A new John Lennon box set (SIGNATURE BOX) is being released on October 4th (you can pre-order it on Amazon.com now.) This is what the 11 disc set includes: + All eight John Lennon solo albums remastered (hopefully done as well as the remastered Beatles albums in The Beatles Stereo Box Set.) + A disc [...]

I just downloaded Philip Selway’s Familial from AmazonMP3 for $7.99 and I’m really pleased with it thus far. It’s an exceedingly pleasant album. If you like quiet contemplative songs then you may dig this album quite a bit. What does it sound like? Think Nick Drake with some subtle Radiohead-esque sonic experimentation. The songs are [...]

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 [...]

Weezer has a new album, Hurley (yes, as in Hurley from LOST), coming out on September 14th. But despite having this new album coming out Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo recently said “We have this really exciting idea to do a tour where we spend two nights in each city, and the first night, we play [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Occasionally I like to peep into the world of mainstream music to check out what teenagers and secretaries are listening to lately. This could be seen as a waste of time (and I won’t argue too strongly that it’s not) but I do think it’s a decent idea to keep a bit of perspective on [...]

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said that a new Radiohead album is likely to be coming out sometime this year in a recent BBC interview (on Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape.) A choice tidbit from the interview: “I’m really excited… I feel like this is the best record we ever made. It really is genuinely exciting. It’s [...]