You should know by now that The Flaming Lips are making this year's Record Store Day a big one for them. They're releasing a brand new album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which features collaborations with everyone from Bon Iver to Coldplay to Ke$ha. Down below, courtesy of Slow-Nerve-Action, you can check out the Lips collab with Bon Iver, "Ashes In The Air."
The Flaming Lips are planning on making a big splash on Record Store Day with the release of a brand new album featuring collaborations with pretty much everyone in music. Entitled The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends, the album features 13 songs and collaborations with everyone from Coldplay, Bon Iver and Yoko Ono to Ke$ha and Biz Markie. It will be released as a limited edition multi-vinyl set with two multi-colored 12" records placed in separate art jackets… Read More
Bon Iver keeps the love of their new album going with a brand new music video for the song "Towers." Check it out down below as the video takes the phrase "The Old Man and the Sea" to a new level. You should also know that Bon Iver have announced some new West coast tour dates including some with Feist. You can also check those out down below.
I've never been to Bonnaroo. I've always wanted to go but I never had the money/didn't have the time/wasn't impressed by the line up. But I am making it my mission to get down to Tennessee this year for the 'Roo because, dammit, I wanna listen to good music while on lots of drugs. The line up for the Bonnaroo festival has been announced and it's quite a big one this year. Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish are headlining this year's installment.… Read More
Well there it is. A night of winners, losers, performances we hated, performances we loved, tributes to fallen stars and fans bitching via social media about how the Grammys continue to suck because their favorite artist didn't win. So how about we kick off the "who should have won/lost" debate by giving you the list of winners from this evening's Grammy awards? Down below, you can see the winners of the Album, Record and Song of the year as well as the Best New Artist… Read More
The annual Sasquatch festival, definitely a festival that I need to attend in the very near future, announced a killer line up for this year's installment. Recently solo Jack White, along with Beck and Bon Iver, will be headlining the George, WA based four-day event which runs from May 25-28. Also leading the way are Pretty Lights, Tenacious D, The Shins, Girl Talk, St. Vincent, Feist, and Silversun Pickups. But that's not all who you'll get to see at the Gorge… Read More
Well here it is! The lineup that kicks off festival season for 2012 is finally here. Coachella, which takes place in Indio, California on consecutive weekends, will boast the following headliners: The Black Keys, Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg. Other performers appearing at Coachella this year include At The Drive-in, Pulp, Refused, Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Florence & The Machine, M83, Beirut and plenty of dance acts including AVICII, Afrojack, Girl Talk, Swedish… Read More
Here they are, everyone. After listening to many albums over the past year we've whittled it down to the top five rock albums of 2011. Did your favorite albums make our list? Does your list look exactly like ours? Is your list the exact opposite of ours? Watch the episode and find out what albums we call the cream of the crop for 2011. Read More
We're just about done with 2011 and the music industry is about ready to close up shop for the holiday season. But before that happens, let's drop two brand new songs from The National for your ears to listen to. Over on Canada's Q Live for CBC Radio, the Brooklyn band debuted two brand new songs live called "Rylan" and "I Need My Girl". You can give those a listen right… Read More
Well there it is. The Grammy. The award that artists strive to win and the one that bloggers and fans hate. Primarily because, as fans, we feel that OUR favorite bands deserve all the accolades and fuck the rest. But this award ceremony offers us a place to vent our frustrations and reaffirm our hatred for genres and artists we can't stand. There's gonna be a lot of hate for one Justin Bieber again...even if he isn't nominated… Read More