Music Set

So there’s a new Weezer single from The Red Album on iTunes right now. Yes, another one. It’s called "Dreamin’", and it joins "Pork and Beans", "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)", and "Troublemaker" as Red Album jams out there for the listening in advance of the album’s release. It features the lines, "I’m dreamin’ in the morning / I’m dreamin’ all through the night / And when I’m dreamin’ I know that it’s all right." Weezer the third is due in the U.S.
» Read the full Hey Look, Yet Another Weezer Single on iTunes article…

One in a while, you come across a musician who so effectively cobbles together a wide range of styles so effortlessly you swear you’ve heard it somewhere before…but you can’t quite put a finger on it. New York City born and bred troubadour K.J. Denhert is one of those musicians. Everyone looks for reference points when presented with an unfamiliar artist; for Denhert, she is a lot like Bonnie Raitt with a little less blues and a little more jazz. Or Lizz Wright with a little less gospel and a little more rock.
» Read the full Music Review: K.J. Denhert - Lucky 7 article…

Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and John Mayer have taken to their respective blogs to tell each other how they respect each other. It started yesterday in a post titled “yes its a crush,” where the FOB posted a video of Mayer and prefaced the clip with “what he says in the first thirty seconds of this clip is something i have felt for the last year. exactly.” Mayer, an omniscient force when it comes to things on the Internet, responded swiftly from Hong Kong, saying, “You’re one of the best eggs in the music industry, hands down.
» Read the full Rock Bloggin’: John Mayer and Pete Wentz Engage in Internet Bromance article…

Judith Owen is the sort of artist that makes you want to throw labels out the window. So what if she’s generally listed under jazz? There’s nothing on her albums that wouldn’t play well on an intelligent FM rock station — that is, if you can find one these days. I suppose the jazz tag has stuck to Owen because of her extraordinary vocal purity and technique. Her natural gift is a voice like watered silk, full of coloratura glints and shadows, but she brings in shrewdly intelligent phrasing and a gutsy rhythmic sense that work equally well as alt-rock.
» Read the full Music Review: Judith Owen - Mopping Up Karma article…

The best word to describe Rachael Sage's sound is theatrical, and her newest album Chandelier is truly theatre for your ears. Lyrically each song is an act from the stage play of Sage's life; musically each is a mini musical in scope, breadth and drama. As a former performer with the New York City Ballet, Sage's flare for the dramatic is understandable, but while you may expect a prima ballerina to be a drama queen she is far from it.
» Read the full Interview: Band of the Week - Rachael Sage article…

Let the Acceleration begin. R.E.M.’s mammoth world tour, with support in North America from formidable acts Modest Mouse and the National, begins tonight (May 23) in Vancouver. The R.E.M. train departs North America for Europe in July, at which point the band has two months of shows with the likes of Guillemots, the Duke Spirit, Elbow, and Editors. Not to be upstaged by their elder brethren, Modest Mouse and the National have a considerable number of headlining and festival dates throughout the summer as well.
» Read the full R.E.M./Modest Mouse/National Tour: Engage! article…

Pete Doherty played a 23-song solo ‘request’ set last night (May 26) at the Brixton Mass club in south London. The singer performed a mix of songs by his current band Babyshambles, his former group The Libertines and several unreleased solo efforts. Taking the stage at around 9:40pm (BST), Doherty played with just an electric guitar and microphone, and was joined later in the set by his Babyshambles bandmate Mick Whitnall and then by singer Dot Allison.
» Read the full Pete Doherty plays London club show article…

Crystal Castles have announced details of a UK tour. Having headlined the recent Topman NME New Noise Tour, the duo will hit the road for their own dates in September. They play: Newcastle Academy (September 2) Sheffield Leadmill (3) Leeds Cockpit (4) Coventry Kasbah (7) Nottingham Rescue Rooms (9) Bristol Thekla (10) Birmingham Academy 2 (12) Manchester Academy 2 (13) Preston 53 Degress (14) Brighton Concorde (16) Cambridge Junction (17) London Electric Ballroom (18) Tickets are on sale at 9am on Friday (May 30).
» Read the full Crystal Castles announce UK tour article…

Sigur Ros have announced details of their next album. The band have confirmed on Sigurros.com that their fifth record will be called ‘MeГ° SuГ° Г­ Eyrum ViГ° Spilum Endalaust’. The record will be released worldwide on June 23. The tracklisting is as follows: ‘Gobbledigook’ ‘InnГ­ MГ©r Syngur Vitleysingur’ ‘GГіГ°an Daginn’ ‘ViГ° Spilum Endalaust’ ‘Festival’ ‘SuГ° Г­’ ‘ГЃra BГЎtur’ ‘Illgresi’ ‘FljГіtavГ­k’ ‘Straumnes’ ‘All Alright Eyrum’ According to Sigurros.com the album cover features people streaking across a motorway.
» Read the full Sigur Ros announce details of ‘nude’ new album article…

After Frank Sinatra's successful run with Capitol Records he decided to strike out on his own and start his own label. So, in the late 60's he founded Reprise. Nothing But the Best is a greatest hits collection from Frank's Reprise years. While Sinatra's Capitol songs are the type of songs you hear in musicals and movie soundtracks, his Reprise works are more the type you hear over your spaghetti dinner. Sinatra still sang swingy, vocal pop but now the strings sounded more classical and the songs were more reflective.
» Read the full Music Review: Frank Sinatra - Nothing But the Best article…