The Bloc Weekend has announced its initial festival lineup for 2012, the first year in which Bloc will be in its new location of London's Pleasure Gardens. They have some great names at the top of the list: Orbital, Flying Lotus ...
The Plimsouls have been around the block. With the chart topper "A Million Miles Away" they became a household name in the 1980's, and the core members are still going strong. Not only are they releasing a live album with never-before heard live tracks, but Peter Case and Paul Collins are taking the show on the road.
The Plimsouls have been around the block. With the chart topper "A Million Miles Away" they became a household name in the 1980's, and the core members are still going strong. Not only are they releasing a live album with never-before heard live tracks, but Peter Case and Paul Collins are taking the show on the road.
The Bloc Weekend has announced its initial festival lineup for 2012, the first year in which Bloc will be in its new location of London's Pleasure Gardens. They have some great names at the top of the list: Orbital, Flying Lotus ...
Mute has long been hom to classic electronic sounds and massive experimentation. As Mute grows more epic and global, Liberation Technologies can liberate Mute to continue to release experimental electronic sounds alongside the bigger acts that the label carries today.
Archers of Loaf are touring in support of their new album Vee Vee in April and May, with a select set of shows in the U.S. and a date at the Primavera Sound Festival, as well as a stop at the Noise Pop Music Festival. Vee Vee is due for release on Feb. 21, and you can check out a stream of the song "Harnessed In Slums." | STREAM
Maps & Atlases are mapping out a new album with Beware and Be Grateful, due for release on Apr. 17 via Barsuk Records. It's the follow up to their Perch Patchwork release in 2010 and the video preview above suggests something deep and heavy.
The term “Foo Fighter” was originally used to describe any unidentified flying objects, and unless you were a diehard Foo Fighters fan, you might not have noticed the lineup changes that made them hard to truly identify too. Before Back and Forth, I didn’t realize how much personnel this group went through ... but the story goes deeper, and this is a pretty well done piece.
Björk will perform the song "Cosmogony" from her album Biophilia tonight on The Colbert Report. We'll feature the video on the site as it becomes available. Bjork will also speak with Stephen Colbert in an interview, much as Radiohead did a while back. Bjork will be talking Biophilia apps as they’re used on Android and iPad / iPhone, the Biophilia tour and whatever craziness Stephen Colbert throws at her.
Last year post-rock, wall of noise band Mogwai had trouble coming from Scotland to the U.S. to tour the states due to visa issues ... and they were forced to cancel not one but two tours. Now they're back, visas in tow, and ready to play some shows.
Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival expanded its lineup today with Girls, Atlas Sound, Richard Hawley, Beirut, Black Lips, Sharon Van Etten ... | FESTIVAL GUIDE
DJ and producer David Guetta is the latest addition to the 2012 Benicassim Festival lineup, one that's growing by the week at this point after adding New Order, The Horrors, Crystal Castles (among others) last week. | FESTIVAL GUIDE
If you're Jack White, where do you go after doing the White Stripes, Racontuers, Dead Weather plus all of the the other things he's involved in with (and without) Third Man Records? The solo album of course! Preview a track now. | STREAM
The new Chemical Brothers movie Don't Think builds on the Further tour from last year, laying out the live Chemical Brothers spectacle in what looks like a colorful explosion of sound.
If you're using the Spotify iPhone app or the Spotify Android app, you might be one of these people, as the most current Spotify paid subscribers count has reached 3 million people worldwide.
The music in the past has centered around two scenes, electronic music and jam bands. It's an combination of art, being socially conscious and music. And it's festival season is set to kick off today, as Electric Forest tickets will go on sale, with both general admission tickets and VIP tickets.
The ultimate snow utopia ... Vail Valley in Colorado, is playing host to the second annual Snowball Festival. It's a U.S.-based mirror image of the Snowbombing Festival in Europe. You can ski during the day and see great music at night. Find out more.
An Apple TV update on rumors and news for the Apple TV set a.k.a. iTV, with Siri features and a touch screen remote from an iPad or iPhone for changing channels and navigation on your TV, Apple TV apps using iCloud and iTunes. Apple TV vs Google TV is sooo on, plus the formation of MySpace TV will all make 2012 a fun year.
The new Spiritualized album Sweet Heart Sweet Light is being pushed out a little bit, so that Jason Pierce can put the final mixing moves on the album? Finesse or fooling around? Pierce seems to stand firmly on one side of that take.
Roxy Music is going meta on top of meta with Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the phenomenon we like to call Roxy Music. Eight CDs, 4 DVDs and whole lotta Roxy Music lovin' goin' on.
Battles dropped their first big album as a power trio last year with Gloss Drop, and now they're starting release remixes from the album, starting with the tracks "Wall Street" remixed by Gui Boratto and "Sweetie and Shag" remixed by The Field. Find out more and listen to both of the remixes.
It's an international festival on the beach, and they just landed Crystal Castles and New Order (among others) to go with headlining act The Stone Roses. Find out more.
The B-52's have been both leaders and a presence on the New Wave/Modern Rock scene since 1976. Though the years have passed, this band has not lost their initial spark and their music is still as exciting and unique as ever.
You might not have known that there was a Spotify lawsuit going on ... one that would have killed Spotify in the U.S. The good news: it's been settled, and Spotify will live on ...
Sampling can either be high art like an aural collage (think Bomb Squad or Prince Paul or Beck) or a badly sung karaoke new version of an old song (think Puff Daddy, Diddy, Puffy or Sean Combs).
The new material reflects the way of life M. Ward has pursued over the past few years between juggling projects like She and Him, The Monsters of Folk ... and of course M. Ward. As a result, he had to rethink what he could bring with him on the road in a scaled down mode vs. everything else he had going.
Good news ... the Sasquatch! Music Festival is due to announce its lineup in early February, with an announcement party. Find out who leads the rumor list for Sasquatch! headliners and how to get tickets.
The Pirate Bay wants you to know that it's not down with the SOPA and PIPA bills that freaked the Internet out last week ... but they have no fear of it taking the Pirate Bay down.
Check out the reinvention of De La Soul as First Serve ... It's a great reimagining of some of the influences of De La Soul in a modern vibe. It's only 2/3 of De La Soul -- Dave Jolicoeur and Kelvin Mercer, better known as Plug 1 and Plug 2, but it's hard not to think of De La Soul when listening to this.
Google Music has launched a new music feature called Google Magnified Artists for independent artists in the Android Music Store and Artist Hub that gives them an opportunity to gain visibility on Youtube Music and Google+, with the intent of raising them out of the clutter of online noise of the Internet. Since it's hard to get noticed for indie bands, Google Magnified hopes to change that."
A new collaborative album is coming from Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and it includes the track "Popcorn Superhet Receiver" and a live performance. Find out more.
The electronic music / IDM musician travelled far and wide to record the sounds on Iradelphic, and you can hear the first song to be released from the album, “Com Touch.”
Online storage / cyberlocker web site Megaupload has been hit with a lawsuit for operating an international criminal enterprise with Megaupload, profiting from copyright infringement and piracy; it comes at a time when copyright is a hot issue with the SOPA and PIPA bills moving through Congress and exploding in online protests. But that's not all ...
Anybody going to Bloc Weekend should be super-psyched about this ... because Bloc organizers are working with none other than the same people who put on the Shangri-La area of the Glastonbury Festival.
Another British music festival folds for the year of 2012 due to the combination of fighting the Olympics and lack of available artists during that time: The Big Chill festival will take the year of 2012 off.
Here's the response by Digital Music News publisher and founder Paul Resnikoff yesterday to being subpoenaed by Grooveshark in the Grooveshark VS Universal Music Group court case.
Orbital return with a new album titled Wonky in April, featuring work with Zola Jesus, Lady Leshurr and the infamous Flood as producer. Given the date, let's hope it's not a joke. Check out the new Orbital video for the song "Never" after the jump. | VIDEO
Just when you thought The Pirate Bay was down as a place for you to find new music, comes an alternative -- and it's being launched by the Pirate Bay itself. Called The Promo Bay, it gives independent musicians, film makers, authors and artists the ability to promote themselves.
The South by Southwest Music Festival has announced the SXSW schedule for the 2012 music lineup, allowing you to choose the bands you want to see. Also included are the schedules for SXSW Film Festival and SXSW Interactive.
The festival wristband ... the long-held symbol of a day or weekend in the sun listening to music. Good times. But the music festival wristband of the past was simple compared to the electronic, RFID (radio frequency ID) wristbands we see today. It might be in use at next year's Glastonbury Festival, according to festival organizer Michael Eavis.
Aaron Freeman might be better known to you as Gene Ween, from the experimentalist band Ween. He's releasing a solo album titled Marvelous Clouds, an ode to poet and songwriter Rod McKuen who came out of the San Francisco Beat scene.
Grooveshark joins the list of HTML5 apps for streaming music sites, skipping the Apple App store and Android Market to launch a Grooveshark mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android. They’re calling it the Grooveshark Sooper Secret Beta.
Joel Boychuk is one half of the musical act Tractile, but on Feb. 22 he'll release his own album under the moniker Hobo. The album is titled Iron Triangle, and features 12 new tracks that It will be released by Minus (or M-nus), a label who plays home to both Ritchie Hawtin and his Plastikman alter ego.
In the run up to last year's big Facebook Music launch, which included streaming music sites like Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody; there was talk about how all of these would tie into a massive Facebook Music player that would allow a simultaneous listening experience to happen. For whatever reasons unkown to the masses, the Facebook Music player was scrapped before the f8 conference and never mentioned again. Until now.
Good news for The Decemberists nation: the live shows you have been going to can be relived with a new Decemberists live album titled We All Raise Our Voices to the Air. It covers a range of shows from last year on the North American tour.
MySpace dropped one of the first official offerings this week at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas: They were getting itno the connected TV game with MySpace TV.
The all of the musical map man Sebastien Tellier will release Release My God Is Blue, this Spring, a new album of work from the french musician known for downtempo electronic music as much as he is for songwriting skills.
Although the first streaming music site mentioned by people these days might be Spotify, Rhapsody actually has the most users in the U.S. out of the big four streaming music sites of Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody.
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks released their album Mirror Traffic last year, and will continue to play shows for it in 2012, with a short U.S. tour in February (safely confined to warmer southern region of the country, nice).
Shazam has launched a new app called the Shazam Player, with the ability to give you song lyrics in real time with a song. It also works with Facebook and Twitter so you can be social about what you're singing along to. Look for the iPad as the hot new Karaoke app by using the Shazam Player app!
Ultra Music Festival tickets are now completely sold out for the 2012, and that means everything ... VIP tickets, early bird tickets, general admission tickets ... if you don’t have them at this point, you’re not going unless you buy them resale or unless the serendipitously “find” more tickets to put on sale between now and the festival.
The Noise Pop Music Festival was expanded today with some great new shows: The Flaming Lips will perform The Soft Bulletin in full and Bob Mould will play the classic from his band Sugar with Copper Blue, also in full. Other acts added to the lineup are...
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks released their album Mirror Traffic last year, and will continue to play shows for it in 2012, with a short U.S. tour in February (safely confined to warmer southern region of the country, nice).
With the release of their album El Camino in December, The Black Keys are extending the Black Keys tour into late spring with the arrival of new Black Keys tour dates. The shows are mostly in the south and along the west coast in the U.S., and some Canadian dates as well.
Brooklyn-based band White Rabbits will release their new album Milk Famous on Mar.6 via TBD Records. It's the follow-up to It's Frightening, which was relased in 2009, and there's a new single available for download as an MP3: "Heavy Metal." Tour dates also, find out more.
32 weeks and counting until the 2012 Reading Festival and the 2012 Leeds Festival, and tickets will go back on sale in the Spring, with a new addition this year -- you’ll have to put a deposit down on the tickets.
Slacker Radio has launched three new custom radio stations, something they've been championing over the past year. This time it's RJD2, The Parlotones and Blue October.
The new La Sera sound is more rough around the edges, less dream pop and echoey than the first album La Sera. This is due in part to songwriting and the the fact that Sees the Light was recorded by Rob Barbato (Darker My Love, the Fall). | MP3
The 2012 Coachella lineup is usually released in January, ending the massive run of rumors over Coachella 2012 headliners and reunions, and usually marking the beginning of the sale of Coachella tickets. Will Radiohead be at Coachella or is this just another Coachella rumor?
Don’t just listen to the radio, you miss too much. Christopher Levine, author of "Eclectiblogs-Weekly Meanderings for Music Head Consumption" talks about wandering off the beaten path.
There’s a new Burial release in the pipeline, in the form of a new Burial EP titled Kindred. The track "Ashtray Wasp" was played on the Hyperdub show on Rinse, check it out. | MP3
Grimes goes international in February and March, depending on what part of the world you live in. Find out more and here music from the upcoming album. | STREAM
New Sub Pop artist Spoek Mathambo is getting ready to drop his first album for the label with Father Creeper on Mar. 13. It's South African street meets American R & B with some electronic music stylings and a nod to hip hop, dubstep, and anything else that Spoek Mathambo is finding interesting at a given moment. | STREAM
Is it the iPad 3!? The new Apple TV update!? Probably not ... the daily concensus on the Apple Media Event that's been scheduled is some sort of publishing or advertising deal ... but who knows. Find out more.
It's a 36 hour party spread across four stages with almost 100 artists performing in the location of Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit. Tickets went back on sale on Dec. 30 for regular and VIP tickets. | FESTIVAL GUIDE
Let's look at new Apple iPad 3 features and specs that went down over the holiday break: a new iPad 3 in two sizes, extended iPad 3 battery life, face recognition to go with Siri voice recognition ... also iTunes Match & iCloud inclusion with an A6 processor chip. An iPad 3 release date is possible in early 2012, but is still rumor and speculation.
MySpace kicks off its remake with a new music player that includes MySpace Radio; a modern look and the features you'll find on Spotify, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody.
The Ultra Music Festival in Miami, known more for its electronic music indulgenses like Bassnectar and Deadmau5, could be leaning on old-schoool electronic music pioneers New Order for the 2012 Ultra Music Festival. | FESTIVAL GUIDE
The fuzzy, post-punk band from Brooklyn cites comparisons to The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Velvet Underground, while also appealing to lighter, sweeter sounds: the marriage of the dark side and the light side.
Drawing comparisons from The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3 to delta blues and African rhythms, Royal Baths have all of the energy of a punk show with all of the substance of the blues.
The 2011 Grammys are almost upon us ... here's a run down of the 5 Grammy nominees in the Best Long Form Music Video: Foo Fighters, The Kings of Leon, A Tribe Called Quest, TV On the Radio and Beyoncé.
Trent Reznor was the guest on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross today, and Trent actually was comical in his ability to laugh at himself in a self-depricating way. They covered his new The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack with Atticus Ross, Gene Simmons, growing up in (and escaping) Cleveland and a lot of Nine Inch Nails history. | STREAM
Apple has been in talks with media peeps about what the future of Apple TV will look like: streaming movies, TV shows and music, through your TV, iPad or even iPhone, as well as your computer.
Fresh ideas this morning about a possible new but smaller iPad 3, to live alongside smaller tablet computers. Other iPad features include Siri, iTunes Match and more.
With this year's Voodoo Experience barely behind us comes the word of the next Voodoo Experience, and it will be the 14th anniversary of the festival. Check out the 14 days of Voodoo, starting today!
How did the indie world get so much like the Republican party trying to choose a candidate? It's Michelle Bachman! No, I mean Rick Perry! Wait, [he was so seven seconds ago]! Newt, Newt, he's our man! Bon Iver is the new black! We hate Lana Del Ray because everybody else does! Now we love Lana Del Ray because everybody else does! Who's next? Predict the next big phenomenon to blow up!
If you laughed at the thought of an in-car Pandora Radio, think again: Pandora Radio data shows that its use is up 13 to 25 percent in the top 10 cities, including New York.
The End of the Road Festival announced an intial lineup that includes Grizzly Bear, Tindersticks, Beach House, The Antlers and Robyn Hitchcock. Find out more and see a complete lineup.
In what's already shaping up to be one of the really good indie-pop tours of the new year, the Cults tour for 2012 has a long and growing list of shows. Check them out in Australia at the Laneway Festival; or March 11 in Houston, TX with of Montreal.
The Apple TV 3 update for 2012 should see Apple dominate both the connected TV set top box and the Apple TV set (iTV) that grows more true everyday. The connected TV helped by the new iPad 3, Siri and Apple TV can continue to redefine smart TV and keep the Apple TV vs Google TV battle boiling all year long. A new research report from Strategy Analytics backs this up.
The Twilight Sad have announced a U.S. tour for 2012 in support of the upcoming album No One Will Ever Know, and it includes a stop at the SXSW Music conference.
Radiohead will release two new tracks that didn’t make it to the album King of Limbs, the songs are "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase" on Dec. 19, and both songs are available fore streaming right now.
There's a new uTorrent free download available, an update from uTorrent 3.0 to the newly arrived uTorrent 3.1 version; it's available for iPhone, iPad and Android users and includes a premium version called uTorrent Plus.
The Stone Roses have officially signed recording deals to release a new album worldwide, just as plans for the Stone Roses reunion tour are taking shape.
Spotify has launched a new feature called Spotify Radio, a Pandora-like service that lets Spotify users create Pandora Radio-esque stations. The Spotify Radio feature was announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.
Talk about changing the nature of copyright infringement and copyright law ... the Songwriters Association of Canada is taking a progressive approach to BitTorrent downloads and file sharing web sites by accepting that they exist and trying to bring them into a system of licensing.
British post-punks Wire are releasing a live show recording titled Black Session, Paris, which captures the band's patented tight and energetic live show from a show earlier this year.
Post-rock band The Dirty Three are set to return again with a new album titled Toward the Low Sun on Drag City Records. It will be available on vinyl, CD and download.
The Isle of Wight Festival has just named Pearl Jam as its Saturday Night headlining act, adding to the previously named Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band as the Sunday headliner. | FESTIVAL GUIDE
The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG, nice “crazy” acronym -- “you, we’re loco, G!”) made the announcement today, citing Underworld's past collaboration with British filmmaker/producer Danny Boyle.
This incarnation of the Noise Pop Music Festival will make 20 years. That’s long time for any festival, and the Noise Pop Music Festival hits the big two - oh this Spring. Congratulations, next year we can all buy you a drink!
It's the biggest SXSW lineup announcement, and includes bands like The Big Pink, The Big Sleep, Blitzen Trapper, Metric, Prince Rama and The War On Drugs, to name a few. Find out more and see a complete lineup.
At this point, one has to wonder why there is no Spotify iPad app given the popularity of both? iPad is the everywhere mobile device, and Spotify is on the iPhone, but not the iPad (not as a real iPad app, anyway) ... but a Spotify iPad app is coming, says Chris Maples.
Mixing up indie rock with more adventurous folk and rock stylings, Plants and Animals will release a new album titled The End of That next year. Find out more and preview a new track from the album. | STREAM
