Archive for June 29th, 2012
WikiLeaks Releases ‘Beat the Blockade’ Benefit CD
June 29th, 2012
WikiLeaks announced today that they are releasing their first CD Beat the Blockade According to a statement the disc features "12 cool and inspiring songs about the struggles of WikiLeaks Julian Assange Bradley Manning and Anonymous" The tunes were donated by politically charged artists such as English rapper Dan Bull...
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Linkin Park Song of All Time?
June 29th, 2012
Linkin Park released Living Things their first studio album in two years earlier this month Like their previous two albums it was produced by Rick Rubin and member Mike Shinoda Industry experts expect it to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200 next week though Maroon 5's new disc...
Lauryn Hill Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion
June 29th, 2012
Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty in a New Jersey courtroom on Friday to evading federal taxes on $18 million earned between 2005 and 2007 the Associated Press reports The singer faces a maximum one-year sentence for each of the three counts Hill declined to speak after the hearing but her attorney...
Adele Pregnant With Her First Child
June 29th, 2012
Adele's indefinite hiatus from music might be lasting a little longer The singer just announced that she is pregnant with her first child on her official website "I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together" she wrote "I wanted you to hear the news direct...
Metric’s Emily Haines Talks New LP, Collaborating With Lou Reed
June 29th, 2012
"I'm just as fucked up as they say" Metric's Emily Haines sang at Los Angeles' El Rey Theater on June 20th hitting the packed crowd with the provocative line that opens the Canadian indie crew's fifth album Synthetica "It's become a rallying cry" Haines tells Rolling Stone speaking from a...
M83 to Score Next Tom Cruise Movie
June 29th, 2012
French electronic artist Anthony Gonzalez who records as M83 is set to score the upcoming sci-fi film from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski Indiewire's the Playlist blog reports Oblivion which stars Tom Cruise is a fitting aesthetic match-up for M83 over the past decade Gonzalez's act has developed a rousing...
Premiere: Hortlax Cobra, ‘Viva Le Difference’
June 29th, 2012
By day John Eriksson sings arranges and produces indie tracks as a member of Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John By night he is synth-pop act Hortlax Corbra a solo project in which he takes on the persona of a half-man half-cobra His video for "Viva Le Difference" a song...
Odd Future Go to War in ‘Sam (Is Dead)’
June 29th, 2012
Odd Future debuted their latest video/short film on Thursday night a war-is-hell clip for the cut "Sam (Is Dead)" from their latest release The OF Tape Vol 2 Directed by Tyler the Creator the video finds Domo Genesis spitting over a lazy synth beat while he and an army of...
Maroon 5 Drop by ‘Fallon’ for ‘Payphone’ Performance
June 29th, 2012
Maroon 5 stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday to perform "Payphone" the foot-tapping earworm of a first single from their latest album Overexposed While Pittsburgh MC Wiz Khalifa was not on hand to deliver his guest verse Adam Levine – that bottomless well of charisma – led the group...
Shepard Fairey ‘Overwhelmed’ by Rolling Stones Logo Redesign
June 29th, 2012
The Rolling Stones unveiled their 50th Anniversary logo this week and though its designer Shepard Fairey has collaborated with Mick Jagger before (on the album art for last year's SuperHeavy LP) he admits that he was still "overwhelmed" by Jagger's request that he retool the band's famed lips-and-tongue logo We asked...