U2’s twelfth studio album, and their first in five years, No Line On The Horizon, is being released on March 3, 2009. Thanks to the full album being streamed on the group’s MySpace page, I’ve been able to review it early, although thanks to a mistake by the record company, I could ...

Music of 2008 A series of posts Music of 2008: #25–#11 Music of 2008: Top ten 10. Stereolab — Chemical Chords This is more or less what you would expect from Stereolab. Fantastically jaunty and slightly idiosyncratic pop songs. This is hardly Stereolab’s best album (and I say that ...

  David Byrne sarà in Italia con un imperdibile tour di quattro date: il 19 aprile a Senigallia, il 20 a Verona, il 21 a Milano e il giorno dopo a Modena. Continua a leggere David Byrne: nuovo al bum con Brian Eno. E quattro date in Italia... Commenta »...

Switching tools isn’t a panacea, but it can inspire new ideas, by changing the way you structure your music. Elysium is a powerful new sequencer in development for the Mac the creates generative patterns on a beehive-shaped hexagonal grid. For the hardcore, you can even extend the tool with Ruby a...

:: Chinese Democracy has officially sold over 500,000 units. Scary. :: Pale Young Gentlemen recently covered M.I.A.’s Paper Planes . The recreation of the sound effects is interesting, but I’ll take the real-life gunshots and cash register any day. I like to imagine that the engineer was...

Edge.org recently posted a collection of 151 thoughts from leading thinkers on the “game-changing scientific ideas or developments� they think will “change everything� within their lifetimes. Having co-authored a book about how mass collaboration will change everything I was particularly int...

Guitar Hero and Rock Band make loud noises and sell big, but there's a quieter brand of music application bubbling under: the ambient sound creator. Disquiet traces the idea back to the GameBoy game Electroplankton, which allowed players to create sounds with a stylus, but it became prominent (among...

Hey Folks! I hope this finds you well. Before I dive in, there are a few things about my top 10 records list. Firstly, I have purposefully omitted some of the bigger guns/scene darlings. Everybody loved Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Cut Copy, etc… myself included. Okay, not everybody. However, there ...

Image by sheilaellen via Flickr This modern classical performance is reviewed. Tuesday night the L.A. Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series brought works by three acknowledged masters of post-WWII avant-garde music (and one fantastic runner up) to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Most of these pieces ...

Like the bald aging dude who made the first Roxy Music album what it was, did Baby’s on Fire, Burning Airlines Give You So Much More, ambient music and went on to be the best producer of music in the known universe (even though some bands have proven to be beyond even His help)? Wanna a win a ...