Darling of the
week:
Phoenix.
'Cause the new album is the best thing that could possibly come out of France. The title itself earns credits for creativity.
June 25:
Ever wanted to remix Placebo? Here's your official chance to: go to theirspace and klick the GoMix-Widget. You can save your finished works and have oll the others listen to it.
June 15:
Finally updated some gossip in the music news: a dizzing Trent Reznor, nothing so new from Peter Doherty, an over-ambitious Jack White, the sunshine in the cigarette-smoke-grey model business Beth Ditto and thoughts about (caution: wordplay) finally smashing the Pumpkins.
May 28:
Listen to Placebo's new album "Battle for the Sun" (only May 29 tillMay 31), all you have to do is sign up at Placebo's homepage and you will get a code with which you can play the album from start to finish
5 times.
May 25:
Friends, there's a White Rabbit around, download Ash's new single for free here:
And you can pre-order the limited vinyl single
here.
Hot stuff!
May 22:
Interactive music video - a new way of
promoting new material or really involving fans creativly? Well, figure it out
yourself.
"I've seen enough" from the Cold War Kids is online, with every band
member filmed separately doing their parts, and now you can klick them on or off
during the song as much as you like. If it's neither promotion nor
fan-involvement, at least it's fun seeing the guys bore their minds out when
they are klicked out of the game! ;-)
May 18:
I like this title: "Abnormally Attracted To Sin".
It's the name of Tori Amos' 10th album and it's out since May 15. You can have a listen
here and
pre-order a special edition + bonus DVD. And even more special: until May 24 you
can watch a video of Tori playing an exclusive
FM4 radiosession at the
Radiokulturhaus in Vienna!
The woman looks like a fragile red haired elfin from Middle Earth, I can't stop looking
at her...
May 5:
Here is a stream of Green Day's new album "21st Century Breakdown", and there are more new songs from Maximo Park on their myspace!
April 5:
The Storm will perform at Summer Breeze Festival this year. Check out the rest of the line-up here!
March 31:
IAMX will tour the UK soon, don't miss it!
March 18:
Download Placebo's new song "Battle For The Sun" for free!
February 23:
News from the Kings of Leon, IAMX, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pete Doherty!
February 20:
Festivalnews!
Here is an overview of the most important German and Austrian festivals this
year.
| Festival | Bands | Information and Tickets |
| Frequency | Mando Diao Farin Urlaub Racing Team Rise Against Culcha Candela The (International) Noise Conspiracy Enter Shikari The Subways The Sounds Mono & Nikitaman Kettcar Volbeat Dúné |
Important: Frequency is moving out of Salzburg to St.Pölten in Lower Austria. Meaning, another festival in the east and the only big festival left in the west region around Munich gone. (Looks like that rules it out for us. Hasta La Vista!) Early bird tickets available for 102€ Date: August 20 - 22, Salzburgring, Austria |
| Rock am Ring | Placebo Bloc Party The Killers Juliette Lewis Kettcar Billy Talent Korn Limp Bizkit Mando Diao Marilyn Manson Polarkreis 18 Slipknot The Gaslight Anthem The Kooks The Prodigy |
http://www.rock-am-ring.com/main.html Early bird ticket sale has already expired, price per ticket is now 135€ Date: June 5 - 7, Nürburgring |
| Rock im Park | see sister festival Rock am Ring above |
Early bird ticket sale has already expired, price per ticket is now 135€ Special Centerstage Camping tickets are available for an extra of 25€. Includes: camping next to the main stage, free access to showers and toilets. Date: June 5 - 7, Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg |
| Highfield | Maximo Park Get Well Soon The Wombats Arctic Monkeys Die Toten Hosen Clueso Farin Urlaub Racing Team Panteón Rococó |
http://www.fkpscorpio.com/highfield/ Ticket price is 99€ (including fees) Date: August 21 - 23, Erfurt, Germany |
| Area4 | Callejon Die Toten Hosen Farin Urlaub Racing Team Panteón Rococó |
http://www.fkpscorpio.com/area4/ Ticket price is 89€ (including fees) Date: August 21 - 23, Lüdinghausen, Germany |
| Southside |
Kings Of Leon Franz Ferdinand Die Ärzte Ben Harper and Relentless7 Get Well Soon Gogol Bordello Blood Red Shoes The Wombats Tomte Johnossi Clueso Culcha Candela Disturbed Fettes Brot The Sounds Katy Perry |
Early bird ticket sale has already expired, tickets are available for 115€ (including fees) Date: June 19 -21, Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany |
| Hurricane | see sister festival Southside above |
Early bird ticket sale has already expired, tickets are available for 115€ (including fees) Date: June 19 -21, Scheeßel, Germany
|
February 20:
Pre-listen to Morrissey's new album here
January 23:
Interviewers are pains in the ass, let's interview ourselves! Franz Ferdinand EPK
January 22:
We've been listening into the White Lies recently.
January 12:
Come on, let's get high! Here is the video to Franz Ferdinand's new single "Ulysses"!
And here is Death Cab's cover Version of Tom Petty's "Free Fallin" as free download.
We also (finally) have updated new release dates of records we recommend in the fresh market.
December 29:
The whole list of plus and minus in 2008 you can find in the Exit 2008 list.
December 20:
Another Christmas-Special this year comes from the Ravonettes. You can download "Come on Santa" from the Vicerecords homepage.
December 18:
This year is ending and we finally finished this years gig list. IAMX were a worthy completion of the high-ranking line-up we had this year! There is a lot to look back on and we're working on a final list of favourite moments we've had. So long!
November 26:
New german review of Death Cab For Cutie online.
November 19:
Review of yesterday's Okkervil River gig online (German version)
November 17:
It's official: Franz Ferdinand announced the release dates for their first single "Ulysses" (16.1.) and the new album (23.1.)!
Are you into unconventional Christmas Carols? Then you should listen to Pelle Almqvist and Cindy Lauper's duet "A Christmas Duel", available for download from November 28!
November 7:
The new IAMX single is available for free download: Go, get it, now!
November 4:
Needless Liam Gallagher quotes nobody needs. (Really, this guy talks crap!)
October 15:
I'm very sorry to say, but I find that whole Oasis-Tralala the last few weeks so very annoying...I really lost interest in listening into the new album. It's always the same...grumpy beardy guys pissing off other bands and finding themselves so god-like...I get scabious eruptions only thinking of it. I want Blur back!
What makes me a little more happy is the announcement that Lord Dave gets a street named after him today! Some clever people (radio DJ Fast Freddie and local police officer Joe O'Grady) have made the persons in charge of Warren, Ohio, rename Market Alley into 'Dave Grohl Alley'.
October 8:
Foo Fighters news
October 4:
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night review online.
October 1:
Go see music news, now!
September 16:
Yay! Sometimes, like Chris Corner said, life is good! Death Cab For Cutie are coming to my place and I finally get to see them. Isn't that beautiful? More dates in the calendar.
September 13:
Gallery with photos from the 1977 gig at the Astoria is online!