Morning Music Notes – Too Kool for School
In the height of my illness, English band Elbow dropped a video for a lovely new song called My Sad Captains. As I slowly clear out my bookmarks and return to solid foods, you might even get a post about...
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Morning Music Notes – Tyler, the Riot Creator
Toronto’s Holy Fuck are back. Their first new song in four years comes in the form of a B-side to a 7-inch record that’s being released as part of an Australian tour. But you don’t need the back story. The...
Morning Music Notes – Tupac: The Musical
More stuff from the youngin’ from the UK known as King Krule. You’ve seen videos from the 19 year old, such as Easy Easy, Octopus, and Rock Bottom. His latest cut from 6 Feet Beneath the Moon is A Lizard...
Morning Music Notes – Can Drake Be the Mascot, Too?
Some new stuff from California duo Best Coast. Two guesses which coast they think is the best? Following up recent release Fade Away is the video for a track off of Fade Away called I Don’t Know How, the opposite...
Morning Music Notes – Hip Hop Tue$day
Check out Bon Iver and Radiohead on Austin City Limits Both Radiohead and Bon Iver stopped by Austin City Limits earlier this year to tape a segment for the legendary show. A behind the scenes of Radiohead’s Lotus Flower was...
SURPRISE! Olympics Were Popular on YouTube; Helped Artists’ Music Sales
Who knew that a bunch of ridiculous sports such as running and jumping with different legs three times, dancing horses, or throwing a pole would be SO popular? YouTube has released some numbers of its streaming partnership with NBC in...
Morning Music Notes – Olympic Rejection
iTunes Festival Adds Hot Chip, Elbow, Bat for Lashes Joining Noel Gallagher, Jack White, and Mumford & Sons for the month-long September iTunes Festival in London are Hot Chip, Elbow, and Bat for Lashes (via NME). And who says iTunes...
Morning Music Notes – The Jessie J Olympics
Closing Ceremonies Were What Brits Feared Opening Ceremonies Would Be I’ll admit – the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies were pretty good, especially considering they had to follow up Beijing’s insane opener. Danny Boyle did a good job of mixing...
Morning Music Notes – The Brit (Awards) Are Coming!
Facebook Joins the Listening Party Bandwagon; Will Hit 1 Billion Users Similar to the popular Turntable.fm, Facebook users can now simultaneously listen to music and have a group chat session (via Hypebot). The new feature is called Listen With, and...
Morning Music News – Third Eye Not Blind Forever
Get Ready to Be Elbow’ed to Death During the Summer Olympics For those of you in Canada, you were surely sick of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic theme song on CTV by the end of the 2 weeks. You know the...
Morning Music Notes – Kayne West is a Muppet
Doves + Elbow = Elves? 2 great British bands, both from the Manchester area, are teaming up. The lead singer of Doves, Jimi Goodwin, is coming out with a solo album, and teaming with Elbow’s Guy Garvey (via NME). Goodwin...
Mercury Prize 2011 Shortlist Revealed
The Mercury Prize is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It started in 1992 and features past winners including Portishead – Dummy (1995), Pulp – Different Class (1996), Badly Drawn Boy...
Elbow Wants to Build a Beer, Boys
Mercury-award winning Brit band Elbow have a novel idea that every band should follow. Gigwise has info that Elbow are releasing a limited edition “Build a Rocket Boys” beer, named after their most recent album. Like any band that one...
