By Marvin Marks on Jan 18, 2010 in Music News | 0 Comments
Among those releasing new albums tomorrow are Spoon, Editors, & Eels. Spoon’s 7th album Transference is currently #5 on Amazon’s best selling music list. In This Light and On This Evening was originally released by the Editors in October of ’09 in the UK (their homeland) but it’s getting it’s official US debut (on CD [...]
By Mozart Breath on Jan 15, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
Life is about change, my friends. Jeff Retard was a strong boy. It is tough to understand what Gerard Cosloy can do to a man. If Jim Morrison and Nick Drake had a child, it would have looked a hell of a lot like the late Mr. Reatard. But life is about change, my friends. [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 15, 2010 in Music News | 1 Comment
A new Jimi Hendrix album including previously unreleased recordings made from February to May 1969 is due out on March 9, 2010: Valleys Of Neptune. The 12 song track listing includes some songs that just about every Hendrix fan will already be familiar with (including “Stone Free,” “Fire,” & “Red House”) but it also includes [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 14, 2010 in Album Reviews | 0 Comments
I’ve only recently come across Luna by The Aliens but it’s quickly fighting it’s way towards the top of my “favorite albums released in 2008″ list (although it didn’t come out in the US until 2009, it was originally released on October 29, 2008.) In general I’ve come to prefer shorter albums and I’ve been [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Jan 13, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
I just came across a couple of OK Go’s music videos that I thought were so groovy I had to share them here. It’s quite rare for me to be excited by any music video but these are something different from the norm. The first is for “WTF?” and features some rather insane special effects [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 13, 2010 in Music News | 2 Comments
Joanna Newsom’s third studio album (after 2004′s Milk Eyed Mender and 2006′s Ys) will be released on February 23. The title is Have One On Me. Newsom begins a world tour on January 16 (that’s Saturday) beginning in Australia. She then makes her way to New Zealand & Japan. On March 12 she begins her [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 11, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
Our YourDailyJingle.com jingle is up today: You can get your own jingle done by Brian King at “Your Daily Jingle” and the sooner you buy your jingle, the less it costs (for example I paid $11 for this jingle today, but if I bought it for tomorrow it would have been $12.) Go to the [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 11, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
Some of the bands listed here released their debut album in 2009 so it’s no surprise that I’ve only recently “discovered” their music. On the other hand, some of them have been around for good long while and I’ve only recently gave them a good listen. What’s the point of this list? The idea is [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 10, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
After finding (and posting here) the top ten selling vinyl albums of 2008 last year I wanted to do the same thing this year when the numbers became available and they have and so I am. These numbers come from soundscan which has been keeping track of album sales since 1991. The 2.5 million new [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jan 10, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
Soundscan is out with their final sales numbers for 2009 and the three biggest sellers of the year were Michael Jackson with 8.3 million albums sold, Taylor Swift with 4.6 million albums sold, and The Beatles with 3.3 million albums sold. That a pop singer known mostly for his work in the 1980s and a [...]