More Foo Fighters U.S. tour dates announced
For all you followers of the Foo who felt let down by the lack of tour dates that were previously announced for the band’s U.S. trek, here is some good news. Foo Fighters have added more performances on to their North American trek. Originally scheduled for only six dates spanning throughout the months of January and February, the band has joyously tacked on some more shows. The Foo Fighters will now kick off their tour on Jan. 16 in Sunrise, Fla. and will conclude their journey in Minneapolis, Minn. on Feb. 27. Tickets for select shows are on sale now.... read more
Music festival giants collide at Vineland, N.J.
C3 Presents, the concert promoters behind Austin City Limits and revivers of Lollapalooza, want to introduce you to a little slice of Jersey farmland called Vineland. The city's old-school website trumpets a "harvest of opportunities" for residents, and C3 sees things the same way. The concert giant is bringing a new U.S. festival to the area this coming August, with some help from U.K. heavyweight Festival Republic (a majority-owned company of Live Nation). Festival Republic's director Melvin Benn may not have a lot of name recognition here in the States, but he is the man behind essentially every major music... read more
Carson Daly crosses the WGA picket lines
NBC's Last Call With Carson Daly is resuming production today, after it went shut down from the Writer's Guild of America strike three weeks ago. This makes it the first late-night program to start back up. This has also prompted many to ask the question, "Carson Daly had writers?" Zing! An NBC spokeswoman told The New York Times that it was Mr. Daly who made the decision to start taping new episodes again, possibly prompted by Universal Media Sudios' threat to lay off nonwriting staff members at the end of the week if production didn't start up again. Those questioning... read more
Daptone Records teams up with Scion for sampler
You've heard Band of Horses in Ford commercials and Wilco in advertisements for Volkswagen. Yes, car companies have begun love indie music too. Now, collaborations are reaching past the automotive ads, and steering into the recording studio. Scion, a member of the Toyota Motor Sales family, has partnered up with Daptone records to help sponsor and produce a remix album. The compilation will feature revamped tracks from various artists that are on the Daptone label, such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and the Budos Band, jazzed up by the likes of Mark Ronson, Kenny Dope and Mad Professor.... read more
Jim White find his Transnormal Skiperoo on new album
Just by reading singer/songwriter Jim White's press release for his new album, Transnormal Skiperoo, it's easy to tell that this man keeps the stakes high in his art. How's this for an artist summary?: "Jim White is a highly original voice in the immense Southern gothic tradition. When broken humanity aches for grace, music like his may give you a shot at redemption." Who could have known this whole time that Jim White was step one toward salvation? White's new record, however, does mark an important moment in his own quest for grace. That album title actually has an... read more
Nelly Furtado to release live DVD/CD
With Pearl Jam, Amy Winehouse, Dispatch and countless others dropping the digital video bomg recently, DVD season seems to be heating up. Whether it’s an early documentary, like Manchester Orchestra’s What’s Left Behind, or The Flaming Lips’ skillfully crafted The Fearless Freaks, these digitized musical experiences continue to spring forth from every genre in the rock 'n' roll hemisphere. Now, what music category Nelly Furtado fits into is difficult to pin point, but its safe to say that all epochs of her career will be represented on her upcoming concert DVD/CD Loose: The Concert. Set for release on Dec.... read more
Jonny Greenwood composes There Will Be Blood score
Resident composer and news furor creator Jonny Greenwood mustered up another movie soundtrack, this time for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film There Will Be Blood. Greenwood, who's recently been hobnobbing with the BBC Concert Orchestra (when his other project's not inspiring you to name your own price for Paste subscriptions), wrote "loads" of music for the new original score after dipping his toes in long portions of the film and script. The score skims across some of his BBC-commissioned piece "Popcorn Superhet Receiver," which will debut in the U.S. as part of the Wordless Music Series in New York City... read more
Black Mountain tours, gets ready for the Future
A couple of months ago, we told you that the ominously named Black Mountain would return to the world of rawk on January 21, the date the band goes In The Future. But before then, you, dear reader, can start to understand Black Mountain’s temporal journey by downloading “Tyrants,” an epic eight-minute piece from (the) Future. Check it out right here. In addition, the band has announced a few American tour dates, which will start to introduce the west coast to Future. Alternatively, if you’re currently reading this in a country that belongs to the European Union, see Black Mountain... read more
Pinback performs radio shows
Radio show. It sounds like something that music videos killed a long time ago, but in fact, it’s a viable, thriving concept. It lets a radio station bring the music directly to its audience, without the interference of DJs or commercials (except for the ones that the audience will be looking at during the entire concert). The critically acclaimed men of Pinback will rock out for radio in December, which will see the band play four holiday-themed concerts in four cities for four radio stations with four different numbers involving decimal points (103.1, 96.5, 94.9 and 106.5). Sounds like fun.... read more
Editors prepare for winter tour
Go ahead, make a dangling modifier joke. British anthem rockers Editors won’t have to revise any part of 2007. Next year looks good from here, too. Their sophomore album, An End Has A Start, is going platinum in the U.K. right now. In January, the band will hit these shores for a two-month tour alongside Hot Hot Heat and Louis XIV. Despite all the success, the big question remains: how can a band called Editors ignore the importance of the definitive article? Sure it’s cliché, but give yourselves some credit, guys. You aren’t just any editors. Those dates: January 8... read more
Signs of Life 2007: Best Music
[TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2007] [STAFF PICKS] [WRITER PICKS] Our newest issue, highlighting the best music, movies, books and games of 2007, or what we like to call "Signs of Life," hits subscribers' doorsteps and America's finest newsstands this week. But if you just can't wait to get your mittens on a copy, don't worry, that's why we have the Internet. Click here to read about the 2007 Signs of Life in music, including a wonderful state of the music union introduction from veteran critic Geoffrey Himes. Want to know who's #1? Well, we'll go you 99 better, and offer... read more
Interpol live EP sees indie release today
Oh Interpol, you really do surprise us sometimes. We thought we'd only have the group's new Love to Admire for the duration of 2007. But now there's a fresh little Interpol gem coming down the pipeline - and this one is for independent music shoppers only. Yeah, that's right, no big box posers are getting onboard this train. Today, the group's Interpol Live EP arrives via ThinkIndie.com. The website is dishing out the six-song package to its affiliated stores, which represent some of the finest little indie boutique shops in the land. The record captures selections from a live Interpol... read more
Jermaine makes Jackson 5 reunion slightly more official
The saga of the Jackson clan is so lengthy, convoluted and tragic that it could probably fill the pages of a Dickensian epic. Let's call it Blighted Expectations: A Tale of Five Jacksons. Well, as we've previously reported, there could soon be a new entry to the Jackson family history: a 21st Century reunion tour. But whereas the source on that last report (a promoter) was a bit dubious, now one of the Jacksons is on the record stating that the reunion will happen, with the King of Pop included and everything. Jermaine Jackson spoke with BBC 6 Music, and... read more
Kanye West, Evel Knievel resolve video beef
Okay, so maybe the blog hounds at Stereogum beat us to the punch on this one, but the above photo deserves to be circulated to every corner of the Internet. As some of you readers may recall, Evel Knievel sued Kanye West last year for appropriating his likeness in the high-wire video for West’s “Touch The Sky.” It was the classic case of adding injury to insult – the million-dollar, Pamela Anderson-featuring video had just lost at the 2006 MTV Europe Video Awards to a couple of unknown artists named Justice and Simian. Kanye did not take the first slight... read more
Tin Man brings twist on Oz to the small screen
While we reported about an in-the-works film remake of The Wizard of Oz a while ago, coming much sooner is a Sci Fi Channel reimaginging titled Tin Man. And while the former provides a dark, frankly creepy look at the series' concepts, the the latter may actually offer an adult (as opposed to adolescent male) take on the series. The series takes its source from the same Frank L. Baum novels as everything else, but will be trying to tell the classic story in a more serious manner. And more action-packed. "It's postmodern, more like Indiana Jones than a fairly... read more
Christian Bale in the new Terminator?
Unlike the typical news items around these parts, which are oh-so-rigidly set in stone, this one should be taken with a grain of salt. However, since the rest of the Internet has picked it up with the fullest force of the fiercest of rumor mills, perhaps it's worth noting at this point even without studio confirmation. Ahem. Here goes, then... Christian Bale, everyone's favorite Batman who's also shone his acting chops in 3:10 to Yuma and Rescue Dawn this year, is reported to play John Connor in the upcoming Terminator series reboot, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The rumor comes... read more
Loudon Wainwright III and Joe Henry to collaborate
Turns out Loudon Wainwright III is feeling a bit nostalgic, as older musicians tend to do. Sure, the comedic genius of Knocked Up sparked him to create Strange Weirdos, a batch of new material alongside producer and fellow singer/songwriter Joe Henry. But what about the glory days of Wainwright's early work, when it was just him, an acoustic guitar and reams of vibrant lyrical imagery? Once again with the aid of Henry, Wainwright plans to revisit the work of his first three albums. Entitled Recovery, the compilation fleshes out those previously threadbare tunes with the session players from Weirdos... read more
Neil Young gets feminized on tribute CD
Neil Young has always been a man's man, the kind who'd go get plastered before a gig and then deliver a performance that would change the lives of everyone in the audience. His attire and guitar sound have always been ragged, and it isn't too much of a stretch to imagine him and the members of Crazy Horse driving around in a pickup truck together, firing off rifles intermittently. So perhaps the guy could use a feminine touch every once in awhile. Hence a new tribute album to Young that says everything you need to know in its title: Cinnamon... read more
Lightspeed Champion to blaze across the U.K., release debut
After escaping the strange little circus that was Test Icicles, Devonte Hynes now prepares to strike out on his own as Lightspeed Champion. Will the inevitable comparisons to his past work be cruel or kind to the young musician? Well, judging by the video for his debut single, "Galaxy Of The Lost," Hynes is out to craft his own whimsical playground of sound. "Galaxy" will appear on Falling Off The Lavender Bridge, Lightspeed Champion's first album. The release arrives in the U.K. on Jan. 21, and stateside Feb. 5 through Domino Recordings. Despite Hynes' record label allegiance, Lavender features several... read more
Daft Punk brings euphoria with live album, chat
It often becomes difficult to talk to someone who's seen a Daft Punk show about the experience. Thirty or so seconds into the conversation, their eyes go wide as they recount the light show, the throb of the bass and the pyramid... oh Lord, the pyramid! And then they're lost to the world, trapped in the memories of electro-house rapture. Thank goodness the cybernetic gentlemen behind Daft Punk are putting out a live album. Finally, we'll have an objective, high-quality recording of the events that surround a Daft Punk gig. The physical copy of Daft Punk Alive 2007 arrives Dec.... read more
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