The Dixie Chicks are back with a new album after a fairly long quiet spell following a great deal of controversy. You might recall them having become the pariahs of the country music world when lead singer Natalie Maines publicly criticized then-president George W. Bush. The buzz on the Internets today is whether the old [...]
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VHS OR BETA: New Single to drop soon!
If you’re like me, you’ve probably been wondering what happened to Louisville’s VHS OR BETA. It seems like they’ve been featuring the same songs on their MySpace page forever, and MTV.com only has one music video available to watch from them. (The delightful “Can’t Believe A Single Word,” featured below.) Well, the buzz on their [...]
New Music from Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart’s new album, “What Will We Be,” came out last week, and Stereogum is offering a free stream of samples from it. If you’re new to Devendra, you might remember him as having dated Natalie Portman and featured her in the video to his trippy song, Carmencita. Here’s the video for Carmencita, which is [...]
December is a time for Christmas Albums
Today it’s officially December, and you know what that means: crazy holiday sales, commercials for products you’ve never heard of before but think you might need, and tons of holiday-timed albums on the shelves. Although record labels are pushing out albums in all genres to sync with gift-buying, the holiday albums you’ll see this month [...]
New Music from Justin King
Justin King, an amazing guitarist and sometimes-war-photographer, has just released his first solo album since the dissolution of his band, The Apologies, a couple of years ago, and the first release he’s created since splitting with Epic Records. Humilitas Occidit Superbiam is available for purchase through iTunes and CDBaby, but you can listen to it [...]