Author: Paris365

  • Last year TV on the Radio’s guitarist/keyboardist Dave Sitek started his own record label, which he named Federal Prism. His first release was a Telepath 7″ featuring a remix by Trent Reznor. But this year he’ll be expanding the label significantly with new releases — presumably, albums — by Kelis, CSS, Cerebral Ballzy and Scarlett…

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  • The cover art for The Next Day is the cover of Bowie’s 1977 album Heroes with a white box that simply reads “The Next Day” in the center, concealing 90% of the original cover art by Masayoshi Sukita. This obscured album cover comes courtesy of Jonathan Barnbrook, who also designed the art for Bowie’s criminally…

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  • Japanese singer/songwriter Rihwa teamed up with American singer/songwriter Michelle Branch for this lovely duet, which Branch wrote after asking Rihwa if she’d be interested in collaborating, something Rihwa became extremely excited about, having become a fan of Michelle’s music when she was attending school in Canada.  The mid-tempo, guitar-centric track is entirely in English, but…

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  • The Knife are back.  Next month they’ll release their new album Shaking the Habitual, but in the meantime we have the video for its first single, “A Tooth for an Eye,” to indulge in.  Behold as Farhat and Kakan Hermansson direct some truly awful male dancers, as their young female coach sings along to The…

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  • Here’s The Virgins’ brand new video for their song “Flashbacks, Memories & Dreams,” which will be on their upcoming album Strike Gently, which comes out on March 25th in the U.K. and thereabouts elsewhere.

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  • Vanessa Paradis will be releasing her highly anticipated sixth studio album, a 20 song double album entitled Love Songs, on May 13th.  Benjamin Biolay wrote the gorgeous first single, which can be heard on Daily Motion via the link below.  Released yesterday, it’s entitled “Love Song” and it’s a delightful mix of Biolay’s usual French…

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  • Ladies and gentlemen, Randy Blythe is a free man.  Today, March 5th, 2013, he was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the Czech Republic, a three-judge panel delivering a not guilty verdict.   The trial took six days in total, 4 days in February and an additional 2 days this week.  Blythe had been held on suspicion…

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  • Here’s Marina’s upcoming tour dates along with her new video for “State of Dreaming”: Tour Dates All dates w/special guest CHARLI XCX except * 5/2 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox at the Market 5/3 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom 5/4 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 5/6 – San Francisco, CA – The…

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  • Kate Nash’s new album, Girl Talk, couldn’t be any further removed from her 2007 debut, Made of Bricks. But those who liked the new direction she took with her 2010 album My Best Friend Is You, which featured raw songs like “Kiss That Grrrl” and “Do-Wah-Doo,” will likely appreciate it. If not, well, one gets…

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  • NME AWARDS WINNERS The winners of the 2013 NME Awards have been revealed. The coveted Album Of The Year went to The Maccabees’ Given To The Wild. One Direction took home the not so coveted Worst Band award. Check out the winners’ list below: Best British Band: Biffy Clyro Best International Band: The Killers Best…

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  • Styx are suing their record label for what will surely be thousands of dollars for unpaid royalties. The band has stated that “for every one dollar the band has received from A&M they should have been paid anywhere from two to five dollars.” In related news, the band is extending its midwest tour with REO…

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  • Here’s the new video for Kendrick Lamar’s “Poetic Justice” featuring Drake.  

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  • Here it is, folks, the brand new video for Carly Rae Jepsen’s new single, “Tonight I’m Getting Over You.”

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  • Delphic’s name refers to the oracle of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi. And you would have thought they were descended from such a god based on the stellar reviews their debut album Acolyte received. It was as though they were writing the reviews themselves, they were so unanimously positive. I wasn’t writing reviews myself…

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  • Spinner has premiered a new version of Jimi Hendrix’s “Izabella,” which will appear on the new album People, Hell and Angels out March 5. http://www.spinner.com/2013/02/26/jimi-hendrix-izabella-song-premiere/ From Tegan and Sara: “Just announced Las Vegas, Flagstaff, San Diego and Santa Cruz in April! Most shows on sale Friday, but Vegas is on sale NOW! Ticket links (including…

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