The Counting Crows are enabling their fans to participate in some artistic experimentation of their own. Inspired by the creative chaos of YouTube, the band has decided to make live footage available for download, so that fans can create their own music videos. In preparation of the upcoming release of Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings, [...]
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The NYC-by-way-of-Maryland Animal Collective has unearthed a succinct trove of leftovers from the band’s Strawberry Jam (Domino) sessions. The Water Curses EP, which boasts three tracks from the aforementioned January 2007 recordings, is due out May 6 via Domino. In addition to these songs, however, the foreboding and rather ominously titled EP finds the exploratory [...]
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Wolfkin play music that is as much informed by Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound as it is the Beatles, Kraftwerk, and breezy indie-pop melodies. The PB&J-esque single “Use Your Illusion” oscillates between lush harmonies, dancey beats, ’60s pop guitar solos, and quiet harp and string parts, while “San Pedro” is nearly jazzy in its approach. [...]
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Amie Street, an online music store that features both user-generated content and the content of record labels, has signed a deal with Beggars Group (Rough Trade, XL, 4AD), Matador and Polyvinyl, adding artists like Cat Power, the National and Of Montreal to their website today.
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San Francisco’s Birdmonster has signed to New York’s FADER label, with the follow-up to the self-released and critically acclaimed No Midnight to be released this summer. After spending the last month cooped up in a recording studio with producer Tom Schick (Ryan Adams, M Ward), the rowdy foursome is ready to showcase their new tunes. [...]
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Let’s start with an appetizer: You may all know this already, Andrew is starting his new album and will be spending much of 2008 in the recording studio. This will mean that this will be a much quieter year in the live shows department, but we will [...]
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…we’d like to point your attention toward Mastodon. The band is still working its deservedly workable 2006 tour-de-rock, Blood Mountain, with the distinct possibility of a new record this year. So, even if you can’t handle all the other, erm, mayhem, at the shows below, it might be worth your time to catch Mastodon…
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After a brief tour hiatus, Cat Power will return to North America in promotion of this year’s covers album Jukebox, toting her blend of Memphis soul from 2006’s The Greatest along for the ride. Pitchfork reports the singer-songwriter will paint the west cost with her multifarious discography from Vancouver down to Mexico City. The [...]
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…Such chores are new to Plants and Animals, who’ve only graduated from localized hometown acclaim to a burgeoning indie-rock breakout since a fortuitous signing to Montreal label Secret City – home to Polaris Music Prize winner Patrick Watson – last year. Promotion chores are becoming more commonplace as momentum from the band’s recent, well-regarded EP, [...]
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Multi-platinum Aussies the Cat Empire have announced that they will release So Many Nights stateside on April 22 via Velour Music Group. With a bevy of feats including sold-out tours, appearances on national, late-night television shows, innumerable ARIA nominations and securing the Best World Album ARIA award in 2006, the band has successfully harnessed their [...]
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