So Moby is set to release his latest album, entitled innocents on October 1st. I dropped by his site today and found a video for the tune ‘a case for shame,’ featuring Cold Specks. It’s highlighted below. Listen – Moby’s coming off one of the best albums in recent years with 2011’s destroyed and he’s already collaborated with Mark Lanegan on a track for this new album. Cold Specks is a perfect vocal fit for Moby’s style of cinematic electronic music. […]
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Kings of Leon, ‘Supersoaker:’ The Singles Bar Review
So Kings of Leon have finally released the first taste of new music from their new album Mechanical Bull, slated for release on September 24th. It’s called ‘Supersoaker,’ and had been making the live rounds towards the end of their tour in support of 2010’s truly breakout album, Come Around Sundown. While it lacks the punch of previous lead-off singles ‘Radioactive’ or ‘Sex on Fire’ (off 2008’s Only By The Night). It does hold true to the promise that it reminisces with […]
Blerd Radio 2013: Episode # (Get) Lucky 13
It’s a brand new Blerd Radio podcast. Don’t worry, no robots were harmed in the making of…
Jay-Z, Magna Carta Holy Grail: Album Review
If you’ve grown up with Jay-Z as a consistent presence in your life, it’s difficult to be critical of him. That might have to do with his fairly remarkable record – although he’s only released a handful of stone-cold classics (Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint unimpeachably, and I’d argue for The Black Album too), he’s released plenty of good albums, with few (if any) clunkers in the bunch. I mean, sure, Kingdom Come and American Gangster weren’t really what anyone […]
Blue-Eyed Soul Takes Control of MTV: 30th VMA Nominees Announced
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The Jukebox Picture Show: Beetlejuice
For this week’s Jukebox Picture Show, we can talk about cha cha, tango, waltz, or the rumba. Or how about one of movie history’s most inevitable mash-ups – Harry Belafonte and bio-exorcism comedy!
David Lynch, The Big Dream: Album Review
Best known for his dark and often perplexing films, multimedia artist David Lynch is back with his second LP of non-film music, The Big Dream. The follow up to 2011’s Crazy Clown Time, The Big Dream very much continues in the same vein as its predecessor. Lynch has recently characterized his musical style as “modernized blues,” and while the song structures tend to follow a blues-based progression, it is once again the electronic elements and overall darkness of Lynch’s music […]
Mazzy Star, “California”: The Singles Bar review
It’s been 17 years since Mazzy Star’s last full length LP, 1996’s Among My Swan. 2011 gave us the first new tracks from Hope Sandaval and the gang via the “Common Burn” / “Lay Myself Down” single, with news of an LP to be released in 2012. The promise of a new Mazzy Star LP was enticing given the length of the group’s absence, and doubly so based on the strength of “Common Burn” / “Lay Myself Down.” But the […]
Placebo, “Too Many Friends”: The Singles Bar Review
British rock outfit Placebo are set to release their seventh studio album in September (9/16/13) and, with every album since 1998’s landmark album Without You, I’m Nothing, I’m always excited. We’ve finally gotten the first official taste of the album in the first single released to radio and the internet. It’s called “Too Many Friends,” and in typical Brian Molko lyrical prowess, it tackles technology and its social effects on relationships. You can give a listen below. Loud Like Love is due […]
Popblerd’s New Release Report 7/16/13
I’m doing this. I really am! This is Big Money’s deal but I’m taking over the “New Release Report” for a little while because, frankly, I miss it. But enough rambling, onto the new releases… We’re in the middle of July meaning…nothing is coming out. For the most part. First, there’s the solo outing from ex-Pantera/current Down frontman Phil Anselmo. I didn’t like it. A lot. You can go here to read why. On the other side of the spectrum (And […]
Metal Monday Volume 131 (7.15.13)
Swelling with this air of Hacride-esque mysticism, “Nemesis of Neglect” slowly devolves into a Converge meets Entombed guitar barrage. Those comparisons continue especially taking on the Entombed guitar tones mixed with a kind of Jacob Bannon style inhuman screech but a little more guttural on “Terror”. Thus begins Heresy, the debut ruckus from Detroit’s From Hell. Moving on, “Unholy” is a seriously unholy merging of time signatures that just might just render listeners mad upon excessive repeat listens. Later still, […]
We Saw It! Paul McCartney at Fenway Park, July 2013
Paul McCartney arrives in Fenway Park and doesn’t need a bat and a ball to energize the crowd!