New Music: Scott Pilgrim Kicks Butt
Posted on Aug 10, 2010 @ 06:04PM - Add a comment
The new Michael Cera film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has a soundtrack that boasts four new songs by Beck under the pseudonym Sex Bob-omb and two versions of a new Beck song released under his own name, entitled “Ramona”. The soundtrack also includes tracks by Beachwood Sparks, The Black Lips, Metric, Frank Black, and Broken Social Scene, along with classic tracks like “Teenage Dream” by T. Rex and “Under My Thumb” by The Rolling Stones…
New Music Releases: Smashing Pumpkins
Posted on May 25, 2010 @ 05:58PM - Add a comment
Billy Corgan is back with another Smashing Pumpkins album, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope 1: Songs for a Sailor, and says the album “harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins; atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty,” although he does have a new lineup for the band that includes guitarist Jeff Schroeder, drummer Mike Byrne and bassist Nicole Fiorentino. “Each song we've recorded is like its own movie,” says Corgan, who has offered up the album up for free song-by-song on the band’s website. “Hopefully when you put all 44 songs together they'll create a bigger journey that can only be seen when you have all the pieces to the map.” Of course, die-hard fans can purchase the limited edition box set, which is packaged in a silk-screened wooden box….
True Blood: Music from the HBO Original Series, Volume 2 includes new tracks from Beck, Lucinda Williams with Elvis Costello and Robbie Robertson….
Stone Temple Pilots are back with their first album since 2001. The album is self-titled and Don Was produced some tracks…
Jack White’s wife, model Karen Elson, releases her debut album, entitled The Ghost Who Walks and produced by White….
The latest offering from Hank Williams III is called Rebel Within…..
John Prine’s new album, In Person & On Stage, features guest appearances from Emmylou Harris and Josh Ritter…
Be Yourself: A Tribute to Graham Nash’s ‘Songs For Beginners’ features contributions from Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Brendan Benson, and Nash’s daughter Nile Nash….
The SNL skit-turned-film MacGruber offers up a soundtrack that features tracks by Michael Bolton, Toto, The Black Keys and The Hives…
The soundtrack for Sex and the City 2 features new tracks by Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Leona Lewis....
Widespread Panic’s latest offering, Dirty Side Down, includes a cover of Vic Chestnutt’s “This Cruel Thing”….
Sometimes You CAN Get What You Want: Rolling Stones Re-Release
Posted on May 18, 2010 @ 05:45PM - 1 comment
Any excuse to party like it’s 1972! The Rolling Stones re-release what many consider to be their most seminal album, Exile on Main Street, as a two-disc deluxe edition that includes the original 18 recordings remastered, along with 10 extra tracks originally recorded during the Exile era, including alternate versions of Soul Survivor and Loving Cup. “I don't have favorite records, but Exile was always picked out as the best Stones record,” Mick Jagger said recently. “And it is a great record. What's interesting about it is that it has so many sides to it, so many different musical styles, very bluesy, and it has soul, gospel and the other quirky little bits that perhaps you wouldn't have put on a record with only 12 songs.”
The deluxe edition of Glee: The Music, Volume 3—Showstoppers includes songs from the second half of the Fox show this season plus six extra tracks
Drunk Girls is the first single off LCD Soundsystem’s new album This Is Happening
The Akron, Ohio, duo The Black Keys’ new album, Brothers, was produced Danger Mouse
Band of Horses’ new album is entitled Infinite Arms
Bo Bice’s 3 features Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman. "It’s a plethora of sounds that show who I really am,” Bice said recently. “There's something for everyone; country, soul, rock’n’ roll... it's like your favorite pair of jeans, it just feels right."
Nas and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley offer up Distant Relatives, which was produced by Damian and Stephen Marley
Surely we don’t need to tell you who is in Solex vs. Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer, but the new album is called Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown!
Jamie Lidell’s latest offering, Compass, features a slew of impressive cameo appearances, including Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Wilco’s Pat Sansone
The Sadies’ Darker Circles was produced by The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris
Swedish Baroque indie-pop duo Marching Band release Pop Cycle
Petree is a Shiny Toy Guns spin-off band led by Stephen Petree. The new album, Weakness Makes You Beautiful, features STG’s Chris Petree and the single is It’s Always Been You
Friday Night Lights Vol. 2 features 12 new tracks from the T.V. show, including tracks by Jakob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens and Band of Skulls
Duran Duran’s 1981 self-titled debut is being re-released with a bonus disc packed with unreleased material and a DVD of the original videos. The package also comes with a collector’s poster that was used in the original Japanese LP
Willie Nelson’s Rarities 1 includes just that—18 rarities from 1959 to 1965, recorded as either solo acoustic or with a full band.
Charlotte For Ever
Posted on Feb 12, 2010 @ 02:46PM - Add a comment
As the daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg has had a lot to live up to in her creative endeavors and she's met the challenge head on. As an accomplished actress, Charlotte has starred in arty films like Todd Haynes' I'm Not There-inspired by the life and music of Bob Dylan-Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep and, most recently, Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist.
Musically, Charlotte has released three albums: Charlotte for Ever, which was produced by her late father and came out when she was just 13; 5:55, her first adult offering, on which she worked with Nigel Godrich and Jarvis Cocker; and her most recent effort, IRM, produced by Beck. Named after the French equivalent of an MRI, IRM was inspired, in part, by Charlotte's frightening experience with a cerebral hemorrhage, the result of a water-skiing accident. Here, Charlotte tells RadarOnline.com how making the album was cathartic.
RadarOnline: Was it daunting to follow up your last album, 5:55, being that it was such a critical success?
Gainsbourg: Yes, I must've thought about that. But at the same time I was continuing doing film. I think my record company was more aware of that. They just told me to be quick or you might get stuck in the apprehension of trying to do better or saying this will be the last one. So I just thought about who I'd love to work with but then I never thought about it again. Yes, I did think sometimes you feel the second album tends to be more difficult but I could always say it's my third album, which is true.
Conan's Tonight Show Finale Was An "Awesome" Party
Posted on Jan 22, 2010 @ 03:22PM - 15 comments
Conan O'Brien did his Tonight Show swan song on Friday and despite the undercurrent of sadness over his departure from the show and NBC, the mood in the studio was overwhelmingly festive.
"It was awesome in there!" audience member Laurie Wolf from Austin, TX, told RadarOnline.com. "He got choked up when he thanked the crew and he thanked NBC for the 20 years and said don't be cynical, he hates cynisism."
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Benevolent as he said goodbye, the host even told the guests they could take everything from the studio.
Will Ferrell, who was Conan's first guest when he took over for Jay Leno, stopped by to bid the host farewell as did Steve Carell, Beck and Neil Young.
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Young performed Long May You Run that Wolf said had an effect on O'Brien. "It was a great song, perfect for the moment. Conan was sad, you could see he got choked up a little."
Ferrell, as one of the guys from ZZ Top played in the band, sang Free Bird which got everybody on their feet.
Carell got the the heart of the matter, conducting a fake interview with Conan. Audience member Mellisa Perry from Texas said the actor asked Conan if he would work for NBC again and whether his experience was positive, very positive or extremely positive.
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Conan said it was just positive and as for whether he would return to NBC, he responded that he "couldn't answer right now."
O'Brien added that while he cannot host a show for 7 months, he would be his right-hand man Andy Richter's sidekick.
Let Love Rule: Still Rules After 20 years
Posted on Oct 15, 2009 @ 06:34PM - Add a comment
Who can believe it’s been 20 years since Lenny Kravitz’s seminal debut, Let Love Rule, permeated airwaves and college campuses everywhere? The proof is in little Zoe Kravitz—the product of Lenny and then-wife Lisa Bonet’s dreadlocked flower child days—whose not so little anymore, turning 20 herself in December.
