M. Ward and Zooey continue to mount their televised late night charm offensive with a stop in at Craig Ferguson's L.A. studio last night, convenient for Matt since he was already out Coachella way. Upon premature enunciation, we pronounced "Change Is Hard" to be a "charmer," which combined with a slower tempo than Z & M's song choice for Conan ("Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" with Yo La Tengo), made for dramatically fewer "I'm comfortable and charming no really!" Zooey bugeyed smiles, more opportunity to focus and her sweet and vulnerable twang (get your mind out of the gutter). read more » Discuss Add this link to...Bury Add to:
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Included in the bunch:Kiss - AliveU2 - Rattle & HumDaft Punk - Alive 2007The Who - Live At LeedsWilco - Kicking TelevisionRadiohead - I Might Be WrongView the full list here.MP3: Daft Punk - One More Time
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Coachella conquered, Spiritualized have now set their sights on a long spring and summer out on the road, a bevy of bonus goodies surrounding forthcoming new album Songs in Aamp;amp;E, and the U.S. release of a certain iTunes EP. Let's start with that last one and work our way backwards, eh?
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Flight Of The Conchords' new album debuted at Number Three on the US Billboard chart this week, beating out pop star Ashlee Simpson who came in at Number Four.
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Little known fact about Slowdive/Mojave 3 main man and solo artist Neil Halstead: dude's an avid surfer. Pretty much the only fact I know about Jack Johnson: he surfs too. It's this mutual love of hanging 10, we'll playfully assume, that brought misters Halstead and Johnson together for a little business.
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Our good friend Kelli McNamara was front and center during last night's Verve concert at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden. She got to witness this legendary band perform plenty of favorites, including "Sonnet," "The Rolling People," "Lucky Man," "The Drugs Don't Work," "Space And Time"
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Veteran Canadian outfit Sloan are set to release their tenth studio full-length (discounting the Peppermint EP, including Recorded Live At A Sloan Party which was not recorded at a party, etc.) in 16 years. Prolific. That's what happens when you have four songwriters, though, and that's how they came upon the name for the new record: Parallel Play, as in that developmental psych term you learned while misdiagnosing yourself with every affliction in your Psych 101 book in high school. "I'm Not A Kid Anymore" comes from bassist/singer Chris Murphy, who explains the track's title like so: <
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