NME - The Daily Download — This track has made my week one million times better. Five minutes plus of spaced-out beats and soul-lifting choruses with several different amazing basslines and a New Ordery Morricone riff section thrown in for good measure it is sheer bliss. Pure,... more info

Guardian Music — With his distinctive ability to translate cult film soundtracks, garage fuzz and krautrock into a hip-hop context, the London DJ is building the future of the club sceneI've recently returned from a three-week stint in New York. When I'm there, I oft... more info

Guardian Music — With their baroque music, regretful lyrics and northern soulfulness, the Montgolfier Brothers should have been huge. It's time they had their dueFor the past couple of weeks, I have been filming the Creation Records documentary. It's given me the op... more info

Totally Fuzzy — IMI said...Negativland: OTE Vol. 4: Dick Vaughn's Moribund Music of the 70'senjoy!http://idlemindsinc.blogspot.comCutfrodo said...--** Sentimiento Americano Vol.9 Mark Collie - It's No SecretEllen Foley - The Shuttered PalaceCandela - Väntar PÃ¥... more info

Pitchfork — Years before Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails took scuzzed-out sonics and transgressive imagery to the mall-rock mainstream, the Bay Area funk-metal spazzes in Faith No More violated every form of conventional wisdom and wound up playing bigger venues tha... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — Sometimes, I think, it’s got to be hard to be Bruce Springsteen. Even as he nears 60, there are many, many great expectations placed upon his music. While Dylan fans never know what to expect and are thrilled when Bob releases an album good ... more info

Tracksounds — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETHE INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CRITICS ASSOCIATION (IFMCA) ANNOUNCES ITS 2008 NOMINEES FOR SCORING EXCELLENCETHOMAS NEWMAN’S WALL*E LEADS THE FIELD WITH 4 NOMINATIONSJANUARY 16, 2009. WALL*E, the Pixar movie about a lone rob... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Niemeier / K&K Center of Beat / Retna Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Police, Queen and Ennio Morricone were among those whose music was inducted into the Grammys Hall of Fame. Specifically, Hendrix’s famed Woodstock rendition of “Star-... more info

All About Jazz — PIONEERING JAZZ AND FUSION GUITARIST HITS ROAD IN EARLY '09 WITH WORLDLY NEW BAND Al Di Meola by Francesco Cabras Virtuoso guitarist Al Di Meola will be launching a national tour and releasing a new album in early 2009 with his new project, Al Di ... more info

JamBase — PIONEERING JAZZ AND FUSION GUITARIST HITS ROAD IN EARLY '09 WITH WORLDLY NEW BAND Al Di Meola by Francesco Cabras Virtuoso guitarist Al Di Meola will be launching a national tour and releasing a new album in early 2009 with his new project, Al Di... more info