After reading the good (and the bad), I decided to check out Tarantula A.D. at The Big Easy. The Big Easy used to be some kind of Blues club (hence the name) but in the past year or so they’ve tried to transform themselves into some kind of Indie Rock club. I’ve lived in Portland [...]

The second quarter of the fiscal year is when we start to see a lot of “Greatest Hits” album. Hey, they’re the perfect gift for your favorite winter holiday. “Greatest Hits” or “Best Of” albums are already rolling out for Destiny’s Child, Eminem and NSync. I know you can hardly contain your excitement. But the [...]

I’ve had Giant Drag’s Hearts And Unicorns kicking around my desk for a couple weeks now. I’ve been trying - trying to write about it. Call it writer’s block or call it lazyness. I don’t know. But I can’t seem to wrap words around this disc. Don’t misunderstand me though. It is not that I [...]

Bang, bang, bang. The (electro/dance) blogosphere is exploding over the new Tiga track. It is everywhere you turn. As it should be. It’s a hot track. Hell this is my third time posting about it in a month’s time. Beat that. But seriously… it was officially released on PIAS last week in most of Europe [...]

“My Machine” is the third single off of Princess Superstar’s new-ish album which shares the same title. The song sets the tone for the album, which is a concept album about Superstar who decides to clone herself 10,000 times in the future so that she is the only celebrity. “My Machine” (the song, not album) [...]

Ok. Most of you guys won’t care. But I installed a new tagging plug-in on bigstereo. You may notice. This not only provides an internal tagging database which will make bigstereo even easier to navigate, but it also provides outside links to sites such as del.icio.us, flickr, etc that use tags - providing you with [...]

The P. Diddy/Felix Da Housecat record, “Jack U,” will finally make the jump from white label when it is released Monday on Hell’s Gigolo Records. This song of course has been floating around (one version or another) for a while now… But. The much ‘rumoured’ Diddy electro/house album might be slowly rising to the surface [...]

If Justin Timberlake was cool he might sound something like Awesome New Republic. Maybe? There’s a certain amount of indie-white-boy-r&b that is starting to float around. It might be too early to call indie-white-boy-r&b a trend, but I first started to spot it last spring with Hey Willpower. Or maybe it’s been there all along, [...]

Antony & The Johnsons were on Letterman last night. If you missed it… download link below. Perfect size for your new video iPod. Don’t have the new iPod yet? Settle for an mp3 of the performance?

Watch: Antony/Johnsons - “You Are My Sister” (Quicktime 7 | iPod)
Listen: Antony/Johnsons - “You Are My Sister” (mp3)
Purchase: Insound | [...]

No one told me there was a new reissue(thanks Dany!) Muse record out!! They released it in 2001, but only in Europe. How come I haven’t seen any sort of advertising for this? or blogs writting about it? I actually had no idea they had anything semi-new out until I saw High Tension(which is [...]

Just a friendly reminder that Depeche Mode’s new album Playing The Angel is in stores today. It is produced by Ben Hillier (Blur, The Doves).
Be sure to check out the video for “Precious” below.

Watch: Depeche Mode - “Precious” (Quicktime | WMV - hi | WMV - lo)
Purchase: Amazon
US tour dates after the jump.

Admitting I like this song is like admitting I like the Venga Boys or Eiffel 65 or something totally tragic like that. BUT. Hear me out here. Günther is doing something that is just so funny and infectious that it is impossible to not like it… at least at first. Sure they’ll be playing this [...]