Wilco Plan Spring ‘09 Release For More-Sculpted New Album

Wilco are eyeing a Spring 2009 release for their next album, Jeff Tweedy told an Albany, New York radio station. Whereas their last album Sky Blue Sky was recorded under almost jam-session circumstances, Tweedy says the band will “allow ourselves a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound in the studio and doing overdubs and using the studio as another instrument. Last time around, it was more of a document.” Wilco are already performing a pair of new songs live: “One Wing,” which is reportedly reminiscent of Sky Blue closer “On and On and On,” and the looser, riff-driven “Sunny Feeling.” While Tweedy said following the release of Sky Blue Sky that those studio sessions resulted in a number of unfinished songs, it’s unclear whether those tunes will be the basis for the band’s seventh album.

Published: 2008-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Join With Us by The Feeling

The sophomore album for the Sussex, England pop rock band. [Rock, Pop]

Published: 2008-04-01 Provider: Metacritic

QOTSA bassist in step with band

It's been a year since bassist Michael Shuman was brought into the modern Stone Age family, and he's feeling right at home.

Published: 2008-05-01 Provider: Canoe

Concert Review - Explosions In The Sky - Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA

When a friend calls and says, "There's a great instrumental band playing this weekend," it can be off-putting. Especially when you love lyrics so damn much. But, in the case of the Austin, Texas foursome Explosions In The Sky, that feeling was unfounded.[...] Read more!

Published: 2008-04-21 Provider: StarPulse

Boston Guitarist Says Mike Huckabee Ripped Him Off With 'Feeling'

Boston guitarist Tom Scholz sent a letter to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asking him to stop using "More Than a Feeling" in his campaign.

Published: 2008-02-15 Provider: VH1 Keywords: Artist, Boston, Album, VH1, X2, Anonymous, Ringtones, Virtually, Feeling, Movies, Singer, Icons, Radio, Band, Brad, Delp, Died, Hair, More, News, Rock, Than, 70s, A-Z, For, on, TV, A,

Boston's Tom Scholz is as pissed as the Coug, ... [Boston]

Boston's Tom Scholz is as pissed as the Coug, thanks to GOP prez candidate Mike Huckabee using the band's "More Than A Feeling" as a campaign song. Huckabee has yet to back down like John McCain did...

Published: 2008-02-15 Provider: Idolator Keywords: Boston,Mike Huckabee,tom scholz

The Things They Say 4069

"When you're in a band like this, there's this persistent feeling of being torn apart by external forces, that you're always surrounded by wolves wait

Published: 2007-02-16 Provider: Contact Music

"For Emma, Forever Ago" by Bon Iver

The story behind Bon Iver's debut release, For Emma, Forever Ago, reads like the plot teaser on the back of a novel. After breaking up with his band and girlfriend, Justin Vernon, formerly of DeYarmond Edison, withdraws from society to a remote cabin in Wisconsin, returning three months later with a collection of nine ethereal, folk-based tracks that would become 2007's most overlooked independent release. Whether by design or simply a matter of the recording's provenance, every facet of For Emma exudes a feeling of isolation. Throughout the record, Vernon's lamenting falsetto—which carves out an inimitable timbre between blues and neo-soul—seems to echo from a desolate room in the form of stunningly emotive melodies, accompanied by only his acoustic guitar and sparse drums. This aesthetic creates a tension between forlorn despair and inspired beauty that engulfs the listener from the album's opening line, "I am my mother's only son / it's enough," which, as it is being sung,

Published: 2008-02-26 Provider: Artist Direct

Atonement for Your Illegal Downloading Sins: $5

Feeling bad because you just downloaded the entire Prince catalog in less than fifteen minutes? Disappointed at yourself for not paying anything for Radiohead’s In Rainbows? Let Dear Rockers help you make amends (or at minimum clear your conscience). In the tradition of anonymous whisper site PostSecret, Dear Rockers asks Soulseekers and Bit Torrenteers to write an artful letter of apology to artists whose music they may have downloaded illegally. The result is an amusing Web site that posts the letters fans write to bands like Wolf Parade and Whitney Houston asking for forgiveness. The price of atonement: $5, sent to the band’s management or official fan club (Dear Rockers provides all the addresses). Props go to the girl who sent Axl Rose five bucks in change. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, your check is in the mail. Related Stories: Alternate Takes: Just $9,250 a Song! Jury Finds Minnesota Woman Guilty of Using P2P Program, Must Pay Richard Marx $9,250 Angry Mother Accuses RIAA Of Espionage, Intimidation And Stalking

Published: 2007-12-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

"Summer Above" by Speck Mountain

It's rare that a debut album is as patiently textured and consistently affecting as Speck Mountain's Summer Above. If this record belongs to any genre it's space-rock, but as the band's name would suggest, earthiness is being channeled as much as ether, with an instrumental palette that's haunted by classic soul vibes rather than compressed waves of distortion. Opalescent streams of organ and electric piano, minimal but highly melodic guitar, sax and melodica are fed through vintage amps and echo units, making it easy to imagine it was all recorded in the "Pacific sea caves" that singer Marie-Claire Balabanian alludes to in the album's rhythmically tranced centerpiece "Girl Out West." Songs build slowly, coalescing around Balabanian's slightly dazed vocals and offering an unexpected depth. The buoyant title track leads things off, seeming like the perfect, naive summer anthem until you get to the enigmatic lyric, "I feel free when I feel no one feeling me". "Hey Moon"

Published: 2007-11-09 Provider: Artist Direct

"We Are the Pipettes" by The Pipettes

The Pipettes' debut album, We Are the Pipettes, was originally released in the United Kingdom back in the middle of 2006, resulting in a tidal wave of hype that carried over to American shores. The band, known for its stylish update of classic girl-group pop and its trio of adorable singers in polka dot frocks, garnered copious internet buzz, and the record became a hot item in import bins. It's tempting to suggest that a proper release of the album has come far too late in the United States, and that the Pipettes' momentum is already on the wane, but that assumption would have to be based on the insulting notion that the group's appeal is strictly limited to net-savvy hipsters. Not so! Every track on We Are the Pipettes gleams and sparkles with crisp string arrangements, groovy beats, slick harmonies and meticulously crafted melodies that appreciate with each listen, leaving tracks like "Pull Shapes," "ABC," and "One Night Stand" feeling like familiar

Published: 2007-10-01 Provider: Artist Direct

Metallica’s New Album: “Ridiculous,” “Sick,” “Bitchin’” Says Matt Sorum

Metallica are hard at work on their next album with producer Rick Rubin, and at least one person outside the band has heard the songs: Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. We’ll let him take it from here: “Lars is a good friend of mine. He played me the demos from San Francisco, and I turned and looked at him and I said, ‘Master that shit and put it out.’ It’s ridiculous. The demos were sick. Eight-minute songs, all these tempo changes, crazy fast. It’s like, ‘Dude, don’t get slower when you get older, but don’t get faster!? How are you gonna play this live?’ And then me and Lars were out partying all night, and he had to go in the studio the next day and do this stupid like nine or ten minute song, and I was laughing at him — because he played me the demo of it, and it was [sings really fast drum part], so fast. I called him, and said, ‘Dude, how are you feeling?’ He was like, ‘Dude, I’m hurting.’ They’re cutting everything to tape, no fuckin’ Pro Tools — live, no clicks. Bitchin’. I dig it. I’m really excited for them.” Photo: AFP/Moilanen/Getty

Published: 2007-07-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News