Category Archives: music
CBC Jumps On The Digital Music Band(Width)Waggon
Still not a lot of interesting new music out there, so rather than review some pretty sketchy releases I spent the week checking out the latest player to enter the digital music space, CBC Music.
Essentially, CBC Music is a free online radio platform featuring 40 stations that cover a wide-range of music genres. The site is also available as a free mobile app which means you can take CBC Music with you everywhere you go.
Now Hear This: Metallica’s Orion Music + More Festival
A couple of days ago one my old friends from high school posted on Facebook about buying tickets to Metallica’s two-night Orion Music + More Festival in Atlantic City. I almost exploded with jealousy – envy-green guts all over the keyboard I’m typing on right now.
Van Halen Follows Up 1984 With A Different Kind Of Truth: 28 Years Late, But It Was Worth The Wait
I was skeptical. I didn’t think it would be any good. I figured it was a cash grab. I was wrong. Well, it might still be a cash grab, but a darn groovy one at that.
Add It To The Collection: We all know that A Different Kind Of Truth is the first Van Halen album since 1984 to reunite lead singer and ring leader David Lee Roth with the Van Halens; brothers Eddie, Alex and Eddie’s son, Wolfgang, who is doing an admirable job making me forget about original bassist Michael Anthony. If you divide Van Halen in to three eras – (i) Roth (ii) Sammy Hagar or Van Hagar and (iii) Gary Cherone or Van Xtreme – this would technically be the band’s seventh album with Roth on vocals. More importantly, this would be the follow-up to VH’s incredible crossover, breakthrough masterpiece 1984 which played out perfectly in arenas, stadiums, schoolyards, backyards and on old Sony Walkmen. I actually remember going to a roller-skating birthday party at the age of 10 and “Jump” being played three times as we barrelled around the rink. If there’s an iconic moment of the early 1980’s, for me it’s the image of Roth karate-kicking his way in to living rooms across the continent via MTV.
Leonard Cohen Returns with Old Ideas while Lana Del Ray Tries To Deliver Some New Ones
A songwriting legend returns to the studio, while a Internet sensation tries to prove she’s more than a YouTube fluke.
Now Hear This: LCD Soundsystem’s New Build
What band or music artist makes you crazy? We all have at least one. You know, the kind of crazy that makes you sing at the top of your lungs whenever you put on an album. The kind of crazy that makes you drive 30 kilometers an hour over the speed limit whenever one of their songs comes on the radio. The kind of crazy that makes you dance in public even though you don’t ever dance in public.
I am crazy about LCD Soundsystem.
When I heard that they were going to play their final show in New York last year, I was pretty upset. No more breaking traffic laws to new songs? No more opportunities to have dance parties and sing-a-longs at LCD Soundsystem concerts? Crushing.
You know what the demise of one band means though. The members become free to do other things – like start new bands!
Late last year Al Doyle, from LCD Soundsystem’s touring band, and his Hot Chip band mate, Felix Martin announced that they were joining forces for a new project, appropriately named New Build. It sounds exactly how you expect an LCD Soundsystem/Hot Chip collaboration to sound – which is definitly not a bad thing. New Build have just released four new tracks. Give them a listen on the band’s official site.
(I’m dancing right now!)
