amazingly the set was only finished on March 1st. There will be no preview for [...]
Kaki King Kaki King is kind of the Joe Satriani of indie folkie guitarists. Like guitar wankster Satriani she’s at the point in her career where she has to write actual songs and sing and she delivers on the new album Dreaming of Revenge. Here’s the light-trail-happy video for “Pull Me Out”: Pioneering indie rapper [...]
Malkmus in the middle — of some Jicks This week features the recording debut of former Pavement honcho Stephen Malkmus’ new Jicks — his backup band now includes former Quasi and Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss. They get all granola-y and jamlike with the new one Real Emotional Trash. Here they are doing “Out of Reaches” [...]
Alison Goldfrapp Goldfrapp take a chill pill and eschew the dancefloor with their mellow new disc Seventh Tree. Here’s the video for “A & E” which I am assured does not feature Peter Graves: Edgy R & B diva Erykah Badu comes back from a long lay-off with New AmErykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War [...]
The Raveonettes: Take a picture — it’ll last longer… One of the best jobs I ever had was working in a used CD store in Ithaca, New York. I worked for a man named Sven Smith (if you’re out there in Blogistan Sven, drop me a line) who had impeccable taste in music and entrusted [...]
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