Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Hole So it took Courtney Love 12 years to make Hole’s new album, Nobody’s Daughter. Nobody’s shocked. The band is performing in support of new the LP, which came [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. However, [...]
Copenhagen, Denmark, quintet Alcoholic Faith Mission’s moniker is an ironic play on the concept of the Apostolic Faith Mission, taken from a neon sign found by two of the band members while they were in Brooklyn. Since then, the group has gone on to record a couple albums and tour the world; it returns today [...]
Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
Ghostkeeper is the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Shane Ghostkeeper and drummer/vocalist Sarah Houle. The two fashioned their Pavement-meets-Jon-Spencer aesthetic before recruiting a bassist and second guitarist to round out their sound. With giant cardboard faces and shifting green-screen backdrops of forested vistas, Ghostkeeper’s video for “Haunted,” the first single from its recent self-titled album (on Flemish [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): David Sanborn Saxophonist David Sanborn (a onetime Ween collaborator) is promoting tomorrow’s release of his 24th studio album, Only Everything. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Gogol Bordello These New [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
Apparently, experience as a dog-sled handler transcribes to beautiful folk songs. After four years working with huskies in rural Alaska, Paul Basile moved back home to Brooklyn to polish off melodies he created on nights by the fire. Basile shares a remarkable physical resemblance to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and his band with guitar whiz Patrick [...]
Not long after the release of their second album, 2007′s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. [...]
