BEASTIE BOYS CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF ILL COMMUNICATION
30 years later and Ill Communication is still a jam. Not to date myself but I’m dating myself when I admit that I saw the Beasties on the Ill Communication tour. Geez, that makes me about 30 years old now. Enough of that nostalgia, read the press release below! Originally released 30 years ago today...
Wax Trax! Records Releasing 40th Anniversary Pressing Of Front 242’s ‘Endless Riddance’ Album On June 7
In 1984, WAX TRAX! RECORDS licensed its 4th release, a 12” by seminal Belgian band Front 242. Entitled Endless Riddance the record was the first US release for the band, and the beginning of an important relationship between the independent Chicago label and the four members from Brussels. 2024 marks 40 years of this friendship and the closing chapter of...
Outside Lands Announces Single Day Lineup
Outside Lands, now in its 16th year, will celebrate the finest music, food, wine, beer, cocktails and cannabis in Golden Gate Park on August 9 – 11. Single Day tickets go on sale tomorrow Thursday, May 30 at 10 AM PT exclusively at www.SFOutsideLands.com. Single Day GA tickets are $199 plus fees, Single Day GA+ tickets...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Share “Frogs”
Could “Frogs” be Nick Cave’s “Sunday Morning Comin’ Down?” There’s even a reference to Kris Kristofferson towards the end of the tune. Leave it to Mr. Cave to add a hint of violence to the proceedings and you have a bonafide classic. Listen to “Frogs” below. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have released“Frogs,” the second offering from their...
Wilco Announce Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP,Out June 28th via dBpm Records
In conjunction with Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, which takes place June 28-30th at MASS MoCA inNorth Adams, MA, the band announce a new EP, Hot Sun Cool Shroud, out June 28th via dBpm Records. Following the release of the band’s critically acclaimed album Cousin in 2023, Jeff Tweedy returned to the studio to revisit material recorded, but not completed, during those sessions. A couple of months later, Tweedy, working again with engineering...
Curses Share “Another Heaven”
Curses share the ultra synthy synth pop of “Another Heaven” today. There are so many 80’s throwbacks and references that I can’t keep up. I started to count them but I lost track. Is that expected? Most definitely. Having recently signed to Italians Do It Better for a new album, out later this year, Berlin-based Curses is today...