NEW DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – “THIS FUCKING JOB” (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)
As we mentioned a ways back, Patterson Hood told the Irish music blog Swear I’m Not Paul that Drive-By Truckers eighth studio album, the official followup to 2008’s Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, is “very much a rock album. Very melodic and more rocking than anything since disc […]

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Go, the solo debut from Sigur Rós vocalist Jónsi Birgisson will be released by XL on March 23. Yesterday, Birgisson stopped by “Soundcheck”, a show on the New York public radio station WNYC, to play a few songs live. The show is online now; you can click here to hear it.
On piano and three-stringed ukulele, […]

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Prince Writes Minnesota Vikings Fight Song, “Purple and Gold”, Hear It Now
“raise every voice and let it b known / in the name of the purple and gold”
Oh, Prince. How do you continue to be so weird and awesome? MTV reports (via Fox’s Twin Cities affiliate) that Prince has recorded a fight song for […]

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REM’s ‘Everybody Hurts’ has been selected by Simon Cowell as his charity single to raise money for the Haiti earthquake appeal.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown encouraged Cowell to release a Live Aid-style single to raise money for the country, and acts rumoured to have been approached to appear on the new version of the track include […]

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Thom Yorke è pronto a tornare in studio
Thom Yorke ha dichiarato ieri che la sua band, Eraser, tornerà a suonare concerti ad aprile. Il cantante ha anche confermato l’annuncio fatto pochi giorni fa del chitarrista dei Radiohead, Ed O’Brien: il gruppo inglese tornerà in studio a febbraio per restarci un mese. “Il problema al momento […]

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