Last year I made a real effort to listen to a lot of new music (which is why I was able to come up with this top 10 albums of 2010 list.) This year I haven’t made that effort. But a lot of other people have. So here’s a best of of best of 2011 [...]

Prog-1, Metal-0: Opeth – Heritage If you like prog, this is an album to truly get excited about. If you like Opeth, be forewarned: This has NO death metal riffs or death metal growling. As Mikael Akerfeldt said recently, “It feels, without sounding pretentious,like we’ve been working our way up to this point since our first [...]

REM has announced that they are breaking up the band. They formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 with singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. That original line-up remained for 17 years until Bill Berry left the group in 1997. Stipe, Buck, and Mills remained with the band until the end which officially came today. [...]

Icelandic composer, Johann Johannsson (b.1969) is a modern composer with his hand in a few different sorts of ideas. He has been involved in performances, exhibitions, books, radio shows, films etc.,all in an effort to encourage and promote experimentation and cross media/genre pollination. His albums of original music are absolutely beautiful in the most meaningful [...]

Young Galaxy are a band from Canada based in Montreal. An ever changing line-up is centered around couple, Stephen Ramsay, his wife Catherine McCandless and long time associate Stephen Kamp. They have been labeled as shoegaze/dream pop. I’m not quite sure. They’re just Canadian! If you’ve been trawling around on line looking for something new [...]

Check out this HD video of Radiohead playing all eight songs (but not in order) from The King of Limbs live From the Basement: Bonus songs: “The Daily Mail” and “Staircase.”

“Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” I haven’t been much of a Coldplay fan in the past and I don’t think this song is going to change things for me. I can hear why people like them, but it just seems a bit too soft on the corners for me. But recently I’ve been thinking about [...]

You can hear Bon Iver’s new album (Bon Iver, Bon Iver) in its entirety at NPR’s First Listen. The album is being officially released on June 21st (you can pre-order it on Amazon here.) This is just the second studio album from Bon Iver (the first being 2008′s For Emma, Forever Ago.) In addition; a [...]

This year Lollapalooza will be August 5th through August 7th at Grant Park in Chicago. The line-up includes: Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket, Ween, Bright Eyes, Arctic Monkeys, The Cars, Cee Lo, Beirut, Ratatat, Crystal Castles, Sleigh Bells, and Explosions in the Sky. As of right now 3 day passes can be [...]

The Wish You Were Here Immersion Box Set will released on November 8th but you can pre-order it now on Amazon (if the price drops between now and the release date, you will get the new lower price.) The Discovery Box Set (Pink Floyd’s entire studio album catalog remastered) and The Dark Side of the [...]