All posts from 20 July 2007

Einstürzende Neubauten
The German noisemakers are set to release “All Open Again,” or, as it says on the label, “Alles Wieder Offen,” on October 23rd. It is the third release from their recent fan-funded recording project.
The Offspring
Punknews reports that the Orange County, Calif. band have completed over a dozen tracks so far for their upcoming release, […]

Tags: einsturzende neubauten, sunburned hand of the man, system of a down, the offspring, turin brakes

FESTIVAL: Pop Montreal
The five-day event (held, appropriately enough, in Montreal, Canada) has announced a first batch of artists expected to appear from October 3-7. The list includes Patti Smith, Caribou, The National, Fujiya and Miyagi, Magnolia Electric Co. and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists.

View full lineup (You Ain’t No Picasso)
More details (Official festival site)

EVENT: Revenge […]

Tags: dirty projectors, jennifer gentle, lucinda williams, menomena, mum, nada surf, pop montreal, yacht

The Cure are planning a DVD documentary about themselves, to be released in 2009 in conjunction with their 30th anniversary. Next year will also see deluxe double-disc reissues of Cure albums “Wish” and “Disintegration.”
If you thought people were done cashing in on the work of the late Elliott Smith, think again. “Elliott Smith,” a new […]

Tags: annie lennox, elliott smith, freebass, hold steady, joni mitchell, madonna, new order, rolling stones, starbucks, the cure

In a summer of comebacks, one of the unlikeliest belongs to the Meat Puppets, the 1980s underground rockers who peaked in the mid-1990s after opening for (and playing with) Nirvana. That modest success was followed by musical and personal setbacks, including bassist Cris Kirkwood’s long struggle with heroin addiction that led to legal problems and […]

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