Singer-songwriter and pianist Regina Spektor recently premiered a video for the new recording of “Call Them Brothers,” a bonus track on her new album that was originally written by Jack Dishel of Only Son and Regina for Only Son’s second album, “Searchlight.” The video was directed and photographed by James[…]
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Tenacious D is back and better than ever! The new album, “Rize of The Fenix,” is a triumphant resurrection out of the ashes left behind from the flaming turd that was the movie, “The Pick Of Destiny” (I actually liked that movie; I just couldn’t resist the imagery). Jack Black[…]
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Glen Hansard recently did a taping for Sirius XM’s “The Loft” at The Living Room in NYC and a very special guest showed up to sing with him – U2 frontman Bono! The two Irishmen sang “The Auld Triangle,” an Irish anthem written by Dominic Behan in the ’60s for[…]
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Remember how we posted two new Animal Collective songs last week with the hopes of a full length announcement in the near future? Well, it turns out, we only have to wait a few more months for a new album! The band announced yesterday (via a YouTube video) that their[…]
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Florence + The Machine debuted a new video today for “Breath of Life,” her single off the soundtrack for Snow White and the Huntsman. The video toggles between footage of Florence and a 60-person choir recording the song at London’s Abbey Road Studios and clips from the summer blockbuster. The[…]
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Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver played a few weeks ago at the New Orleans Jazz Fest and the festival’s organizers posted some great videos of a couple of songs from his set. Swoon over Vernon’s sweet, sweet falsetto in the videos for “Michicant” and “Towers” below. Bon Iver’s self-titled sophomore[…]
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In memory of Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who passed away last week, Coldplay played a beautiful acoustic cover of the band’s classic party anthem, “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!),” at their May 2nd concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Watch the video and download the[…]
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Snarky Puppy is a enormous collective of about 30 musicians that incorporates a broad range of instrumentation into a delicious stew of musical genres. Their latest album “Ground Up” was filmed and recorded live over 3 nights in legendary bassist Matt Garrison’s new Brooklyn performance space, Shapeshifter Lab, in front[…]
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British singer-songwriter Ben Howard is the latest artist to record a session for BBC Radio’s Live Lounge and he chose the perfect song: Carly Rae Jepsen’s super memorable mega hit “Call Me Maybe.” You won’t even recognize the song after Ben Howard applies his signature style to it. Let me[…]
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Baltimore based art-pop group Animal Collective posted 2 new songs on their website this week! Listen to “Honeycomb” and “Gotham” below, due out as a 7″ single on June 26th via Domino. Hopefully this means a follow up record to the band’s 2009 full length, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is in[…]
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