Eddie Vedder is releasing a solo album and a concert film on May 31. The 16-track Ukulele Songs (Monkeywrench) collects original and cover songs performed by Vedder on ukulele and features guest appearances by Cat Power and Glen Hansard (Swell Season), while the Water On The Road DVD compiles 24 tracks Vedder performed live at [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
New Orleans duo Generationals are releasing sophomore album Actor-Caster on March 29 via the Park The Van label. Singers/multi-instrumentalists Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer recorded the 10-track LP last summer over the course of a month in heat-soaked Washington, D.C., which may have something to do with the decidedly downcast lyrics. Regardless, Actor-Caster is well worth [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
Time & Space (Asthmatic Kitty) is a seven-song digital release that features My Brightest Diamond, Black Heart Procession, Danielson, Fol Chen, Son Lux, Arrington de Dionyso and Helado Negro’s Roberto Carlos Lange each covering a song by Liz Janes. And as Janes’ own work is pretty all over the place (in a very good way), it’s [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 27-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. Interview with David Lester in With Arms Outstretched Arms zine (Leeds, U.K., 2007) “I have always loved posters, and I have always [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
The New York Dolls have released a video for ”Fool For You Baby,” the first single off the just-released Dancing Backward In High Heels (429). The Jeremy Johnstone-directed clip features original band members David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, as well as a host of other freaks. Watch the video below, and catch the band on tour [...]
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): Oh Land Rerun from March 2. The ballerina-turned-electro-pop star supported her debut U.S. album with a performance of “Sun Of A Gun.” Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Cut Copy [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
