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The Go Team’s sound is difficult to describe. For starters, there are six members in the band — one of which, Ninja, combines a mixture of rapping, chanting and singing in her lead singer duties. Hell, the band was strictly a studio effort until Ninja came along to give them…

But one song does not a full album make. Cut Copy has made the entirety of Zonoscope available for album stream. However, there’s a small catch…

​With Kings Of Leon and Kanye West as headliners, I understand that some may choose to read that headline with a different meaning.However, what I mean to say is that festival passes are very, very close to selling out for the 2011 edition of Coachella. UPDATE: Coachella 2011 is officially…

​Some bad news out of Australia last night (or this morning or whenever)…While he was playing his final song of the night, Jimmy Buffett fell off of the front edge of the stage, TMZ reports.The 64-year old singer/partier was apparently blinded by a flash of lights while performing his last…

While Stewart has some iconic songs to his name — “Maggie May” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” to name a couple — yet it’s his 1984 masterpiece “Infatuation” that might just be his best. A criminally under-appreciated, vaguely stalker-y tune, “Infatuation” features perhaps Stewart’s best music video. If we can’t…

What does Dan Bejar do for an encore?At this point in his long, celebrated career, there’s not much he can do. Today marks the release of his ninth LP, Kaputt, under his Destroyer moniker. Tha Vancouver singer-songwriter and New Pornographer has been churning out albums since 1996, yet Kaputt is…

This year sure has been a fickle beast thus far — treacherous weather, Jared Lee Loughner and now a slumping music industry.Showroom Of Compassion, the latest album from venerable rock band Cake, took the top spot on the Billboard charts for the week ending on January 16, Yahoo! News reports.That’s good news,…

Coachella’s official lineup should be announced very, very soon — lest anyone forget that this week is usually when the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival makes it big announcement.In lieu of the entire festival lineup, a few acts have already been confirmed for the festival’s 2011 edition — Duran…

It’s never too early to speculate who’s playing this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, set for the weekend of April 15-17. British Sea Power’s April 9 date at the Clubhouse all but confirms that they will be playing Coachella, most likely on Saturday — although a Sunday gig…

​If you’re like The Decemberists lead singer Colin Meloy, then you enjoy folk-tinged albums rooted in verbosity and literary symbolism. Thank god, then, that for their sixth album, Meloy and his merry cohorts are staying true to what they do best. The King Is Dead lacks a concept — unlike…

[jump] Amy Winehouse – Valerie (Slow) by Pooh_BearPooh_Bear has slowed down some other songs, but I might point your attention to his sped up version of Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” There’s a hint of some Amy Winehouse in there, too. Who know either speeding up…

Leading the way, at least in my book, are 1990s alternative rockers Toad The Wet Sprocket. I’ll say it right now — I love me some TTWS. I cannot listen to their 1991 masterpiece “All I Want” and not just feel good inside, you know?I absolutely adored the song in…

John McRea and company have studied up in their six year absence, coming back with fresh ideas for their latest work – ideas such as the introduction of reverb, something the band had shied away from in the past. Helping balance out the reverb is another first for the band…

I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited for such a  fortuitous list of just announced shows. Joining Smith Westerns in the frenzy are Rocky Votolato, Quiet Riot and The B-52s.The rest of this week’s non-overly-biased-by-myself just announced shows:try{for(var lastpass_iter=0; lastpass_iter…

How does the band follow up their previous album, a revamped score to the 1934 documentary The Man From Aran? By getting back to grandiose guitars and dense lyrics, a formula that made the band’s 2003 debut The Decline of British Sea Power such an intriguingly different album. The band…

Colin Meloy and company are back to their usual folk-inspired roots, keeping their whimsical air about them even though The King Is Dead is the band’s third major-label release. Harmonicas and twangier-than-normal guitars join the fold this time around, while Meloy’s trademark vocals are at perhaps their best. But don’t let…