Anti- has announced a new stage musical from Tom Waits and Robert Wilson. This will be the 4th musical to come out of this collaboration. The first three were Alice in Wonderland, Woyzeck and The Black Rider. The untitled project will premier in Paris next year. The great new is each of these plays...
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If you follow this blog, you already know about my newfound love for Yeasayer. Their new album is a complete 180 from their debut and I’m really enjoying the new direction. Sleigh Bells is another band I have come across lately that I find very entertaining. I wrote about them in a Found Stuff...
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As reported earlier, Sigur Rós is on indefinite hiatus, but frontman, Jonsí Birgisson, will be hitting the road in support of his upcoming solo album, Go. And this time I can happily say, he IS coming to Denver! Go will be released on April 15th, but you can stream the new single, boy lilikoi,...
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…And that’s not all! They have also released tour dates. Once again I have to say those depressing words, No Denver, but those of you on the coasts have dates in May. I might try to pull off one of those shows, or try to get up to Toronto to see them in their...
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Sad, sad news. Sigur Rós have trashed the recordings of their new album. The Icelandic band’s sixth album, which was said to be almost complete, will not be released. They are now saying it was just a rumour that the album even existed. This sucks! All we can hope for is that someone gets...
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When I posted Tightrope as my #15 song of 2009, I wrote “According to a lot of people, this band will define music in 2010. I doubt that very much. I really don’t like this band.” I am prepared to eat my words; but to be fair, Yeasayer do not sound like that band...
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Radiohead are playing a single show at The Music Box at The Fonda in Los Angeles this weekend. This is Radiohead at a venue that seats less than a thousand people! If I was feeling better and hadn’t just flown to San Diego to watch my Chargers get beat, I would be there! Tickets...
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Brooklyn-based Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller represent everything that is wrong or right with music today. The answer depends on who you ask. As Sleigh Bells, they are performing and posting some lo-fi material that will either get your head bobbing or have you running out of the venue or hitting delete before you...
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The New York Times post an article right before Christmas in which Tom says it’s possible he will release a new album this year. But he also said he might be making shit up. Good to see he hasn’t changed. The good news is that Kathleen Brennan is involved, so those rumours about them...
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Spencer Krug. Lead singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for the amazing Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. Also a member of Swan Lake and a former member of Frog Eyes and the now defunct Fifths of Seven. He has been called the next Thom Yorke (by me). He is the single human being on the planet...
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My favorite mask-wearing Swedes have released the first single off their new album via free download. The single, Colouring of Pigeons, is a collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock and will be on the soundtrack to the opera Tomorrow, In A Year. This electro-opera is based on Darwin‘s mind and The Origin of Species. ...
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