Archive for February, 2008
Maxim Magazine Slams CD - Without Listening To It
The Black Crowes are furious with Maxim, a men’s magazine that relies mostly on scantily clad women to attract its audience. They also strive to be “hip” and “mainstream” like most other publications. Unfortunately, they just went from being hip to being just plain ignorant. In the March 2008 issue, the magazine published a disparaging [...]
New Music 2/23/08
Atlas Sound - Cold As Ice
Goldfrapp - Happiness
Headlights - Market Girl
Kula Shaker - Second Sight
Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost
Supergrass - Ghost Of A Friend
The Helio Sequence - Can’t Say No
The National Bank - Styrofoam
The National Bank
One of my latest favorite finds is Norwegian artist “The National Bank.” The have been enormously popular in Norway for about four years now - in fact, because the band members all came from the ashes of earlier groups who all had strong national prominence, The National Bank is considered a super-group in their homeland [...]
DVD Jon Strikes Again
Jon Lech Johansen reached international fame and notoriety as a 16 year old Norwegian who reverse engineered the copy protection on DVD’s, allowing consumers to make copies of products they owned for personal use - of course, it also allowed everyone who used the program code, called DeCSS - to copy any DVD, whether they [...]
U2 Begin Work On New CD
Irish rockers U2 have hit the studio in Dublin to continue work on their next studio album with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. “We’re going to try and break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece,” Lanois told Billboard.com. “The sleeves are rolled up. Bono is all charged up with a lyrical angle.”
U2, [...]
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