All posts from 19 September 2007

Ryan Adams
Adams fans accustomed to the prolific artist’s usual release schedule will have to make do with a mere EP if they want new material in 2007. The “Follow The Lights” EP (due October 23rd) includes two new songs and several covers.
Beastie Boys
Although the Beasties’ most recent release, “The Mix-Up,” was an instrumental-only affair, that […]

Tags: beastie boys, british sea power, club 8, gorillaz, ryan adams, spiritualized, zack de la rocha

It’s official: this week’s Billboard album sales chart has Kanye West’s “Graduation” in first place, selling a stunning 957,000 copies in its debut week and in the process scoring the 15th highest weekly sales total since 1991 and the biggest debut of the year. As we all know, 50 Cent had threatened to retire if […]

Tags: 50 cent, kanye west, radiohead, spiralfrog

The first song-based solo album for the Sonic Youth frontman since the mid-90s, “Trees Outside the Academy” differs from his band’s output in one major respect: it is almost entirely acoustic. Moore recorded much of the album as a trio with violinist Samara Lubelski and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelly, and J Mascis also shows […]

Tags: sonic youth, thurston moore