Rockin' New Tunes Out Today ...

Del the Funky Homosapien - Eleventh Hour
Junkie XL - Booming Back at You
Mike Patton - A Perfect Place Soundtrack

Releases This Week ...

Until things are back to normal around here, my posts will be a bit sporadic. That being said, here's some new albums to make your ears bleed ...


Autechre - Quaristice
Bauhaus - Go Away White
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us

New Music Today ...

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James Soundtrack
The Crystal Method - Drive
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time for a Love Revolution
Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group - Calibration
Nada Surf - Lucky

Wow, It's Been A While ...

It's a new year and hopefully there will be lots of good music. So here's this week's releases ...

Beck - Odelay DELUXE
Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Van Morrison - various re-issues
Willie Nelson - Moment of Forever

Lou Reed To Keynote SXSW

The South By Southwest Music Conference and Film Festival are pleased to announce that Lou Reed will be the keynote speaker for 2008. Reed’s keynote will be held in conjunction with a screening of Julian Schnabel’s film “Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin,’” which documents a recent performance of the landmark 1973 album. Reed’s groundbreaking work with the Velvet Underground and subsequent solo work reverberate through the music world to this day. His music continues to explore themes and sounds in a singular style, staking new territory for rock and roll. Reed will speak at the Austin Convention Center on March 13 as the kickoff of the twenty-second annual SXSW.

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This Week's Releases ...

Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings
Daniel Johnston/Various - Discovered Covered
Kiss - Kissology V.3 (DVD)
Tool - Vicarious (DVD)

Von Bondies Tour

The Von Bondies have announced a tour of North America, kicking off in Ann Arbor, MI on January 9.

The band recently completed the recording of their album ‘Love, Hate And Then There’s You’, which will be released next summer.

The album, which is the follow up to 2004’s ‘Pawn Shoppe Heart’, was produced by Rick Parke, Peter Katis and Butch Walker.

Meanwhile the band have released a four-song EP ‘We Are Kamikazes Aiming Straight For Your Heart’, available at their Myspace page and at the upcoming shows.

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Another Band Rises From The Ashes ...

The ashes of Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu/Rocket From The Crypt that is. Hot Snakes were incredible and I'm not sure that this can live up to that, but here's hoping. The main thing keeping it from this, is that Rick won't be handling the vocals. John Reis has created this and it sounds like he will be doing the vocals.

"John Reis has also formed yet another new band. In addition to Reis, the currently unnamed group features the talents of Gar Wood (Hot Snakes, Beehive & the Barracudas), Jason Kourkounis (Hot Snakes, Mule, Delta 72), and Tommy Kitsos (CPC Gangbangs). The band will make its debut on March 25 with the release of its first album via Vagrant and Reis' own Swami Records. Then they'll hit the road."


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