Mainly Rock

The Covers Project is a cool site for music nerds and rocksnobs…
We’re building a database of cover songs (songs RECORDED by an artist other than the original ARTIST) with the intention of creating cover “chains.”
There is little information how they set it up and there are quite some covers missing, that I could come [...]

The Strokes will be playing in Paris next Sunday (December 3rd) in the Trabendo, which is a really small (and nice) club…
Unfortunately tickets are only available in one Store (Fnac Opéra), starting on Friday at 10am. Sales are limited to one ticket per person.
Never mind where I will be on friday, it won’t be near [...]

This is fun…
Find the band names hidden in this picture:
Dinosaur Jr, Rolling Stones, Smashing Pumpkins, …
Found on Spreeblick

Nic Armstrong has taken 18 months to cross the Atlantic… 3hive has a short comment and some mp3’s.
I mostly agree, as it really is a great album which partly reminds me of the very early Beatles (Star Club).

The Magic Numbers are from England and they are clearly a band with a “The” in their name, but the music is rooted in the sixties rather than in the eighties.

The Magic Numbers
The band is made up of two pairs of sister and brother, which strikes me as unusual and which makes for some very [...]

The first thing to say about this group is that they are called Editors and not The Editors.

Editors - The Back Room
Nevertheless the Editors are a band from the UK and are clearly part of the whole movement of bands with a “The” in the name. And coincidentally (?) they sound similar to Interpol, who [...]

This piece of news is going around the Internet. I saw it first on Coolfer and now slashdot linked to this article in the Guardian.
I still haven’t made a single paid download (but then again, I still buy vinyls…). One thing to keep in mind, not mentioned in the article, is that downloads from iTunes [...]

A couple of days ago Bob Mould announced European dates for his tour of solo performances.
He is playing two shows in Greece and two shows in Belgium, but he’s not coming to France… And his recent electric tour didn’t pass through France either (instead I saw him in DC).
What’s up Bob? Don’t you like [...]

After all these US lists and awards, it was about time for the (British) Empire to strike back… Mike Smith from Take Your Medecine has put together the votes of 14 bloggers to come up with the list The UK’s Hottest 47 Acts.
I take the number one spot as a good example of the famous [...]

The Queens of the Stone Age have a new release, as reviewed on Pitchfork. It’s called Over the Years and Through the Woods and contains live recordings in audio and video format. (I’m being vague here, but you will understand why…)
As it is reviewed as a record on Pitchfork, I assumed it was a CD, [...]