Archive for Digital Music

SoCal punk legends Bad Religion will record a live album during the upcoming spring leg of their 30th anniversary tour — and then give it away ‘as a free ‘thank you’ to the loyal fans who’ve been with us through all the sweat and mayhem.’

While Matt Johnson continues to preview new The The music on his monthly “Radio Cineola” podcasts, the March edition has a real surprise: the debut of ‘No Hiding Place,’ a previously unheard track from his unreleased 1979 album ‘Spirits.’

The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan premiered the video of his all-star cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ swampy 1956 classic ‘I Put a Spell on You’ — proceeds from which will benefit Haiti — at the Shockwaves NME Awards in London on Wednesday night.

Dinosaur Jr guitar slinger J Mascis has teamed up with two members of Cobra Verde and one of his Witch bandmates for a new project: Sweet Apple, which delivers its 12-track debut album, Love & Desperation, on April 20, and is expected to tour later this year.

[tweetmeme]Kristin Hersh today announced she’s begun work on a new Throwing Muses album, and is both letting fans in on the creative process by posting in-progress demos and asking her supporters to help finance the record — which would be the band’s first since 2003’s Throwing Muses.
Announcing the project via Twitter as “my dream come [...]

[tweetmeme]Robyn Hitchcock this spring will release the 3-years-in-the-making Propellor Time, an album recorded with current back-up band The Venus 3 — R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Young Fresh Fellows’ Scott McCaughey and ex-Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin — and featuring guest turns by the likes of The Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Nick Lowe and John Paul Jones of Led [...]

[tweetmeme]The The’s Matt Johnson today debuted both a new monthly web broadcast and some brand-new music with the first installment of “Radio Cineola,” which can be heard as a 10-minute audio stream on TheThe.com or purchased as an expanded 15-minute download.
The January broadcast, hosted by the dusky-voiced Johnson himself, features six mostly instrumental songs, including [...]

[tweetmeme]Daniel Ash — key player in ’80s darkwave acts Bauhaus, Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail — this month quietly released the four-track It’s a Burn Out EP on iTunes, marking the singer’s first original solo recordings in eight years.
The collection, released Dec. 8 with little fanfare, features four of the tracks that Ash [...]

[tweetmeme]Perhaps tired of waiting for a chance to record a new Pixies album, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering have formed a new band called The Everybody and are inviting fans to “remix, re-imagine and re-invent” the songs from their debut album — and even sell the new tunes, royalty-free.
Out now, the nine-track Avatar [...]

[tweetmeme]Post-punk legends Mission of Burma hit Austin, Texas, a few weeks ago to play the Fun Fun Fun Fest, and while they were in town, the band dropped by the studios of WOXY.com — newly relocated from Cincinnati — to record a few tracks at the station for broadcast.
Three of those songs — “After the [...]