Billboard has unveiled the track lists for the upcoming Bob Dylan retrospectives, which are set for an Oct. 2 release in the states. Also in the cue is the documentary, The Other Side of the Mirror, which collects rare and unseen footage from Dylan’s popular and polarizing performances at the Newport Folk Festivals from 1963-65. […]
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A Deluge of Dylan
August 29th, 2007
R.E.M. to release first official concert CD/DVD set
August 29th, 2007
After a career that’s spanned more than 25 years, R.E.M. is releasing its first official live CD/DVD. Billboard reports the cleverly titled R.E.M. Live will see cellophane on October 16 and includes 22 tracks taken from a 2005 performance in Dublin, Ireland. That’s the good news.
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Band of Horses Rides Again
August 29th, 2007
So it ain’t no Crying Game-like secret that Ben Bridwell and his (mostly) faithful sidekicks have got a new release, Cease to Begin, coming out on Sub Pop October 9th. By now you probably even know the track listing by heart (or at least as well as The Dirty Projectors know Damaged), but here it […]
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Sigur Rós ‘Heima’ film trailer
August 29th, 2007
Sigur Ros let the cameras roll during a two-week tour of Iceland last summer. It’s not your typical concert DVD, however: “Sigur Rós decided they would push the boat (bus and plane) out for their debut venture into live film, hauling 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland to […]
The Dirty Projectors remake Black Flag’s Damaged…from “memory”
August 28th, 2007
Covering someone else’s entire record is a bad idea ten times out of ten. But reworking a classic like Black Flag’s Damaged from “memory and intuition” is downright insane. Yet Brooklyn experimental pop deconstructionists The Dirty Projectors have done just that. The result is called Rise Above, and it’s more like a film loosely based […]
The Killers stink up Control soundtrack
August 28th, 2007
So, the fact that the soundtrack to Anton Corbijn’s forthcoming Ian Curtis biopic, Control, contains a fair share of both Joy Division and New Order is to be expected. What’s not expected or even remotely welcome is The Killers’ version of Joy Division’s “Shadowplay.” No one wants to hear that nonsense, for God’s sake. Just […]
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My Bloody Valentine for Coachella next year?
August 27th, 2007
I’d eat some serious crow, but I’d also totally fucking go if this were to happen. According to the Daily Swarm, legendary shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine is in negotiations to headline next year’s Coachella festival. Not only that but a possible tour is also on the table. This is just surreal. Kevin Shields is the biggest effing […]