All posts from 6 August 2007

It’s another slow week for music releases, although fans of literary indie rock can begin studying the new Okkervil River disc on Tuesday. Here are the major releases landing on US record store shelves on Tuesday, August 7th:
Art In Manila: Set The Woods On Fire
The Brunettes: Structure & Cosmetics listen on AOL’s Spinner
Peter Case: Let […]

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Babyface
“Playlist,” the R&B singer’s 11th album, will arrive in stores September 18th. Primarily a covers record, the disc includes his takes on songs by James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Eric Clapton, and Jim Croce. (That’s not what you were expecting us to say, was it?)
Black Crowes
The band has finished recording its first album in half a […]

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Marilyn Manson is being sued by former bandmate Madonna Wayne Gacy (known to his parents as Stephen Bier) for failing to share profits in accordance with a 1993 agreement. Gacy believes that Manson was hiding much of the band’s profits from his fellow musicians, and using the money to acquire such items as a skeleton […]

Tags: amy winehouse, brian wilson, danger mouse, jay-z, john cale, lee hazlewood, marilyn manson, paul mccartney, robbie williams, rolling stones, shortwave set, van halen

Safe. That is the word being used by most critics to describe the fourth album (out Monday in the UK, and not yet available in the US) for the once eclectic and somewhat adventurous, 1960s-influenced English band. While a few reviewers enjoyed The Coral’s new direction, most missed the unpredictability that came with the band’s […]

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