Spiritualized Launches Harmonies

Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by spencer in Art, Film, Music

My first experience with Spiritualized was shortly after they released “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space,” a beautifully plodding collection of altitude dementia and psychedelic landscapes. Great album to listen to while sitting around, stoned out of your brain while watching candles drip, by the way.
My second experience with Spiritualized happened when they opened for Radiohead at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Easily the most boring set I had witnessed up to that point. While the music was decent, it was less than [...]

Single Day Tickets Now Available for SF Outside Lands

Posted on 27. May, 2008 by alisse in Blog, Lifestyle, Music

San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival recently announced single-day tickets are now available. This is great news if you’re tight on cash and can’t afford the $225 plus fees for the 3-day pass. General admission 1-day tickets cost $85 and a percentage of this will go towards SF Parks and local chartiable organizations. Now the hardest part – picking a day. Radiohead will headline Friday August 22nd, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on Saturday and Jack Johnson on Sunday. Other artists recently added include: The Coup, Lupe Fiasco, [...]

Radiohead Tells Fans to Take the Bus

Posted on 02. May, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Environment, Music

After commissioning a study last year that found the majority of the carbon footprint of a major rock tour is created by showgoers traveling to and from the show (download the report here), Radiohead are asking fans coming out for their summer US tour to consider alternative means of transportation. Here’s the press release:
On the eve of their 2008 tour, which begins this Monday in West Palm Beach FL, Radiohead are appealing to fans to think about how they travel to and from shows.
Last year, the band commissioned carbon footprint [...]

Prince Covering Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella 2008

Posted on 27. Apr, 2008 by Bill in Music, Videos

Prince did an amazing version of the classic Radiohead song “Creep” at Coachella. The sound here is pretty good but I think the dude was either wasted or getting knocked around by like 50k people. Either way it’s dope.

Lars Ulrich suggests Metallica could follow Radiohead (Digitally Speaking)

Posted on 27. Apr, 2008 by Bill in Blog, Internet, Music, Paid

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich hints that the band could follow Radiohead for an eventual digital release. With only one more album to go on their Warner Brothers Records deal Metallica looks like they’ll be leaving the major label game.
From Cnet:
“We want to be as free (as) players as possible,” Ulrich told Rolling Stone during the band’s Northern California appearance for Record Store Day. “We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in 27 years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in [...]

Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” Could Mean Sink or Swim for EMI

Posted on 14. Apr, 2008 by spencer in Music

As mentioned last Friday, Coldplay has announced a June 17th release date for their fourth album, “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.” While writing that post, something clicked on in the back of my mind: this album has the potential to either keep Coldplay’s label EMI afloat for another year, or make necessary the eventual merger of EMI Music (including its subsidiaries like Capitol, Virgin, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Def Jux, Mute and Tooth & Nail) and Warner Music Group, who currently hold the 3rd and 4th [...]

Lollapalooza Lineup Leaked: Radiohead, NIN, RATM and More

Posted on 07. Apr, 2008 by Bill in Blog, Internet, Lifestyle, Music, Paid

The Lollapalooza lineup was dropped on the Internets today – might I be probably one of many to say “holy shit, that is one hell of a lineup”. Perry Farrell has done it again and with Rage Against the Machine playing that will only fuel more rumors about an actual Rage Against the Machine new album (hey, one can hope right?). Get your hotel reservations for Chicago early… Lineup is after the jump…

Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley
Bloc Party
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Lupe Fiasco
Flogging [...]

Exclusive Radiohead Performance on Pitchfork.tv

Posted on 06. Apr, 2008 by Bill in Blog, Internet, Music, Paid

Pitchfork.tv kicks off with a bang on Monday with an exclusive Radiohead performance. The Pitchfork people have to be stoked.
It’s the final countdown. Monday, April 7 sees the much anticipated launch of Pitchfork.tv, Pitchfork’s rebuttal to the age-old complaint, “There’s nothing on.” Launching with hours of on-demand music content by the artists we love, we should recall two important facts about April 7. The day marks the birth date of Francis Ford Coppola and the end of prohibition. A day destined for the launch of a [...]