The full line-up for the annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival has been confirmed and announced. continue reading...

Six years go by and The Strokes finally explode back onto the scene.  “Under Cover Of Darkness” is the perfect song to welcome the band back with multiple hooks and enough guitar parts to keep you interested for hours.   The music for the new album Angles was written without vocals and Julian Casablancas added them after the fact.  It definitely makes sense when you listen to this song as the instrumentation is incredibly busy, but the vocals work.  Hopefully it works for the rest of the album as well.  Can’t wait for this one… continue reading...

The Strokes are primed to make their long awaited comeback and to start things off they are going to offer the first single “Under Cover Of Darkness” as a free download starting tomorrow February 9th.   The new album, and first in 6 years, is titled Angles and officially hits the street on March 21st.   The band has described the new music as a return to “classic” sounding Strokes, which is interesting considering they’ve only released 3 albums…  but they’ve leaked a brief snippet of “Under Cover Of Darkness” and the result is a tantalizing blast of music that can only be described as Strokes-y.  Very excited.   Check out the preview: continue reading...

The Strokes will release their 4th album Angles on March 22nd.   5 years after their last album, First Impressions Of Earth, it’s about effing time.  Apparently the first single will be “Undercover of Darkness” and expect the first sounds to leak to the web pretty soon. They’re also set to co-headline day 3 of Coachella and additional tour dates can’t be far behind.   Here’s an old classic to get you excited: continue reading...

The early buzz is that Coachella 2010 was a fantastic success and thanks to the magic of YouTube you can fairly easily find some of the coolest performances.  The one band that I was most interested in is the cartoon band Gorillaz and how their performance would translate to a festival audience.   Apparently it was was amazing, check out Damon Albarn and company performing “Feel Good Inc.”: continue reading...

With a fresh announcement yesterday that they’ll be closing out Coachella 2010 and a leak of the new single “Stylo” today, Gorillaz are back on the pop music map and set to release Plastic Beach on March 8th. Check out the single and more info from NME.com:

Gorillaz will release their third album, ‘Plastic Beach’ on March 8, the cartoon creations of Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have told NME.COM. continue reading...