Archive for the year 2007

Virb.com’s Teevio aka Stephen Hallgren

Virb.com’s Teevio aka Stephen Hallgren

VIRB.com launched earlier this year and has so much together to organize your digital life. There’s a million social netwrking site designed to be the next big thing but VIRB delivers. This week Dan catches up with Teevio aka Stephen Hallgren to talk about what the site does currently and what’s coming up. [...]

 
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Nada Surf Releases New Album in 2008 and Gives You MP3 Now

Nada Surf Releases New Album in 2008 and Gives You MP3 Now

Nada Surf will be releasing their new record, “LUCKY,” on February 5th, 2008 on Barsuk Records, and will be offering fans the opportunity to hear and download “See These Bones” at www.myspace.com/nadasurf starting today. “LUCKY” is Nada Surf’s fifth record and third for Seattle indie Barsuk Records, following the successful and critically lauded “Let Go” [...]

 
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Popping The FREE Downloads

Popping The FREE Downloads

Here’s a few stops on the information superhighway of note.

First:
Check out Molly (a seriously gifted creative artist) at Tailor Otto. She’s posted a mix for your downloading fun, featuring tracks from Ingrid Michaelson, David Bazan and Paper Route.
Get it here

Second:
You got to go grab the first mixtape from the genius over at [...]

How Much Did You Pay For Radioheads “In Rainbows”?

How Much Did You Pay For Radioheads “In Rainbows”?

Has the music industry changed in 24 hours, or will this be something that send large record companies running for cover for the next several weeks and months as the ripple effect continues to wash over the web and our eardrums?
Regardless of where you stand on the “Industry” (this can have ramifications on the smaller [...]

Soapbox or Weathered? – you decide.

At first glance I thought to myself, “Come on people – music is a gift, not a tool for the politically inclined”. I am all about a good protest song, an artist’s inclination to “inform” the world of injustice, or educate the ignorant – but an entire record dedicated to furthering a political [...]

Holler, Wild Rose!

The beloved sons of NYC/New Jersey are on the show this week. Holler, Wild Rose! are really making a name for themselves. Having recently just released their first full length, Our Little Hymnal, life isn’t slowing down for these warrior poets. In just the first 2 weeks since it’s release they’ve been [...]

 
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This Week in Releases

Band Of Horses: Cease to Begin [CD] THE DROP Recommends
Beirut: The Flying Club Cup [CD]
Cass McCombs: Dropping the Writ [CD]
Dead Kennedys: Milking the Sacred Cow [CD]
Electric Six: I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master [CD]
Enon: Believo! (reissue) [CD]
Enon: Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds [CD]
Fiery Furnaces: Widow City [CD]
His Name Is Alive: [...]

Best News Ever?

It is my great joy to let out that Radiohead is releasing their new record, In Rainbows, on the 10th of October.  How random is this?  Extremely random and utterly absurd.  I mean, who announces they are releasing a record 10 days prior to the record coming out.  Radiohead, I suppose would be the only [...]

Architecture in Helsinki on Tour

10-10 Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom %*
10-11 New York, NY – The Gramercy Theatre %*
10-12 Brooklyn, NY – Studio B %*
10-13 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club %*
10-14 Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall %*
10-16 Chicago, IL – Metro %*
10-18 Toronto, Ontario – The Opera House %*
10-19 Montreal, Quebec – La Tulipe %*
10-20 Tempe, AZ [...]

This Weekend – Into The Wild

This Weekend – Into The Wild

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