By Marvin Marks on Apr 28, 2010 in Music News | 0 Comments
Trent Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig have started a new group called How To Destroy Angels. Apparently there will be a debut EP by How To Destroy Angels coming out this summer. Trent Reznor’s main group, Nine Inch Nails, had their final live show on September 10th of last year (the last show of [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 21, 2010 in Music Trivia | 3 Comments
The new Billboard album charts are out today and I find the sales numbers for MGMT’s new album, Congratulations, interesting enough to pass along: 66,000 copies sold in the first week which is good enough to debut at the #2 spot (behind Justin Bieber at #1.) The Billboard story also mentioned that MGMT’s first album, [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 20, 2010 in Features | 4 Comments
I’m a big fan of the Music Subreddit (and Reddit in general actually) as I found a lot of my favorite albums of 2009 through recommendations there. So I’ve been watching this thread on the best albums of 2010 so far with great interest in order to get ideas for new albums to buy. I [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 10, 2010 in Music News | 1 Comment
I’m looking over some of the upcoming album releases scheduled to be released through May and I decided I’d like to share those that I’m interested in buying (in hopes that you may be interested as well, eh?) Click on the album name to pre-order it on Amazon. These are new albums by bands who [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 6, 2010 in Music News | 4 Comments
The line-up for the Lollapalooza music festival (at Grant Park in Chicago on the weekend of August 6th-8th) has been released and it includes the following bands/artists: Lady Gaga Green Day Soundgarden MGMT Arcade Fire Phoenix The Strokes Grizzly Bear Dirty Projectors Fuck Buttons The Walkmen Gogol Bordello Devo Cypress Hill Matt & Kim Blues [...]