I wasn’t sure what to expect from Radiohead drummer Phil Selway’s debut solo album, Familial out on August 31st, but I just listened to four tracks from the album and I think they are really nice. It has a very quiet contemplative singer-songwriter type vibe to it but with some hints of Radiohead in the […]

The Beatles were actively recording songs from 1962 through 1969. To be precise; they did record some demos prior to 1962, most of them can be heard on The Beatles Anthology 1, and they finished a single song in 1970, “I Me Mine” on 1/3/70, but obviously choosing the five best songs from the demos […]

Today it was announced that remastered versions of The Beatles 1973 “best of” compilations (known as “The Red Album” & “The Blue Album“) are set to be released on October 18th (in most of the world, and the 19th in the US & Canada.)

While this was not The Beatles news I was hoping to […]

Arcade Fire’s third album, The Suburbs, has debuted at #1 in both the US and UK. I think this means that “indie rock” is now officially mainstream, or something like that.

I’m actually not much of a fan of Arcade Fire. I find their approach to be a bit over-dramatic. They remind me of my […]

From time to time I like to check out the Billboard album charts to see what kind of music people are buying in mass quantities these days. This is one of those times.
I’m mostly pretty detached from the “pop” world (most of my favorite new music doesn’t sell huge quantities) so this is my effort […]

I thought this YouTube video on the music used in the movie Inception (which is brilliant, go see it if you haven’t yet) was cool enough to share it here so I’m going to embed it even though I usually have a no YouTube video policy (since they so often end up getting deleted.)

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Check out M.I.A.’s insane performance of “Born Free” on Letterman last night complete with lots of M.I.A. doppelgangers. This is just too noisy for many listeners but I think it straddles the border of unlistenable dissonance on the right side. The insistent drums and bass along with the sloppy energy of the vocals makes it […]

Ringo Starr turns 70 today. He was born as Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940. Ringo was the oldest Beatle. John Lennon would be turning 70 on October 9 of this year and Paul McCartney just turned 68 (June 18th.) George Harrison was the youngest Beatle as he would have turned 67 this year (on […]

It’s been nearly two months, but I’m finally picking up with the next entry in my series on each of the original Beatles songs. “Hold Me Tight” is #9 in the series. “Misery” was #8.
This song was one of the band’s earliest originals as it had been a part of their live act from […]

According to this story on Billboard, Michael Jackson has sold over 30 million copies of his albums around the world since his death one year ago (June 25, 2009.)
In the US alone, MJ has sold over 9 million copies of his albums in the past year. On top of that he has sold over 12 […]