Ha pasado ya un tiempo desde que escuchamos algo de James Iha. La última vez que supimos del ex-Smashing Pumpkins fue con el lanzamiento del álbum debut de Tinted Windows, banda en la que colaboró con uno de los Hanson y con la que realmente no pasó mucho. Después tuvimos algunas colaboraciones como las que hizo con Isobel Campbell y Mark Lanegan para su álbum del 2010, pero hasta ahí. Sin embargo, este 2012 finalmente nos trae noticias del músico en solitario, pues ya tenemos el anuncio del lanzamiento de...

"Blacktop Lane" is the second track from the upcoming Lonelifter EP by Los Angeles producer EEZIR , which will serve as the debut release for both the producer and Futra, a new label based in LA. The track is defined by a lone, aggressive acid line, but is kissed with the shuffle and atmospherics associated with SoCal's current electronic-music scene. Hanson's house-leaning and acidic take on bass music brings to mind the productions of an artist like Blawan, but is perhaps a little less restless than the Brit's work. Check out the tracklist for the Lonelifter EP (which ...

"Maybe it's just my wounded pride" So, Sweden's Melodifestivalen is back for another year and the first heat was extremely underwhelming (though, the more I hear Loreen's winning song, the more I think it could be the ultimate winner. It's really excellent). This Saturday should be more interesting, and Ulrik Munther is one of the reasons. I wrote about Munther ages ago, back when he was still a young hopeful. Now he's a big hit in Sweden. In fact, his first album shot straight to number one. In some ways, it would be easy to ...

Let me take you back to 1997, when Monica Lewinsky was just an innocent White House intern and Harry Potter had just begun his life at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  You may also remember that this was the year when three brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma took over the pop charts with their international [...]

Announcement from Lifeforce Records: "We are proud an honored to announce with the signing of German prog-rockers Pigeon Toe one of the most interesting new German bands! The idea of founding a new project besides their bands Fear My Thoughts, Backslide and Mongouse, already existed in the minds of the two brothers Marsn and Hanson since 2008. After the split of Mongouse they put even more focus on it and chose Pigeon Toe as a working title."

Here’s 3 unrelated items, all combined into 1 post… 1. Taylor Hanson has been tour blogging for the Huffington Post…read “Five Countries on Three Continents in 48 Hours” part 1 and part 2. 2. Uh Huh Her played a stripped-down … Continue reading →

Peaking Lights got a lot of love in the recent end of year polls, I'm not quite sure why to be honest with you; 'All the sun that shines, shine for you' is hardly the most inspired of lyrics in this day and age.. Anyway, they recently put out a remix EP and enlisted the chaps from 100% Silk to give their tracks a spot of cut and pasting; Ital, Cuticle and Innergaze all turn in excellent reworks, it's the latters who we feature here. Slow mo acid haus. Get the EP at Boomkat . Peaking Lights- Shines for ...

Thanks to the genius that is “random” on my iTunes playlist, I rediscovered W-H-I-T-E’s “Twin Tigers” this morning. Ethereal and expansive = my two favorite “e” words… I’ll be playing this one at least once a day for the foreseeable future. W-H-I-T-E is Cory Thomas Hanson, and this is his sophomore album from last March… [...]

Ahead the January 12 series premiere of The Finder, Fox released a new series of behind-the-scenes photos with singer and guest star John Fogerty. In the new preview photos from the set of The Finder, the new Bones spin-off from creator Hart Hanson, singer John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival read more

It is always refreshing to see young musicians playing instruments and writing their own songs. Southern California’s The Christopher Brothers can easily be compared to Hanson or The Jonas Brothers, but there is something different about these three shaggy haired siblings.  15-year-old Cameron (drums), 13-year-old Charles (lead guitars), and 10-year-old Ethan (bass) each began playing a variety of instruments at a young age and finally started playing as a trio in 2008. Beyond playing various covers by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Santana, and Green Day, The Christopher Brothers also perform several original tracks. Their first EP,   Meet The ...

Just received this video from our buddy Benjamin Brewer that his friend Greg Hanson put together (wrote and directed the clip). The track is entitled ‘Dumb Dumbs’ and [...] READ MORE ⇒

Aaron Dilloway Modern Jester [Hanson; 2012] by Stefan Wharton Rating: According to French economist Jacques Attali, noise is a manifestation of violence. That is, he writes, because “it disturbs. To make noise is to interrupt a transmission, to disconnect, to kill.” Noise, however, is a term enveloped in multiple interpretations and increasingly a subject of discussion, both within circles of active participators and outside them. Two definitions of the term prevail: the first, as Paul Hegarty recognizes, by way of “a negative reaction, and then, a negative response to a sound or set of sounds;” the second, as a genre-term ...

While you slowly wake up out of your post-holiday food/family comas in time to prepare for whatever New Year's Eve debauchery you have on the agenda, here's an indispensable Hanson Records "promo" video circa 1997 uploaded straight from the label's...

I've always loved detectives stories and ’50s movies; quirky stuff like Sunset Boulevard, which my wife and I always sit down and watch. LA Confidential is the film that got me into film noir, but recently I was talking with Mark Kermode (the BBC’s Film Review host) and I was saying, ‘I absolutely love film noir. What do you think about the new take on it, with Curtis Hanson’s LA Confidential?’ He was like, ‘Mmm, don’t really like that’. We went and saw Drive; it’s fucking nuts. Charlotte hated the soundtrack, but I loved it ...

45. Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight Olly really came into his own this year with a pair of great singles. This could have been a cheesy novelty track but somehow it just worked. 44. Stan">Alexandra Stan - Mr. Saxobeat Now this is a cheesy novelty track. And, more than that, it's the best cheesy novelty track of the year. 43. Lady Gaga - You And I A rootsy sidestep for Gaga. The Mutt Lange production and weirdo-awesome video totally made it. 42. Sanna Nielsen - I'm In Love One of this year's Melodifestivalen highlights, it pretty much defines ...