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If you’re a fan of (good) alternative music, the name Steve Albini should ring a bell. If not, you’ll more than likely recognize at least a few of the many bands he’s been in (Shellac, Big Black, Rapeman) and/or worked with in the studio (Nirvana, Pixies, the Stooges, Jesus Lizard and the list goes on [...]

Indie darling Sufjan Stevens new album, which he announced a bit over a week ago, is due to be released in a couple weeks. Recently his record label, Asthmatic Kitty, posted a letter to the public on their site criticizing the lower digital pricing practice that Amazon has used.

Forever the innovator, and extreme vinyl enthusiast, Jack White’s record label Third Man Records, has created a new form of vinyl. This crazy contraption is actually a 12-inch single pressing with a 7-inch single record encased within. Designed and trademarked by White and assembled by United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN, this special release features [...]

This is one of those types of stories that seems like it wouldn’t really happen, but apparently it can. So Much Silence reports that Band of Horses showed up at a recent wedding in Tromso, Norway after the couple had gotten engaged at the band’s show earlier in the year in Oslo.
Here’s a bit more [...]

Earlier this week, Radiohead dropped another surprise on us in the form of a full length, free, downloadable concert from 2009’s show in Prague. The gig was at Prauge’s Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall on August 23, and around 50 fans had banded together to shoot the show on flip phones. The footage was later [...]

Curmudgeon music site Pitchfork Media has posted a Top 50 list of the Best Music Videos of the 1990’s. Scrolling through the lot of these videos is definitely a stroll through memory lane for me. I remember many hours staying up late to try and catch a video just to hear the song itself, as [...]

Always the innovator, Bob Dylan has decided to sell tickets for one of his upcoming West Coast shows in a slightly different way than most ticket sellers nowadays. The tickets for the August 25th show at Warfield will be sold on the day of for cash only, in order to do away with surcharges 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 [...]

Soulful crooner Roberta Flack is returning to the limelight with a Beatles tribute album. She has been working on the record for many months, and it was supposed to be released in April, but delays have kept the album under wraps.
Back in February, when she performed at the Grammys, she spoke about the album.
I’m doing [...]