Ben Kweller Go Fly A Kite The Noise Company [2012] Fire Note Says: Ben Kweller returns with his solid and catchy fifth album Go Fly A Kite . Album Review: What I thoroughly enjoy about the new record from Ben Kweller is that right out of the gate on first track "Mean To Me", Kweller basically states that if you don't like him you can go away and it doesn't matter because he is going to do what he does best - catchy singer/songwriter power pop. Go Fly A Kite is a full return to creating the upbeat pop ...

When beloved Minnesota power-poppers Sing It Loud fractured in 2010 under the weight of creative differences, most fans kept their eyes out for lead singer Pat Brown’s next move. Meanwhile, guitarist Kieren Smith, an equal creative force in that project, seems to have quickly slipped off the radar. Now, following a brief dalliance with solo acoustic recording and a move to New York City, Smith has put together another band, Little Bombs, with Take Cover drummer Derek Johnson, and it’s clear from their self-titled debut that the time out of the spotlight was trying. Smith has always evinced ...

New Music this Week ! Dreams Can Come True Twin Berlin - Can't Take, Take, Take NORTHEAST ROCKERS MAKE GOOD - This is really a story about an album, but even more so about a band that's found it's way through the various stages of indie music, electro-pop, synth to determine they wanted to play: good old-fashioned underground rock. While recording new material in the studio this year, Mikey Welsh , formerly of the band Weezer, stepped in to create the cover art. But, before the recordings could even be finished, Travis Barker of Blink-182 became involved and selected Twin Berlin ...

Our indie professor is so indie she signed up for a holiday on a boat with Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh and Weezer. And she's such a professor, she wrote an end-of-term report about it ... One of the things I love about a destination festival is that it takes you away from your everyday life. And a music cruise takes the destination festival to a whole new level. When I grew up, it seemed that a cruise was something you did when you retired. The sort of trip you went on when you were afraid to fly or when you'd ...

Filed under: News , RPM Getty Images Steve Aoki fans rejoice! We've got some Steve Aoki SOL REPUBLIC Tracks headphones to giveaway. Why not score yourself a free pair? The DJ is currently on the road with his record label Dim Mak's biggest tour ever, DEADMEAT Tour 2012 but if you don't happen to catch the show, throw yourself your own personal dance party with his new album ' Wonderland .' The album features remixes from Autoerotique, Angger Dimas and Trash">Tommy Trash and surprising cameos from Weezer 's Rivers Cuomo , Blink-182 's Travis Barker , CSS ' Lovefoxxx and more. It ...

Die dänische Experimental-Pop-Band Alcoholic Faith Mission meldet sich Ende des Monats mit einem Album zurück. Am 24. Februar soll der vierte Langspieler "Ask Me This" via Pony Rec/Rough Trade in die Plattenläden eures Vertrauens gelangen. Die Platte wurde gemeinsam mit Tom McFall eingespielt, der bereits Indie-Größen wie R.E.M. und Weezer produzierte. Hier könnt ihr bereits vorab bereits in das Video zu "Into Pieces" sehen, bei dem die Skandinavier ihren gewohnten Sound spielen, der die motor.de-Redaktion schon einmal mit sakralen Synthies und Gesangsflächen bezauberte . Außerdem könnt ihr euch hier das Albumcover sowie das Video zum ersten Song ...

Wooo! Only 6 more weeks of winter! Did winter ever start this year? We had that big snow storm before Halloween that left me powerless for a week, but since then… I’ve been waiting to get snowed in! No such luck. Either way, enjoy this throwback from Steve Burns. Better known as… uhm, the guy below. I guess when he left Blues Clues he put out two albums, one in 2003 and one in 2009. He worked with Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips and was produced by Dave Fridmann (Thursday, Weezer, Tapes ‘n Tapes). Not bad at all!

Happy 43rd birthday to *Weezer* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/weezer)'s drummer, Pat Wilson (https://twitter.com/#%21/Weezer/status/164601232143564800). Submitted by WhoSaidThat?

Weezer Live in Del Mar, California There’s nothing worse than a live album that just focuses on singles and refuses to touch [...]

I started collecting vinyl in January of 2008.  Here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2012) AC/DC Back in Black American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha Band of Horses Everything All the Time Infinite Arms Battles Gloss Drop Mirrored The Beach Boys Endless Summer The Beatles 1962-1966 1967-1970 Abbey Road Hey Jude Let it Be Magical Mystery Tour Rubber Soul Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Beck Modern Guilt Odelay The Bee Gees Best of Bee Gees Vol. 1 [pre-disco] Saturday Night Fever Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five Blackalicious A2G [EP] Blazing Arrow The ...

Much as Walter Benjamins' seminal Marxist text explored the radical changes that were being exerted on the value of creative practice in the advent of mechanical reproduction, developments in technology in our time can undeniably be seen to imply similar paradigm- shifts with our own relationship to art, music and film. When last week, the FBI and other legal bodies coordinated a global policing effect to shut down MegaUpload and enacted the arrest of its bizarre proprietor Kim Dotcom, the reason was read out as being simple and straightforward enough to accept uncritically: Despite high profile endorsements from the likes ...

The next Playlist in our ongoing series features our friends in Mixtapes, Sword Records">Mightier Than Sword Records, and Kind Of Like Records. We’re big fans of the band and both labels at PropertyOfZack, so we thought it’d be great to match them together. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) Polar Bear Club - Pawner Make Do And Mend - Winter Wasteland *Song is currently not on Spotify Lemuria - Pants Broadway Calls - Save Our Ship Tigers Jaw - I Saw Water The Menzingers - My Friend Chris ...

Ever hear this one? Three guys walk into fluorescent purple disco bar. The Antlers’ Peter Silberman takes a look round, surveying the wreckage and girls in cute outfits. Rivers Cuomo from Weezer stands in an oversized white US Navy uniform and hat looking down at a liquor-covered dance floor. Pic: Mikala Taylor/backstagerider.com [...] Read more!

A truly unique and rather amazing adventure on the high seas.

Aunque su periodo de actividad se extendió a tan solo diez años, en 2012 Talk Talk celebraría su treina aniversario. Su influencia en el mundo del synth pop es tan grande que varios artistas han decidido unir fuerzas para crear un disco tributo a esta banda inglesa. Se llamará Spirit Of Talk Talk y se publicará el próximo 28 de mayo a través del sello inglés Fierce Panda. Todavía no se ha dado a conocer un listado de canciones definitivo, aunque sí sabemos que, por ejemplo, Richard Reed Parry de...