Fans of genre-crossing trip-hop trio Portishead can breathe a sigh of relief — it appears that there won’t be another 11-year wait before the group’s next album.
Year: 2008
Free Download: “Goodbye” from Never Better by P.O.S.
“Goodbye” from Never Better by P.O.S.
“Goodbye” from Never Better by P.O.S.
Available for download here.
Mates of State Live on NPR
Married pop duo Mates of State recently traveled around the country for National Public Radio’s This American Life, providing the program’s musical accompaniment. The two also just played a live set for NPR, belting out their lighthearted piano-and-drums creations.
Follow this link to hear Mates of State live on NPR.
Books to Give for the 2008 Holiday Season (Suggested by Online Editor Scott Morrow)
Covering politics, comic books, nude self-portraits, futuristic architecture, and humorous basketball profiles, ALARM lists five awesome books as gift ideas for your musically, artistically, or culturally interesting friends.
Audition to Dance in the Yard Dogs Road Show
Do you love the vaudevillian flair, burlesque dancers, freak-show theatrics, and circus/Gypsy/brass-band party tunes of the Yard Dogs Road Show? If so, and you live near San Francisco — and, most importantly, you have experience as a dancer/showperson — you can audition to fill in for the Black and Blue Burlesque on future Yard Dogs performances.
“Punk Chamber Ensemble” Barbez Announces European Tour Dates
After playing a few shows on the East Coast in early to mid-January, Tzadik recording artists Barbez have a baker’s dozen shows stretching through much of Europe.
Weekly Burlesque: Vigil to End Violence Towards Sex Workers in NYC
Wednesday, December 17th, 7-8pm in the center of Washington Square Park. Carry a red umbrella or wear red.
For more information and events in other cities, keep reading.
New Shirts from The Cancer Conspiracy: Buy ‘Em
The Cancer Conspiracy was a relatively obscure prog/indie-rock group from Vermont. The trio released a hugely unsung magnum opus, The Audio Medium, in 2002 on Big Wheel Rec, but its subsequent recordings were caught in legal purgatory when Big Wheel went under.
Six Awesome Holiday 2008 Gifts For Under $100
ALARM Magazine lists six awesome gifts for that hard-to-buy-for hipster pal of yours. (We’ve omitted books & music; they will have their own lists.)
Novels I Didn’t Have To Read For Work In 2008
An unorganized, partial list of some of the non-work-related books I read (but weren’t released) this year.
The first time I met drummer Bill Stevenson (the Descendents, Black Flag) in the mid-’90s, he swore that I would love Charles Bukowski. It has taken me over a decade, but I’ve finally read him, and I liked it. I read Post Office
Weekly Music News Roundup
Blue Note announces another list of catalogue deletions; Akron/Family and High on Fire sign to new labels; Trent Reznor comments on Nine Inch Nails‘ music being used in the torture of overseas detainees. Keep reading…