Editorials

Indie mainstay Apples In Stereo have been putting out records for many years, and front man Robert Schneider has always been a sucker for cool or interesting things related to making music. Well his latest realization comes in the form of a mind-controlled synthesizer that he somehow stumbled upon.
A bit of background first from Schneider [...]

Self-prescribed genius Kanye West has announced that his record label G.O.O.D. music will be releasing a song a week, each Friday, for the rest of the year. At this point there’s 17 Fridays left in the year, so one would expect the same number of songs. Two songs have already been released, Beyonce featuring “See [...]

While he prefers to sit in the back quietly during performances with Radiohead, Phil Selway will have to step into the spotlight a bit with his upcoming solo album. Trading a guitar for his drum sticks, Selway is releasing “Familial” on August 30th on Bella Union’s label. This album feature Selway primarily on guitar and [...]

Last month I wrote about a charity gig in the UK that David Gilmour and Roger Waters reunited at, playing a short, 28-minute set, that included hits like “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and more.
The Hoping Foundation, the charity that the guys were playing for, has now released a video of the full set. [...]

Weezer recently announced yet another album, entitled Hurley after revealing its album cover, which depicts the actor who played Hurley on Lost. While some older fans may not be jumping to pre-order this album yet (did you hear the single? My God…), they may be interested to hear that the band may be trekking [...]

Over the past year or so, Beck has be gathering friends in an LA studio to record covers of famous, and at times infamous, albums from random musicians and releasing them free to the masses. The videos of the performances are located at http://www.beck.com/recordclub and serves as a home page to the project.
Dubbed Beck’s Record [...]

Since the Damon Albarn-helmed cartoon band Gorillaz reappeared with the album Plastic Beach, they’ve been populating their website with unique playable games. The most recent one “Escape to Plastic Beach: Chapter 3” features a bit of hang gliding and music from the band’s new album. A few of these games are actually downloadable from the [...]

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In 2009 concert in New York City where the Dirty Projectors collaborated with Icelandic songstress Björk, an EP has emerged from the one-time show’s material.
This project is based on Dirty Projectors singer Amber Coffman’s experience hiking along the coast of Northern California where she spied a family of whales, lead man David Longstreth put together [...]

Since Guns and Roses rocked onto the music scene and shot their way into our cassette players and musical memories, the word Slash has gone from a violent verb to a noun for “kick ass guitar player.” After decades of leading Axl and the boys and gaining notoriety as one of the world’s best [...]