Category: News

  • NEW MUSIC TO COME APRIL 8TH March 11, 2016 – Tegan and Sara have announced their forthcoming album Love You to Death today. Recorded in Los Angeles, Love You to Death is the band’s 8th studio album and once again finds the group working with producer Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia, Beck, Ellie Goulding). It is slated for release on June 3rd while the…

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  • Yes, you read that correctly, Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat For Lashes, is releasing a new album this year. (First Garbage, now Natasha — this is going to be a marvelous year indeed!)  It’s called The Bride and it will be released on July 1st.  You can find the two tracks from the album that have…

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  • Next Thursday, March 17, 2016, the Canadian indie staple Metric will be headlining a the Boston Orpheum for what promises to be a fantastic show, if the many positive reviews of their recent shows are any indication. The previous time I caught Metric live, they were opening for Paramore at the arena at Mohegan Sun in…

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  • It’s coming!!!!!!! Garbage have unleashed the news that their new album will be released on June 10th, 2016.  The album, which is their sixth, is entitled Strange Little Birds and they are releasing it on their own Stunvolume label, as they did with their last album, 2012’s Not Your Kind of People.  The following info…

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  • Below is an email I received from the wonderful singer/songwriter Terra Naomi today.  I can honestly say that Terra is one of my favorite artists and that I’m genuinely excited about her making a new album.  I was just thinking that she’s overdue for one the other day and then this arrived in my inbox this…

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  • Limited edition releases from Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and Ida available Record Store Day 2016. For immediate release: Polyvinyl Announces 2016 Record Store Day Releases Limited edition titles from Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and Ida DEERHOOF – OFFEND MAGGIE   Offend Maggie was originally released in 2008 on Kill Rock Stars, but has since fallen out of…

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  • EXCLUSIVE VINYL PACKAGES AVAILABLE FROM THE FLAMING LIPS, MUSE, MUDCRUTCH, DEFTONES, GERARD WAY, DISTURBED, REGINA SPEKTOR, AND MANY MORE  Warner Brotehrs has released their list of exclusive titles that will be available on Saturday, April 16th, universally recognized as Record Store Day.  WBR, an official sponsor of RSD, is once again releasing  a cornucopia of aural treasures pressed…

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  •   Well, color me excited!  March will bring us new seasons of House of Cards, Daredevil and Happy Valley, three of my favorite Netflix series.  Only trouble is, I’m still trying to catch up on the shows on my DVR.  Oh well, that’s a nice problem to have, isn’t it? In addition to the above-mentioned…

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  • Frontiers music just sent out this exciting press release, which we thought you would want to read… Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce the release of THE DEFIANTS self-titled debut album on April 15, 2016.   THE DEFIANTS is a new band put together by Paul Laine, Bruno Ravel and Rob Marcello. Three fabulous musicians, all with ties to the great hard rock band Danger…

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  • LIMITED SINGLE DAY TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 at 10AM EST VIA WWW.BOSTONCALLING.COM February 18, 2016 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling reveals its schedule and releases a limited number of single day tickets for Saturday May 28, 2016 and Sunday May 29, 2016. After performances by Sia and Sufjan Stevens on Friday night, iconic…

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  • This morning the weekend-long Boston Calling music festival announced its exciting Friday night (May 27th) line-up.  Sia, whose new album This is Acting drops tomorrow,  will headline with Sufjan Stevens and Lisa Hannigan with Aaron Dessner also on the bill.  Friday single day tickets and Saturday/Sunday weekend passes go on sale tomorrow, January 29, 2016,…

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  • EDITED TO ADD: Around 11:30 this morning (January 27th) I was posting a new review and when I reloaded the main page I saw that the soundcloud player for this track was gone, which almost certainly means that it was deleted from Soundcloud. Perhaps he regrets expressing such absurd opinions.

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  • Here ya go, the complete list of everything coming to Netflix next month, which includes one of our favorites, 1999’s Cruel Intentions.  And, of course, there are some things that are leaving, so we’ve posted that below the new goodies.  The shows and movies in italics are things we officially recommend.  But we’re only vouching…

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  • Well, folks, today we have news from Kanye West… He has tweeted the tracklist for his new album, SWISH, about which he tweeted “so happy to be finished with the best album of all time.”  But what the list reads isn’t entirely clear.  We see “Waves,” “High Lights,” “80 Hours,” “No More Parties in LA,” “Fade,”…

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