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http://cdn.topspin.net/widgets/email2/swf/TSEmailMediaWidget.swf?timestamp=1354168399 Pissed Jeans will be releasing their fourth album, Honeys through Sub Pop Records on February 13, 2013. “Bathroom Laughter” is the first single off the album and the first time I heard the song, I wanted […]
“Over and Under,” is the first single from Grave Babies forthcoming their Hardly Art Records full-length album Crusher which will drop on February 26th. The proclaimed loudest band in Seattle have lately been known to play this one […]
Stones Throw Records is re-released J. Dilla’s classic album Donuts as a series of 7 7" vinyl records with a bonus 45rpm with “Sniper Elite & Murder Goons” featuring MF Doom and Ghostface Killah. “The Diff’rence,” is […]
Marco Benevento has a developed quite the reputation as a jazz and post rock pianist around town. In fact, I love his 2010 album, Between the Needles and the Nightfall – the album has a cover of […]
“Before You Go,” is the newest single off electronic dance music artist, JES’s mix album, Unleash the Beat. The song which has been released as a single EP with several different remixes and a radio edit […]
http://teamcoco.com/embed/v/43698 The other day, the sibling duo of Natalie and Eliot Bergman, a.k.a. Wild Belle to perform their latest single “It’s Too Late” on Conan. I’ve mentioned it before but the song deals with the ache […]
So here’s the equally psychedelic official video for Veronica Falls’ “Teenage,” a song which is a pretty bit of 60s-inspired pop. The track appears on the band’s forthcoming sophomore album, Waiting for Something to Happen which […]
Swedish born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Theresa Andersson’s sophomore effort Street Songs was released earlier this year through Basin Street Records, and it has been critically applauded by publications such as Spin, USA Today, the New York Times, and others. […]
a Q&A with Melanie Edwards
As cliched and as terrible as it sounds, we often are separated by six degrees of separation from each other, especially if you work and socialize in specified circles. Indeed, as a music blogger, I’ve […]
We’ve got one last video for Jimi Hendrix’s 70th birthday. Check out this live footage of Jimi performing his cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” Much like Hendrix’s cover of “Hey Joe,” Hendrix […]
Interestingly enough, most people don’t know that Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe,” is a cover – a cover that Hendrix made completely his own. Hendrix’s version has a haunting, eerie feel that brings out the jealous […]
YouTube is a wonderful place where you can find all manner of things. Today would have been Jimi Hendrix’s 70th birthday, and while looking for videos to celebrate the occasion, I came across this great […]
Jimi Hendrix may well be the greatest guitar player the world has ever known, if not the one of the most beloved artists of the last 50 years. Hendrix transformed how artists after him play […]
So here’s Neil Young performing “Heart of Gold,” in the same live performance as the video of “Old Man.” The material at the time of the recording – 1971 – was so new, that Young […]