Morning Music Notes – The Morning After
After jetting to Brooklyn to watch Atoms for Peace, driving to Ottawa for a wedding, and driving to Toronto to watch the Breaking Bad finale, all I want to do is sleep for 16 hours. But I’ll give you some...
After jetting to Brooklyn to watch Atoms for Peace, driving to Ottawa for a wedding, and driving to Toronto to watch the Breaking Bad finale, all I want to do is sleep for 16 hours. But I’ll give you some...
Portugal. The Man turned to “the man” aka Danger Mouse to produce their most recent record. Tracks like Purple Yellow Red and Blue and Atomic Man have been quite strong, showing that Danger Mouse often brings out the best in...
Foo Fighters to Make Unconventional Record Foo Fighters ended their “long break” after only a few months, and are starting on a new album. How will that album sound? Apparently quite different than what we’re used to. Talking to Billboard,...
The twin August Bank Holiday weekend festival that is UK’s Leeds and Reading Festivals have announced their line up for August 23-25. The headliners are Green Day (Friday Reading / Saturday Leeds), Eminem (Saturday Reading / Sunday Leeds) and Biffy...
This is 40 is the latest life/romance crisis comedy from Judd Apatow, who has nailed (and repeated) the formula of somewhat dirty comedy mixed with relatable dysfunctional relationship issues. The movie stars Paul Rudd as a man who turns 40...
New Jimi Hendrix Out Due in March Zombie Jimi Hendrix will release a posthumous album on March 5. His estate is milking his musical legacy by releasing tracks that were recorded between 1968 and 1969 (via Spinner). Now seems like...
Green Day have released ¡Uno!, and ¡Dos! follows next week, with ¡Tré! out in December (moved up from January). That’s a lot of Green Day and a lot of tracks. There have been a few duds, as expected, and a...
Hurricane Sandy is No Damn Fun Hurricane Sandy has descended on the east coast of America, causing rain and wind through northeastern USA and parts of Canada. Due to the crazy winds and because it’s rainin’ sideways, several shows have...
Craig Nicholls from the Vines Arrested for Assaulting His Parents Everyone wants to beat up their parents, right? JUST KIDDING DAD! Singer Craig Nicholls from the Vines unfortunately lived out this fantasy, and has been charged with five offences, such...
British Bands Are Number 1 and 2 in America For the first time since May 1992, British bands occupy the number 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard 200 (via Hollywood Reporter). Muse might have hit number 1 in the...
Stream the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor Album There’s a moral grey area when it comes to embedding album streams onto a site. Websites claim they have the ‘exclusive’ first listen, and I don’t actually know whether they pay the...
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Melts Down on Stage, Enters Rehab Shortly After When I first saw Green Day back in 1997 or 1998, it was an awesome show. It ended with the band smashing their instruments and setting fire...
Green Day are prepping not uno, not dos, but tres (well, ¡Tré!, actually) new albums for this fall and early next year. Songs have slowly been released or leaked, such as Kill the DJ, Let Yourself Go, and Oh Love....
When Green Day played their surprise but not really a surprise set at the Reading Festival at the end of August in England, they played a new tune called Stay the Night, which is the Green Day that us here...
It’s the end of summer – not officially, but post-Labour Day in Canada is the unofficial end. While this may be bad news, the fall has a shitload of potentially awesome albums to be released upon our ears. Not really...