On September 29th, The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova) will be releasing a CD entitled Strict Joy. It’ll mark the duo/band’s first release since its wildly popular Once movie and soundtrack. Yep, everyone, they’re back, bringing with them some emotional tunes of the emotional-est order. Well, this is cool. I don’t have much… Continue reading The Swell Season to release CD
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Knowing the Orphan spoiler is more fun than seeing the actual movie
I guess movie studios really like horror movie twists? Like maybe they saw The Sixth Sense and were all “That’s the ONLY way to do it now.” So now we have Orphan and the tagline is basically “This movie has a CRAZY twist.” But the twist happens to be SO crazy that people online are… Continue reading Knowing the Orphan spoiler is more fun than seeing the actual movie
Siren Festival set times for all you hungry readers
Yum, yum, yum. The lovely concert that all of your esteemed Knox Road writers will be attending, the Siren Music Festival in Coney Island, NY, has just announced its official schedule. Salivation: commence. Main Stage 7:30 – Built to Spill 6:00 – The Raveonettes 5:00 – Grand Duchy 4:00 – Frightened Rabbit 3:00 – Japandroids… Continue reading Siren Festival set times for all you hungry readers
The Dead Weather to premiere short film; music fans to shrug indifferently
If you didn’t know already, The Dead Weather has a “short film” coming out for their song “Treat Me Like Your Mother.” According to the email we received, it will be “groundbreaking,” “uncensored,” and “on Cinemax.” Frankly, I’m surprised that Cinemax would stoop so low as to possibly show nudity. Tsk tsk. Anyway, they’ve released… Continue reading The Dead Weather to premiere short film; music fans to shrug indifferently
Frightened Rabbit to tour America with fellow Scots The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks
Coolest tour news ever?? Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit, quite possibly one of my favorite bands of the past year or so, are teaming up with fellow countrymen The Twilight Sad, as well as We Were Promised Jetpacks, for a huge North American tour. Expect a lot of wonderfully sad, epic shows, filled with the atmospheric noise… Continue reading Frightened Rabbit to tour America with fellow Scots The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks
The Rural Alberta Advantage album, Hometowns, streaming in full
The Rural Alberta Advantage‘s album, Hometowns, which has been received with much hype and fanfare is now streaming live from Paste’s website. It’s awesome. Basically alt-folk with a kick-in-the-ass. Oh yeah, there’s also some twee. I know, kind of antithetical. But listen, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. This re-release of the album is officially… Continue reading The Rural Alberta Advantage album, Hometowns, streaming in full
Muse reveal The Resistance tracklist, prepare to duel with gods
So recently Muse gave us the ol’ list of tracks for their newest, The Resistance, which comes out on September 14th of this year…and it’s the most hyperbolic, epic, seraph-mangling, monster-truck-rallying, Avada Kadavra-casting group of words ever put to paper. See for yourself: 1. Uprising 2. Resistance 3. Undisclosed Desires 4. United States of Eurasia… Continue reading Muse reveal The Resistance tracklist, prepare to duel with gods
[Not really news] Amy Millan releases details for sophomore effort, Masters Of The Burial
I know, I’m about six days late on this one. SORRY. I’m actually kicking myself for it, so I can handle your virtual slap in the face. With July 4 and a slew of American spirit and independence coming our way, what better time to continue spotlighting Canadian label, Arts & Crafts? (By the way,… Continue reading [Not really news] Amy Millan releases details for sophomore effort, Masters Of The Burial
Cool Things: The “Asteroids” movie
Oops, did I say “cool things?” I meant to say “the worst things.” It’s true, Universal is making a movie, a real movie, based on the old arcade game Asteroids. You know, that game where a little pixely triangle shoots little pixely dots at bigger pixely shapes? I guess they figured Q-Bert would have offered too… Continue reading Cool Things: The “Asteroids” movie
Antony and the Johnsons covers Beyoncé
I’m sure we’ve all come across the billions of Serious Bands covering Pop Artists, and it’s so ironic, ohmygawd LOL! Did you hear that Talented Band cover “I Kissed a Girl” acoustic? They’re not even girls, they’re boys OF COURSE THEY’D LIKE KISSING GIRLS! But now here comes Antony and the Johnsons covering Beyoncé’s “Crazy… Continue reading Antony and the Johnsons covers Beyoncé