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 [...]

I’ve come across this information on 2008 album sale totals and I found it interesting enough to want to pass it along: About 115,000 new albums were released in 2008. 110 of those sold over 250,000 copies. About 1,500 of them sold over 10,000 copies. And about 6,000 of them sold over 1,000 copies. That [...]

This is a complete Radiohead concert from October 5, 2008 in Japan: CLICK HERE for the YouTube page for this video where you can watch it big screen. It also has instructions on how you can download the concert and put it on DVD. Setlist: 15 Step Just There There All I Need Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [...]

I won’t do a “top 10″ list as I’m not as connected with listening to every album that comes out like most of the folks who make those types of lists are. Instead my list is just ten albums I’ve heard from 2008 that I think are worth a listen. The albums are in alphabetical [...]

Last.FM is one of my favorite websites. It tracks the listening habits of millions of music obsessed people all over the world (you can have your listening habits tracked by becoming a member – it’s free.) They’ve just put out their list of the 10 best albums of 2008 which is based on which albums [...]

*** The category ain’t quite right. That’s all I can say, as you know, they are watching. What I mean to say is, it’s not even close really. Well maybe it can be kind of close.*** One half of The Fireman is a producer known as Youth (who has worked with bands such as The [...]

Guns N Roses’ (very) long awaited new studio album, Chinese Democracy, has finally been released (today.) It can be streamed online at their MySpace page and it can be purchased (exclusively) at Best Buy. It’s the band’s first studio album of original songs since 1991′s Use Your Illusions I & II. Work on the album [...]

Radiohead ran a contest to have videos made for songs from In Rainbows and this video for “Weird Fishes” by Tobias Stretch was among the winners and I must say it’s a pretty awesomely weird video. Suitable, indeed, for a song called “Weird Fishes.” Watch It: In Rainbows On EBAY: Radiohead Thom Yorke kid A [...]

According to many fans, Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic, sounds better on Guitar Hero 3 than it does on the official CD version. Why? Because of the “loudness war.” Basically the music has been “mastered” in a way in which the only goal is to make the music as loud as possible without any concern [...]

Last night’s vile performance by Sarah Palin (George W. Bush in a skirt) made me think of this 2006 song by Neil Young, “Let’s Impeach The President.” Check it out: