Brian Eno

The BMI and Billboard Acoustic Brunch

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Ziggy Don't Mosh

Recordings

Pop Stops the Traffic

U2 still hasn't found what it's looking for--but has it given up trying?

Eye of the Orb

Picking the "ever growing pulsating brain" of Alex Paterson, don of ambient

Recordings

Picking the "ever growing pulsating brain" of Alex Paterson, don of ambient

Icebreaker International and Manual

Into Forever (Morr Music)

Top 10 selling CDs at Stinkweeds (1250 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe)

Chart-toppers for June 20 through 26

Skybox

Arco Iris
(Big Red Balloon)

Yeasayer's experimental rock finds a way to make a connection

Arco Iris
(Big Red Balloon)

Elf Power

In a Cave
(Ryko)

Coldplay

In a Cave
(Ryko)

David Byrne & Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
(everythingthathappens.com)

Blue Sky Black Death

Slow Burning Lights
(Babygrande)

Pitchfork Stays Sub-Par and Pretentious with New "Greatest Songs" Guide

The horde of amateur music critics at Pitchfork Media has just crapped out a tome titled The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside). The book purports to present "edifying essays" about the greatest 500 songs of the past thirty years and "all-new reviews" ... More >>

DJ Tommie Sunshine

A matter of taste

Odes for V.D.

Musicians muster up their favorite seduction songs

Beat on the Brat

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Like Star Trek With Worms

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Swindled Art

How to program your baby's musical tastes and pretend not to be trying

Anger Machine

Trent Reznor channels his rage into strong new songs

(N)ice Age

Album Leaf's down-to-earth Jimmy LaValle recorded his latest ambient work in Sigur Ròs' frosty Iceland and lived to tell about it

Califone,and Rebecca Gates

"Rootsy folk blues" blows through the Valley

Magic and Gloss

Producer of geniuses Daniel Lanois whips out his pedal-steel and goes it alone on Shine

Plaid

P-Brane (Warp)

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Burning, Man

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

The Golden Band

Genetic research and rock 'n' roll cross paths in the music of Austin's American Analog Set

Oasis and U2

Familiar to Millions (Epic Records) and All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)

Various artists

Staedtizism (~scape)

Ballet High and Dry

Staedtizism (~scape)

Roxy Music DVD Offers History of Influential Act that Mixed Art, Rock and High Style

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

The Rÿche

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

The Appleseed Cast

Eagle Rock Entertainment​ Not just any band could have their praises sung by fellow musicians as disparate as Bono, Siouxsie Sioux and Chic's Nile Rodgers, but then Roxy Music were not like any other band. Emerging from Great Britain in the early 1970s, U2's lead singer remembers Roxy like ... More >>

Paul McCartney's Five Songs Sillier Than "Silly Love Songs"

Paul McCartney famously sang, "Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs," on 1976's "Silly Love Songs."Love songs aren't the only silly songs, though. Over the course of his storied career, McCartney has indulged nearly every artistic impulse, from forays into classical music to avant- ... More >>

Growing: Pumps!

​Artist: GrowingTitle: Pumps!Release date: April 6Label: ViceNo less an authority than Pitchfork.com, the Bible of indie rock, declared the Brooklyn experimental group Growing to be "cruising music for Brian Eno fans." Better watch what you say, Pitchfork, or you're gonna have a lot of pissed-off ... More >>

Lily Allen is Wanted... By British Politicians

Lily Allen: Every British politician wants her. They want her bad.​Even if Lilly Allen is not in an extremely public fight with Courtney Love, she still finds ways to make headlines. According to NME, both the Conservative and the Labour Party invited the outspoken British recording artist to ... More >>

Lady Gaga Bruce Springsteen Elton John = Journey Cover Last Night

Photo from Kane/Wireimage.​So last night, Carnegie Hall was the place to be. Rolling Stone wrote a review of a star-studded benefit for the Rainforest Fund that included Sting performing a Fine Young Cannibals cover, Elton John doing an over-the-top rendition of Madonna's Like a Virgin, and the fi ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

​What more can be said about May's slate of new releases that hasn't already been said? I have been proclaiming this month as the year's best for new releases, and LCD Soundsystem only solidify that with their newest effort, This Is Happening. The lead single from the album "Drunk Girls" was a war ... More >>

What's Selling Faceoff: Stinkweeds vs. the Zia Records chain

​What's Selling is now a battle of the best, a local music duel of sorts. Stinkweeds and Zia are going head to head with indie versus hard rock, rap and hip-hop.Which of two record stores had the best compilation of top 10 albums this week?

Legendary Eastside Records Is Closing Its Doors

​What's Selling is now a battle of the best, a local music duel of sorts. Stinkweeds and Zia are going head to head with indie versus hard rock, rap and hip-hop.Which of two record stores had the best compilation of top 10 albums this week?

Sister Lovers: Paula Stop Pretending (1993)

Sister Lovers, "Paula Stop Pretending" ​ Welcome to Obscuro, a weekly feature where Up on the Sun dives deep into the world of vinyl oddities: private press jobs, major label cast-offs, and general thrift shop clutter that's thus far escaped anyone's attention. These LPs have been hiding out, coll ... More >>

Steve Nash, Duck Sauce Team Up With Vitamin Water

​A new commercial for Vitamin Water pairs up Steve Nash and "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce, according to Prefix. What a winning combination.Keeping it classy by wearing a suit and tie to a party and then at a fancy restaurant, Steve Nash plays himself in the ad. There couldn't be a better, more ... More >>

The Strobes Remix T. Rex Anthem "Bang a Gong (Get it On)"

​ Sometimes a remix doesn't need to drastically depart from an original song. The Strobes -- a Phoenix-based DJ collective featuring William Reed, Ryan Breen, Thomy Hoefer (AKA Prince $$) -- doesn't go off the map with their take on T. Rex's classic rock anthem "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," keeping t ... More >>

Carla Bozulich at Trunk Space, 9/9/11

Jason P. Woodbury​Carla Bozulich, Badwater Bob, Where Dead Voices Gather, and Tobie Milford The Trunk Space Friday, September 9, 2011 "That's a pretty song, right?" -- Badwater Bob There's only about twenty people in the Trunk Space, and we're sitting on the floor. Badwater Bob is on stage, ... More >>

Adrian Belew Concert Moves from Foundry to Crescent Ballroom

​Adrian Belew has an extensive résumé. The art-rocker has played with the avant-garde vanguard, clocking in time with King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, as well as playing straight up power pop with his band The Bears. Lately Belew has been t ... More >>