I had the pleasure of seeing The Dodos play Gilley’s last Saturday. Their set came after a dramatic performance by Imaad Wasif and before a widely anticipated show by The New Pornographers. I have to say … as much as I love AC Newman and Neko Case, there was something quite magical about watching The [...]
Arcade Fire Announce The Suburbs Release Date
Building more on the great news from yesterday, Arcade Fire has announced the release date for their higher than highly anticipated 2010 release. The album will be called The Suburbs and it will contain the two tracks “Month of May” and “The Suburbs”. The release dates are the best part though, The Sububrbs will be [...]
Walter Schreifels – “Arthur Lee’s Lullaby”
If anyone has enough experience to write An Open Letter To The Scene it’s Walter Schreifels. During the late 80′s Schreifels was in many hardcore bands in New York but most notably Youth of Today and Gorilla Biscuits. After Gorilla Biscuits broke up in 2006 he made his way through even more bands, such as [...]
Amanda Palmer Getting Married?
I received an email yesterday stating that Dresdon Doll singer and eyebrow artists Amanda Palmer is getting married to world renowned fantasy and comic book writer Neil Gaiman. I could have sworn that I thought Palmer’s door swung the other way if you catch my drift. That is until my co-blogger reminded me of this [...]
[Stream] Spoon – Transference
As usual NPR has the first listen of some of the most anticipated albums. This week they are streaming Spoon’s Transference a week before it’s scheduled release date of January 19th. Due to a busy day at work I haven’t had the chance to dig into the album yet so I can’t attest one way [...]
Vampire Weekend Announce First Single “Cousins”
Yeah so maybe I spend more time on Vampire Weekend than I really should considering at this point I believe that they are a bit overrated. But something tells me that this is news that you want to hear about. So here it goes. We’ve already heard “Horchata” but technically that is not the first [...]
