Glen Hansard Announces Solo Debut, Rhythm and Repose
Glen Hansard—who is best known for his work with the Frames and formerly The Swell Season—is set to release his first ever solo album on June 19 on Anti- Records. The album is titled Rhythm and Response and is Hansard’s first album since The Swell Season’s 2009 album Strict Joy. read more
Iowa’s 80/35 Festival Announces Headliners
The fifth annual 80/35 Festival in Des Moines, Iowa released a partial lineup announcement yesterday. Don’t be fooled by two headliners—The Avett Brothers and Death Cab For Cutie—though, the young fest isn’t necessarily pegged as an indie/alternative event. Other performers will include Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up and Dan Deacon and a complete lineup of almost 40 acts will be confirmed in May. read more
Neil Young Files for Patents for Higher Quality Digital Audio
A few months ago, word leaked that Canadian rocker Neil Young hates mp3s. While not surprising or even out of character for the outspoken, established musician, the media ate it up—his anger and bold claim that Apple’s former king and digital music innovator, Steve Jobs, only listened to vinyl, anyway. read more
Refused to Make TV Debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Refused is set to make their TV debut on April 23 on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The TV appearance will be the band’s first as they did not perform on late-night TV during their run that ended in the late ‘90s. read more
Bear In Heaven: I Love You, It’s Cool
Jon Philpot, Joe Stickney and Adam Wills had maintained certain obscurity before they released the critically acclaimed Beast Rest Forth Mouth in 2009. Since then, however, the Brooklyn trio—known artistically as Bear In Heaven—has endured a whirlwind of change, playing some 200 shows, fine-tuning their live show and catering to bigger crowds in the process. read more
Watch The Trailer for Woody Allen's New Film To Rome With Love
The trailer for Woody Allen's anticipated follow up to last years Academy Award Winning Midnight In Paris has just arrived. 2012's To Rome With Love has brought in one particular surprise comes in form of a 76-year old man in black rimmed glasses. read more
Watch Dr. John and Dan Auerbach Play "Revolution" on Fallon
Dr. John stopped by Jimmy Fallon’s show to play a track from his latest album, the Dan Auerbach-produced Locked Down. The two played the track “Revolution” from the album with the songwriter’s massive band. read more
The Hunter
Though of a different genre, style and ideology, The Hunter parallels last year’s Drive in story and focus. Pensive and patiently paced, the film places an outsider in a perilous world where, amid a mission of crime, he entangles himself in the lives of a woman and her children, experiencing love and compassion for perhaps the first time. By film’s end, the tale has become a grand and gripping moral dilemma that, unlike Refn’s bleaker vision, plays out not as poetic justice but, instead, as divine grace.... read more
Ian Astbury Talks First Album From The Cult in Five Years
The Cult’s Ian Astbury speaks with a lulling calm. This tranquility pervades all topics of conversation ranging from his band’s evolution, growth and forthcoming album, Choice of Weapon, to his passionate, yet dystopian views on the future of America and the world. read more
Lollapalooza Hints at Lineup Acts Including Jack White, M83, Sigur Rós
And although the Lollapalooza doesn't reveal its 2012 lineup until midnight on Tuesday, April 11th, the festival has however, hinted at a slew of potential acts with ad displays that include artists Jack White, Sigur Rós, M83, Justice and more. read more
All Four Beatles’ Sons Could Form New Band
The Internet was collectively taken aback today when James McCartney—Sir Paul and Linda McCartney’s only son—told the BBC that he would be willing to jam with the other Beatles’ sons in a “Next Generation”-type group. read more
Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere
Toronto folk artist Tony Dekker and his Great Lake Swimmers made a name for themselves recording songs laden with natural imagery in odd locations. Their previous album, 2009’s Lost Souls, was recorded on an archipelago of islands straddling the U.S.-Canadian border. But for their fifth album in just shy of a decade, Great Lake Swimmers finally settled into a studio, and the result is their most mature and polished LP to date. read more
Bon Iver to Appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Austin City Limits
On April 19, Bon Iver is set to appear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. It's the first Ellen appearance for the Wisconsin band. With Ellen's humor and Vernon's say-all remarks, it should be an interesting TV event. read more
Super Meat Boy in Development for iOS
Looking for new and exciting ways to thoroughly destroy your iPhone? Good news! Team Meat has announced that a mobile version of its rage-inducing, incredibly frustrating PC/console hit Super Meat Boy is in development for iOS.... read more
U2’s Bono and The Edge Invest in Dropbox
Dropbox, a digital hosting and file-storage site, announced yesterday that two new big-name stars—Bono and The Edge from U2—will be joining its crew of investors. The company also posted a photo of the two stars with co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski and with Ali and Hadi Partovi (the founders of the now-dissolved music sharing service iLike who were also early investors in Dropbox). read more
Zammuto: Zammuto
Watching Nick Zammuto at his eco-ranch home in Vermont, one cannot help but be taken by the heartfelt beauty of it all: Here’s the young dad grilling pizzas, playing with his children; there’s his pregnant wife cutting a pie filled with homegrown blueberries. In family and in music, the man once behind The Books is an auteur of authenticity, alternately (and at times simultaneously) wedding opposites: playful and ponderous, analog and digital, organic and synthetic, permanent and ephemeral, fuzzy and foreboding. read more
Watch Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.'s Music Video for "We Almost Lost Detroit"
Today, Detroit indie-poppers Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. released their latest video, a cover of Gil Scott-Heron's classic "We Almost Lost Detroit." The song was released on their 2011 album It's A Corporate World. read more
Paste mPlayer Issue 39 Is Live!
Few bands have experienced a rise as rapid as Alabama Shakes, but hadn’t already paid its dues. The Shakes are on this week’s cover of Paste, which also features Trampled By Turtles, Zammuto, director Whit Stillman, and Morgan Sprulock’s new Comic-Con doc. Plus exclusive concert video from Of Monsters and Men, The Lumineers and Neil Young.... read more
Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib: Seeds
A Madlib co-sign generally spells success. The famed multitasker, hip-hop maven and noted abuser of psychotropics works within a spacious wheelhouse, composing trippy futurist manifestos for everyone from MF Doom to Freddie Gibbs, De La Soul to Ghostface Killah. While Madlib's solo work (2000's The Unseen, 2003's Shades of Blue) tends to be unwieldy, his newest pet project is wholly functional. The producer and creative muse/first-time collaborator Georgia Anne Muldrow are in unswerving lockstep; turns out it's not so hard doing business with strangers after all. read more
Dan Auerbach to Produce New Hanni El Khatib Album
Solo artist Hanni El Khatib can now cross off "Meet Dan Auerbach in Paris and talk obscure LA bands" from his list of to do. Dan Auerbach, THe Black Keys' frontman, is set to produce Khatib's garage rock, forthcoming album. read more
