Next month, it’ll be a year since Kanye West battled it out with rapper 50 Cent for the “top spot” on the charts. If you recall, 50 Cent proclaimed he’d quit the rapping business if his record, Curtis, didn’t peak over the Chicago rapper’s third album, Graduation. It was a good publicity stunt, which sent [...]

EP’s are a funny thing. They often serve as a bridge to the next album or an introduction to the next single, while at the same time allowing the artist to release b-sides, remixes, or just straight out new material. For Australia’s Architecture in Helsinki, it’s a way to continue the [...]

New York’s alternative rap collective Blestenation has recently begun creating official remixes of songs by artists such as The Cool Kids and Puscifer (featuring Maynard James Keenan from Tool). The band has been around since 2000 and has toured and recorded with artists like Method Man, Travis Barker and Ghostface [...]

For many, the start of the NFL season is easily the best time of year. Add that to all the accompanying fantasy football fun, and its tough not get a bit antsy, even when the season officially kicks off in a little more than two weeks. Since like the NFL, we’re all about healthy competition  [...]

In the midst of their current European tour with R.E.M., the Editors have announced plans to begin working on the follow up to 2007’s An End Has a Start begining in October. Promising an even more electric-heavy sound, the currently untitled, third studio album will look to build on the band’s success in Europe, while [...]

Fans of Australian rockers AC/DC have been waiting too long. Eight years is brutal for anyone that’s been wanting a follow up to 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip. However, there’s some positive light to the long, long wait. Patience has added up it seems as “Rock N’ Roll Train”, the new single off the band’s upcoming [...]

Though Skeletal Lamping, the newest crazed album from neo-pych rockers Of Montreal, isn’t set for release until October 7th, Kevin Barnes and fellow freaks have graced fans with one of the album’s songs via Rolling Stone. The song has most of the qualities from last year’s Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? , (wacky melodies, [...]

After spending time with Pearl Jam on half of its east coast tour (acquiring many new fans along the way), finishing their fourth studio album, and headlining multiple Europen festivals, Kings of Leon couldn’t have asked for a bigger summer. Today, the Tennessee based outfit looked to cap things off with the unveiling of Only [...]

This weekend will see the likes of Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Death Cab for Cutie, and T.I. among others head to Seattle to take part in the 38th annual Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival. While Prince and Rage Against the Machine may not be showing up, with a solid pick of quality headliners, mid-tier favorites, [...]

During this past weekend’s Outside Lands Music Festival, our own Allison Franks had the opportunity to sit down with organist and bassist Peter Bauer of The Walkmen. Coming of a performance the night before in Los Angeles, Bauer was visibly a bit worn down, but still found time, in between sips of beer, to [...]

ATP New York took the next steps today in its ongoing pursuit to make every non-attendee of the inaugural edition of the My Bloody Valentine curated event really, really jealous. With the Monticello, New York based music festival scheduled to take place in less than a month (September 19-21), ATP and MBV have unveiled the [...]

What better way to spend your Christmas season than by watching Shane MacGowan recreate the magic of “Fairytale of New York” in the all out mayhem of a live Pogues show. Well, if you’re intrigued by the idea and/or are planning a trip to Europe in December, you’ll have the opportunity to take part in [...]

With all of these nostalgic acts popping up, it’s nice to see someone else take it to another level.
Chris DeMarc’s style is lodged somewhere between Peter Frampton and Buffalo Springfield, without a talkbox.  With classic rock and 80s seeping through, he would have fit well into a tour with the likes of Boston, and this [...]

After all the hoopla revolving around Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion and rumored Bonnaroo appearance that never came to be earlier this year, the English legends have been keeping pretty quiet. Well, aside from a semi-reunion with the Foo Fighters and some more Robert Plant solo work.
However, it now appears time to start revving up the [...]

This one sure had me wringing my own neck. It’s a little awkward at first, but I think we’ll get some believers this time. Not sure what “believers” means in that context, but let’s just say… the tables might turn as opposed to that last Ramones debacle. Anyhow, let’s keep this dirty and unrefined (but [...]

CoS favorites and recent interviewees Sam Champion will be the next music outfit to follow in the steps of The Walkmen and release its upcoming album, Heavenly Bender (September 2), via AimeStreet.com. In fact, for the price of $3.00, the New York based outfit pretty much blows The Walkmen’s $5.00 cost for You & Me [...]

A lot is going on in the world of Oasis these dates. With the band’s cleverly titled, new studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, due out the first week of October, the Gallagher brothers currently find themselves enthralled in all the necessary obligations of a new release. They’re touring, releasing music singles and music videos, [...]

I don’t know what it is about the UK, but they make some of the finest music I have ever listened to. Maybe it’s the cold, the boredom or even the soccer, but it does something to these artists that other artists elsewhere just can’t seem to grasp or understand. When America has a track [...]