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Afro-Punk Festival Confirms Schedule
The fourth annual Afro-Punk festival will take place in Brooklyn from July 5 through the 13, and is co-sponsored by BAMcinematek and Toyota. Billed as “the definitive destination for the global Afro-Punks yearning to experience true AP culture,” the festival drew 30,000 music lovers in 2007, and expands this year to include 40 bands and [...]
The Verve Name New Album, Preview First Single
The Verve have finally set a name for their long-awaited comeback album — it is to be called Forth, and will be released on August 18th in the UK, and a day later in North America on the band’s On Our Own imprint. The lead single, “Love is Noise,” has been garnering high-profile praise and attention, [...]
The Fratellis at Webster Hall, NYC, 6.13.08
The Fratellis came on like Scottish bats out of hell with the Les Paul guitar and power drums fury of new hit “My Friend John” rousing the crowd to near insanity. Though a few songs in, frontman Jon Fratelli apologizes for his supposed fatigue, saying he “felt like shite for the first five songs,” I [...]
New Oasis Album Due in October
On October 7, Oasis returns with its seventh full-length release, Dig Out Your Soul, the follow-up to 2005’s Don’t Believe The Truth. Recorded at (shockingly enough) Abbey Road with producer Dave Sardy, Dig Out marks a turning point for the band’s approach to the studio, as head songwriter Noel Gallagher describes: “I wanted to write [...]
Now Hear This: Sarandon: No Cardigans Please, Twee is Simply Awful
The UK’s Sarandon like to call themselves a pop band with a short attention span. The name of their latest album, Kill Twee Pop, (released in the U.S. on Slumberland Records), seems to say it all: this is no cutsie neo-folk act, but rather, a spastic, twitching garage punk act that delights both in mashing [...]
Kings of Leon to Release New LP in September
On September 23rd, the Followill troupe out of Tennessee that we all know as Kings of Leon will release their fourth record, titled Only By The Night, on RCA. Sessions for the newie commenced in February of this year with co-producers Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios. Two new songs, “Crawl” and “Cold Desert” [...]
The Futureheads at Pianos, NYC, 6.18.08
The Futureheads played an “intimate” gig to a packed and sweaty Piano’s crowd the night after their one-off Bowery Ballroom show. Instead of what would have been a private and possibly emptier gig a few years ago, this was quite the must-see event: the room was overflowing and proved that no gigs are secret [...]
Loene Carmen - ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Tears’
If this is rock and roll, then the end times are nigh. Not that Loene Carmen can’t rock, of course. And what actually is rock these days? Carmen attempts to answer the question. And when artists attempt an answer, it either works wonderfully (see Primal Scream’s Screamadelica) or comes off as almost perverse (Primal Scream’s [...]
The Kiss-Off - ‘Brace’
Imagine Wire and Echo & The Bunnymen collaborating on an album circa 1981. That’s pretty much what can be found on the Kiss-Off’s EP Brace. Whereas many a New York act have fallen into the creative trap of churning out formulaic post-punk, The Kiss-Off have managed to fuse two disparate styles together in an intriguing [...]
The War On Drugs - ‘Wagonwheel Blues’
For a band with so many experimental pop influences, The War On Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues continues the recent thematic trend of Springsteen nostalgia, while also hinting at the intrepid Americana explorations of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Not in the case of this release, which manages to infuse the [...]
"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. 
