I almost missed it as the day is nearly over (at least here on the East coast) but today is Michael Jackson’s 50th birthday. He was born on July 18, 1958. Some interesting perspective; he’s more than 3 years older than Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama.
I won’t go through the whole Michael Jackson biography […]

Beck’s latest studio album, Modern Guilt, is due for release next Monday in the UK and next Tuesday in the US (July 8th, which also happens to be Beck’s 38th birthday.)
The album was produced by Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton of “Grey Album” and Gnarls Barkley fame.
It’s Beck’s 3rd new album in the past 4 […]

Deemed the last major remnant of the ill-fated electroclash genre (which they probably never really belonged to in the first place), Ladytron have long been held to inflated expectations to evolve. Their previous album, Witching Hour, was largely hailed as a graceful shift towards a more refined, nuanced, and even (gasp!) organic sound. That album’s […]

John Cage performing “Water Walk” on the television program Someone’s Got A Secret:

“Toe Jam” By The BPA (featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal)

Weezer’s Red Album is now available for sale at Amazon.com
You can play clips of the songs from the album right here at MusicByDay.com courtesy of this fancy Amazon.com MP3 clip player thingy. You can also buy MP3s of the songs straight from Amazon:
Amazon.com Widgets
The album cover:

Maybe Mozart Breath will give us a review […]

Click here to stream the new Sigur Ros album. It’s their 5th album to date.
As mentioned earlier, you can now order the album online at their website, SigurRos.com
Click here to see the video for “Gobbledigook.” YouTube banned the video due to the nudity. But hopefully you’ll find that as ridiculous as I do as the […]

This may be the most unusual Radiohead cover I have heard yet. The song is “Nude” from their 2007 album In Rainbows and it is “performed” by old obsolete equipment such as an old dot matrix printer on drums and a hard drive array on vocals.

The new Sigur Ros album titled Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust is now available for pre-order at SigurRos.com
The album, which is their 5th to date, is available in the following versions:
CD Album + Album Download (*price £14.00)
Receive the album download + bonus videos a week early on 16th June
CD will arrive the […]

Weezer’s video for their new single “Pork & Beans” features many references to a lot of the biggest memes in YouTube history. Watching it is sort of like a game of “spot that meme.”
Chris Crocker & Tay Zonday are among the “YouTube stars” that appear in the video.
Check it out: