Canadian rock outfit Hot Hot Heat will return in the fall with its next album, “Happiness LTD.” Due Sept. 11 via Sire, the project was co-produced by the band with Butch Walker, Tim Palmer and Rob Cavallo. Tracks include “Outta Heart,” which frontman Steve Bays calls “the most non-Hot Hot Heat song we’ve ever done,” and “Harmonicas & Tambourines,” which features four drum kits playing at once. “It covers the journey from bliss to misery and the attempt to get back to bliss, while acknowledging how exciting the ride can be in between,” Bays adds of the album. “Happiness LTD.”… Read more »
INDIO, California – Perhaps it was a sign that the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Arcade Fire and Hot Chip were sharing the same bill. Whatever the case, Saturday was certainly one of the most scorching Coachella afternoons ever, with temperatures into the100s for hours on end. That meant the tented stages provided plenty of shadowy solace, while pre-sunset outdoor acts were playing to their diehards and suffering while doing it. (Let’s just say there were multiple hipster rockers quoting Lil Jon’s infamous sweat-dripping lyrics.) Still, Peter Bjorn and John and the Decemberists wore their suits and the Sahara tent was… Read more »
Season 3, Episode 11. Originally aired May 10, 2007. Special French Only Episode. Tell Pete Wentz happy birthday on June 5. It’s also the birthday of some guy in Simple Plan… Music by Vulgaires Machins, Dumas, Accrophone, Jean Leloup.
Season 3, Episode 10. Originally aired April 19, 2007 on idobi Radio. Music from Jack Johnson & Matt Costa, G. Love, One Republic, Adam Sandler, Sublime, James Blunt, Bedouin Soundclash, Money Mark, and Afterburner.
Oasis, the Killers, and Kaiser Chiefs are to cover songs from the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to mark the 40th anniversary of the classic album’s release. The original album was released on June 1, 1967, and to mark the event the big names will all be covering tracks from the record for a BBC2 special to be aired in the U.K. on June 2. Razorlight, James Morrison, the Fratellis, and Travis are among the other acts taking part. The BBC reports that Geoff Emerick, the engineer in charge of the original sessions, will use the same equipment… Read more »
Season 3, Episode 9. Originally aired April 5, 2007 on idobi Radio. Music from Linkin Park, Butch Walker, The Academy Is…, Paramore, Mickey Avalon, Hawthorne Heights, A Permanent Holiday, Augustana, and Eddie Vedder.
Season 3, Episode 8. Originally aired March 29, 2007 on idobi Radio. Music from Each On Set, Madina Lake, Head Automatica, The Format, In Theory, The American Analog Set, Tim Armstrong, Timbaland ft Fall Out Boy, and Korn ft Amy Lee.
Like Al Pacino in “The Godfather Part III,” just when eco warrior Al Gore thinks he’s pulled himself free of Washington, D.C.’s partisan politics, he gets pulled right back into the muck. Former Democratic Vice President Gore, one of the organizers behind the July 7 global-climate-crisis-awareness concert Live Earth , has run into opposition from Senate Republicans over his plans to have one of the eight worldwide shows take place in D.C. And, depending on who you believe, the objection to the concert is either a matter of simple parliamentary procedure or just politics as usual. Oklahoma Republican Senator James… Read more »
Season 3, Episode 7. Originally aired March 22, 2007 on idobi Radio. Music from Sherwood, Three Days Grace, The Used, Secondhand Serenade, Holiday Parade, Test Your Reflex, Faber Drive, The Black List Club, and The Scene Aesthetic.
Somehow, Sanjaya did it again. This year’s most improbable “American Idol” survivor dodged the elimination bullet once again on Wednesday – maybe it was the “crying girl” who helped him out – on a night when voters sent home one of the season’s most promising singers, Stephanie Edwards. With a reported 30 million votes cast, Edwards, 19, got the boot after her shaky performance of Dusty Springfield’s “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” on Tuesday night’s British Invasion-themed evening of tunes. The end came after singing a song whose lyrics turned out to be ironically prophetic (“You don’t… Read more »
