Bloc Party started with such a promising career. Their debut album, Silent Alarm, rates as one of my favourite debut albums ever. Next came A Weekend in the City, which was so-so. Intimacy was more of the same – the...
While in Toronto for the U2 documentary at TIFF, Bono released some interesting information: There will be a cover album of 1991’s classic U2 album, Achtung Baby. Via Rolling Stone: “The album was commissioned by the British music magazine Q....
The excellently named new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto, has a tracklisting ahead of it’s release date. It goes a little something like this: Mylo Xyloto Hurts Like Heaven Paradise Charlie Brown Us Against the World M.M.I.X. Every Teardrop is a...
Don’t let the headline mislead you. I’m not alluding to the fact that a She & Him album being released is akin to receiving a Christmas present (although this may be true for many fans). What the headline means is...
Jamie XX Does Radiohead Remix Another gem from Jamie XX – dropped on BBC1’s Essential Mix over the weekend. Jamie finished his excellent 2 hr set with a debut of his remix Radiohead’s Bloom. This track will apparently be released...
This November, you will be able to feast your ears (is that possible?!) on the second Florence and the Machine album. The album, which has no name, is out November 7 in the UK and later in the month in...
Pearl Jam fans have quite a year in store for them. 20th anniversary shows, special editions, and the Cameron Crowe documentary. Disc 1 includes live tracks which will make up the actual movie soundtrack, while Disc 2 features rarities and...
I think I might have been a little cooler in high school had I worked at the Audio, Video, Disco department. Sadly, it did not exist – until now! French dance duo, Justice, have announced the tracklisting and release date...
Last month, PHM provided a video and album release info for Aussie band The Jezabels. It turns out the robot writing the posts at PHM even makes mistakes (despite the guarantee!). The September 16th release date for Prisoner is Australia...
Lovable rockers Coldplay announced today that their fifth album, Mylo Xyloto (pronounced my-lo zy-letoe), will be released in North American on Oct. 25 (via Billboard). “Mylo Xyloto will be released in digital, CD and vinyl formats. The 180-gram vinyl edition...
After a day of rumours being posted on the internet (which PHM is too classy to partake in…..), Radiohead have confirmed the details of an album of remixes from the King of Limbs (via Gigwise). The vinyls of several singles...
The Field (real name Axel Willner) is an electronica/techno artist from Sweden. Aren’t they all? The Field have released two very solid albums to date, and have announced the release date of a third, hopefully equally solid, album. The album...
Back in 2009, Neon Indian dropped the critically acclaimed album, Psychic Chasms. The Texas quartet are back, with a new album coming out on October 10. The album is called Era Extraña and will hopefully be as spacey and funky...
Mastodon have announced a new album and the accompanying tracklisting, so that you can make up the sounds that you think will match the song titles. The album will be released September 27, and one format of the Mastodon release...
Looks like Sesame Street counting guest star Feist is back with a new album. Stereogum reports that it will be called Metals, and it will feature only heavy rock anthems. Okay, that last part is not true…or is it?! Metals...
