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Camden Crawl, London UK, April 18 to 19th, 2008
On a mid-April weekend, London’s Camden Town hosted one of the city’s biggest music events for discovering new music. Red Stripe’s Camden Crawl was in effect for its seventh year, and with way too many bands to check out, fans were destined to be disappointed at not getting to catch every act they wanted [...]
Jarvis Cocker Live in the ‘Virtual’ Lower East Side Today
Today at 3PM EST, the inimitable Jarvis Cocker will appear at the virtual Bowery Ballroom for a Q&A session, along with OXFAM representatives. Ready, set, go here to get those questions about Jarv’s music, OXFAM, and music’s relationship with activism answered. And, as a bonus treat, a re-broadcast of his last NYC concert will be [...]
Elbow at Webster Hall, NYC April 26, 2008
Elbow takes the stage with “Starlings”, the bold and heraldic song opener from their new album, complete with dueling trumpets blaring.
Early into the set, singer/guitarist Guy Garvey responds to a fan’s remark, “You never usually hear that…Elbow rocks,” but it’s true, the band indeed knows how to put on an unforgettable show and get an [...]
Bloc Party Announce Small Summer Trek of North America
We haven’t seen the lads of Bloc Party around these parts in a good minute, and we suppose they knew that, having just announced a brief North American trek during the dog days of summer with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philly and New York, and performances at Lollapalooza and the V Fest in Toronto. [...]
Black Kids Announce Tour with Cut Copy
They were the talk of CMJ and just rocked Coachella this past weekend, and now Jacksonville, Florida’s Black Kids are hitting the US highways with Cut Copy this week until May 18. Afterwards, the Kids will launch a headlining tour in the UK in June, where they have been living for the past few months, [...]
Patti Smith and Kevin Shields to Release Spoken-Word Album
On July 11, 2008 via their PASK label, Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields will release a double-disc of their live readings and performances in 2005 and 2006 of Smith’s The Coral Sea, a “screaming requiem” of late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s terminal illness. Smith wrote the book in 1996 as a “posthumous homage” [...]
Langhorne Slim - ‘Langhorne Slim’
Langhorne Slim might hail from Philly, but his soul is tucked away somewhere in middle America, in the nation’s Breadbasket, under the same pedigreed umbrella of our finest acoustic and harmonica-wielding troubadours that need no mention by name. He readily admits that the tunes on the album are “love songs,” but the incandescent collection that [...]
Portishead - ‘Third’
Portishead - ‘Third’
Midway through the latest Portishead disc comes the thumping “We Carry On”, a song that has enough paranoid, punk Joy Division urgency and sinister drama to stop you in your tracks. Third has me feeling nostalgic for a Berlin I never knew, which must have something to do with its perfect use [...]
Elbow: Asleep No More
Many assumed Elbow had taken a few years to luxuriate in some deserved time off between now and their 2005 release, Leaders of the Free World. However, their latest album, The Seldom Seen Kid, was busy in the making, and needed that long stretch to be pondered and perfected, like a fine wine, before the band was ready to deem it finished and let it go.
The Duke Spirit: Raspberry Sunsets, Desert Moons and Sunken Treasures
You could almost sense the desert landscape emanating from the songs of The Duke Spirit’s latest album, Neptune, lending an added degree of mystery and soulfulness to its overall sound. Though the album has a strong nautical theme, if you listen closely, another uncharted, yet arid presence can also be felt in the details.
"Poetic" and overwrought, I like this though: "In the husk of a new construction " 
The show was sensational and everyone was in top form both on and off stage! Backstage gossip revealed that there ...
she came last year with rilo kiley and 2 years ago with the watson twins but i couldn't go to ...
Can someone tell me why she refuses to come to canada? Has she ever played a show here? I live ...
"if the world does come to an end i will be dancing through it…..@ a SYH show!!"
brilliant. I second that. 
