The Good, the Bad & the Queen
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Label: Virgin Records
The Good The Bad and The Queen is a new supergroup album featuring an odd lineup –  Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Tony Allen (Africa 70/Fela Kuti) and Simon Tong (The Verve).
Produced by Danger Mouse, the goulash of each […]

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The SHINOBI: Heart Under Blade, the acclaimed Japanese ninjutsu/romance movie, will be released on DVD on Feb. 6, but here’s your chance to win a copy now!
Set in 1614, the story depicts the clash between two ninja clans and the ill-fated love between two young heirs. It’s like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon meets Romeo & […]

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Bright Eyes
Four Winds (EP)
Label: Saddle Creek
U.S. Release: March 6, 2007
Following the bipolar 2005 releases of the hard-hitting Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and the countrified I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, fans are on-edge to see which Conor Oberst is going to appear on April 10th’s upcoming LP, Cassadaga.
Until then, we’ll have to settle for […]

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The Stooges have a new album coming out on March 6th - their first album in 33 years!
It’s a 12 track LP called The Weirdness, which features three of the four original band members – Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton, and the ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt filling Dave Alexander’s […]

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The Western States Motel
The Western States Motel
Label: Firebird Field Recordings
Monterey, California’s Carl Jordan knows the value of a day spent staring at the ocean, and perhaps more importantly, the trip to get there.
With his debut album, The Western States Motel, Jordan and friends paint an acoustic sunshine pop soundscape set to electronic beats and […]

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Fujiya & Miyagi
Transparent Things
Label: Deaf Dumb and Blind Recordings
Q: What does Big Ben, Karate Kid, your dad’s old record player and a boatload of irony have in common?
A: Celebrated U.K. DJ trio Fujiya & Miyagi and their third LP, Transparent Things, which dropped last week. The US release of the record has bonus track “Reeboks […]

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The Dark Romantics
Some Midnight Kissin
Label: Lujo Records
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Man is inherently evil, according to the beliefs of dark romanticism. Isn’t that sad? Talk about a glass half empty mentality.
To this end, gothic fiction writers such as Poe, Melville and Hawthorne made a miserable mark on society by focusing on the darkness of the […]

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Eleni Mandell
Miracle of Five
Label: Zedtone Records
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Leave the Tom Waits and PJ Harvey comparisons at the door, my fellow hipsters. Eleni Mandell’s 6th album shows a transgression from the rock and country albums of the past.
Miracle of Five features the conversational songwriting of Bille Holiday, the soulful, sultry jazz tempations of […]

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Josh Rouse and Paz Suay
She’s Spanish I’m American
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Singer/songwriter Josh Rouse has come far for a Nebraska boy. With residence to-date numbering 8 states and now Spain, it’s no wonder his writing style has a worldly feel.
Case in point, Subtitulo, Rouse’s last album, was a veritable small town soundtrack of soft acoustic […]

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Albert Hammond, Jr.
Yours to Keep
Label: New Line Records
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Before his solo debut has even been released, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. has faced luggage theft, a mattress fire in the tour bus, and now according to NME, Hamond was involved in a high speed police chase while leaving Texas:

“It turned out that […]

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