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Song Du Jour #29, Blur
Blur have made another track of their upcoming album available. “There Are Too Many of Us” will feature on The Magic Whip, set to be released on April 27 and their first album since Think Tank, in 2003.
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Song Du Jour #7, The Smiths
The Smiths’ second and most commercially successfull studio album Meat Is Murder was released exactly 30 years ago, on Feb. 11, 1985.
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Song Du Jour #1, Saturn’s Pattern
It’s only a snippet, but it’s a good way to start the week. Paul Weller has released a teaser of his upcoming album “Saturn’s Pattern”, which will be released next spring. The former frontman of The Jam said this album “is one of the best things I’ve done,” according to this month’s issue of Uncut. […]
With his new Kickstarter project, “The DNA Project,” Israeli-born and Brooklyn-based musician j.viewz wants to produce a new kind of album in which his fans will be able “reach into and trace each song back to its origin,” he explains on the crowdfunding site. The project offers several different interactive innovations between the artist and […]
If it weren’t for his name discreetly written on the cover of his new album, you’d think Bror Gunnar Jansson’s Moan Snake Moan might be the lost recordings of a 1920’s American delta bluesman. But no, it’s 2014, Jansson is Swedish, and he’s playing gigs around Europe. With his raw, dark and diabolical blues, the […]
Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world. Worldcrunch Pick: Earlier this month, Legacy Recordings released “Elvis, The Movie Soundtracks,” a box set of not 2, 3 or 5 albums, but 20 complete CDs compiling the King’s best movie songs. Between 1956 and 1969, Elvis played in […]