By Jennifer Marston on March 8, 2010
A quick look at where some of our favorite artists are headed in the coming months.
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Posted in News, Tours | Tagged Band of Horses, Busdriver, Cold Cave, Crystal Castles, Dosh, Los Campesinos!, midlake, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, These New Puritans, We Are Wolves
By Jennifer Marston on February 3, 2010
Earlier last month, Memphis garage-rock pioneer Jay Reatard passed away at the age of 29. According to The Memphis Commerical Appeal, Reatard—born Jimmy Lindsey Jr.—was found dead in his home. The same paper revealed autopsy details today. Shelby County Medical Examiner Dr. Karen E. Chancellor stated that Reatard died from “cocaine toxicity,” and that “alcohol [...]
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Posted in News | Tagged Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Definitive Jux, DFA Records, Jack White, Jay Reatard, midlake, The Dead Weather
By Jennifer Marston on October 27, 2009
Midlake‘s three-year hiatus has been somewhat intentional, since the band, according to a recent statement, was very concerned with making a follow-up to 2006′s The Trials of Van Occupanther that “carried on moving and creating and pushing for a newer sound and emotion.”
Keeping that in mind, Bella Union, who will release the new album just in time for Groundhog Day, has said that The Courage of Others will contain less soft-rock and more of a “definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound.”
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