Last year I made a real effort to listen to a lot of new music (which is why I was able to come up with this top 10 albums of 2010 list.) This year I haven’t made that effort. But a lot of other people have. So here’s a best of of best of 2011 [...]

Radiohead has announced the first dates from their 2012 US tour: February 27th – Miami, FL – American Airlines Arena February 29th – Tampa, FL – St. Pete Times Forum March 1st – Atlanta, GA – Philips Arena March 3rd – Houston, TX – Toyota Center March 5th – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center [...]

Another Radiohead related rumor but, unlike yesterday’s which turned out to be not true, this one has a more reliable source (Flea.) The rumor is that Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke’s side project named after a song form his debut solo album, is working on an album that will come out “not real soon” according [...]

Update X4: Nope. Update X3: Er… maybe not. (? added back.) Update Update: There’s an Occupy Wall Street live stream. I’m not 100% positive the Radiohead show will be broadcast on it, but maybe.   Update: I’ve changed the question mark (?) to an exclamation point (!) because the rumor has been confirmed. Occupy Wall [...]

This week Jimmy Fallon’s late night show is having a Pink Floyd week to celebrate today’s release of the Pink Floyd Discovery Box Set and the Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set. Last night The Shins kicked off the week with a cover of “Breathe.” The schedule for the rest of the week: [...]

REM has announced that they are breaking up the band. They formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 with singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. That original line-up remained for 17 years until Bill Berry left the group in 1997. Stipe, Buck, and Mills remained with the band until the end which officially came today. [...]

If you’re a songwriter who is interested in some friendly competition with other songwriters & constructive feedback on your songwriting you should check out Song Fight! It works like this: Every week (or so) a new song title is given and you have to write an original song based around that title to be submitted [...]

I’ve talked a lot about The Beatles on this blog. I’m not going to go back and count them all but there’s probably over 100 posts about The Beatles on MusicByDay.com (many of them by me) and besides Amadeus’s “Beatles Suck” post I think they are almost all entirely positive. So it seems like time [...]

Add The Who’s Quadrophenia to the list of classic albums getting the box set treatment in 2011 (along with U2′s Achtung Baby, The Beach Boys’ Smile, and a pair from Pink Floyd; Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here.) Quadrophenia, released in 1973, was The Who’s sixth studio album. It’s an ambitious [...]

The original recordings from the Beach Boys legendary Smile sessions (’66-’67) are finally set to be officially released. There will be a double CD version, a double vinyl version, and a 9 disc box set! (Click Here to order the box set on Amazon) What’s In The Smile Sessions Box Set? + Five CDs. + [...]