Indie Music

Peter Gabriel Covers Radiohead, Neil Young, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Bon IverAnd More On New Album, Scratch My Back, Due January 25 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel has announced the track list for his new album, Scratch My Back, due January 25, 2010. This is the first album in a series that will find Gabriel and various other musicians covering each others' material. Gabriel is working with John Metcalfe to re-imagine the compositions...  

For the third album covered in its entirety by Beck’s Record Club, the Modern Guilt rocker recruited Wilco, Feist and Jamie Liddell to perform Skip Spence’s 1969 offbeat folk-rock album Oar. Beck’s Record Club, “an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day,” laid down Oar back in June, when Wilco [...]  

Filed under: News, New Music, ExclusiveWith the release of its new EP, 'Fall Be Kind,' Animal Collective is clearing the vaults of material recorded during sessions for 'Merriweather Post Pavilion,' one of the most critically fawned-over albums of 2009. In doing so, multi-instrumentalist Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, says the New York City-via-Baltimore band is closing the book on a "really positive" chapter in its career."I think that's why we...  

Filed under: News, UKThe Strokes' 'Is This it?' has been chosen as the Album of the Decade by NME.The 2001 debut by the tight-jeaned five-piece from the Lower East Side, the album beat the likes of the Libertines, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Streets, Radiohead, and Arcade Fire to take the magazine's award.The winning album was chosen by a panel of more than 100 music industry figures, including bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Glasvegas, Paul...  

If you’re someone who loves to listen to alternative rock then songs like “Yellow”, “Fix you” and “The Scientist” should sound very familiar to you. If you’re not very familiar then these songs were by the London based, alternative rock band called Coldplay. This band, formed in 1998, has achieved great heights in the music industry. they’ve even been compared to musical sensations like U2, Travis and even Radiohead.  

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[Updated: 10:47 A.M.]   NEWS: ARCADE FIRE Recording In NYC Richard Parry reveals he's adding string sections to the band's first new songs since 2007. [Quietus] HOT CHIP Announce New Album Details One Life Stand drops Feb. 9. [NME] THOM YORKE Protests Against U.K. Nuclear Development "Great. Just perfect. Well done fellas," the Radiohead man sarcastically writes on his blog. [Radiohead] DAVE GROHL: "I Knew KURT COBAIN Would Die Early...  

News Corp site settles row with Merlin agency whose clients include Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire WeekendMySpace has settled a year-long row with independent record companies with a landmark deal that will allow artists including Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead and Vampire Weekend to sell tracks on the social networking site's music service.MySpace Music launched in the US last year, recently expanded into Australia and New Zealand and plans...  

Nigel Powell remembers a five-a-side football game between Oxford indie legends Radiohead and Ride. This is an outtake from the forthcoming documentary ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR which tells the thirty year story of Oxfords indie music scene. It features never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews with members of Radiohead, Ride, Supergrass, Oasis, Foals, Talulah Gosh, Swervedriver, [...]  

In this edition: Paper Bag Records give away a free digital covers compilation, Zeus announce debut album details, Feist collaborates with Beck and Wilco, details about Bookie's free Arts & Crafts special tonight at the Shoe, the Meligrove Band catch the swine flu, Constantines add a third date at Lee's, the partial line-up for the 3rd annual Hillside Inside is announced, and info on a slew of upcoming vinyl releases from Fucked Up. Plus...  

American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert may look good in his skinny jeans now, but he used to weigh over 250 pounds in high school. "I suffered from a little bit of an ugly duckling complex in my early twenties," Lambert, 27, revealed to Sirius XM. "When I was in high school, I was 250 pounds, and that creates some body-image stuff, some confidence issues." Adam, who is openly gay, stirred controversy last month at the American Music Awards when...  

Before the holiday, the Neon Indian remixes for Grizzly Bear's Cheerleader were only available to stream, but FADER and Stereogum released free mp3s of the tracks today.MP3 : Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (Neon Indian Sega Genesis P-Orridge Remix)MP3 : Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (Neon Indian 'Studio 6669' Remix)--------------------------------------------------------MySpace | More MP3s | eMusic | Subscribe To RSS Feed | Follow MOKB on Twitter  

Rather than give some lengthy introduction, I'll just give one reminder: this is by no means meant to be an "end all, be all" list or canon of this past decade's music. Rather than saying "here are the absolute best albums of the decade," it's more like "here are the fifty albums that meant the most to us." If we forgot your favorite album there's a 50/50 chance we either haven't heard it or didn't like it more than these, but either way feel...  

Happy December! With Thanksgiving already in the books and my neighbors already busting out their holiday lights, it's safe to say "that time of the year" has started rolling downhill like a wayward snowball once again. Alongside of doorbuster sales, twinkling lights, and Salvation Army bell-ringers; numerous musical acts are sure to partake in the festivities by releasing songs with a holiday hue.Camera Obscura have taken their soft...  

Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) has been around many a block musically speaking. In his native New Zealand he's worked with Ruby Sun's Ryan McPhun as The Reduction Agents and has played with The Brunettes, while here in the states he's kicked it with Feist and Okkervil River on more than one occasion. Perhaps that helps explain the eclecticism on Chant Darling, Milne's second release as Lawrence Arabia.[MP3] Lawrence Arabia - The UndesirablesI...