Mainly Rock

My favorite music magazine in France is Rock&Folk. In the latest issue they have published the result of their readers poll. Arcade Fire come in first for “Best Group”, ” Best Album”, “Best Concert”, “Hope” (this would probably translate better as “Newcomer”) and “Best Record Cover”. The song “Rebellion” comes in as 5th best song [...]

Google has just made a new service available: Google Musicsearch
The main functionality seems to be to direct users to online stores for downloads or CDs. I’m not sure this will be really useful to me…

After the major disappointment of the Cat Power concert in Paris the other day, which was so bad, we left before the end, just like about half of the crowd, it is good to have a preview of her upcoming album available here

Now that the the final draw for the World Cup is done, the other events of next summer are also starting to announce their line-up.
Benicàssim starts off with Depeche Mode. I guess it won’t be the only festival they will play next summer…

This is an amazing site:
Fabchannel.Com - Live and on demand music concert webcasts - Broadband streaming video - Paradiso and Melkweg Amsterdam The Netherlands
With a team of dedicated, music loving directors, editors, programmers and promoters Fabchannel has built one of the biggest online concert archives in the world. 400 full-length concerts, festivals, performances, debates [...]

Pitchfork recently had a very interesting (and long) article on Indie Pop, it decribes today’s American Indie Music as follows:
the fashionable music-of-choice for a certain sort of mostly-white, mostly-educated, mostly-middle-class young people, the sorts of kids the British call “student types.”
This pretty much decribes a lot of music coming out America these days, and hits [...]

Seems like tonight I’m digging up all of these videos on the internet… Ryan Adams is releasing more records in 2005 that most artists in their entire career. The last one, titled 29 is coming out on December 20. And now you can listen to the first single and see the video that goes [...]

I have talked about Peter Doherty’s Babyshambles earlier, now the other half of The Libertines is also claiming his share of attention. You can see the new video of Carl Barat’s new band, the Dirty Pretty Things, here.

If you have tried to leave a comment in the past, you were probably exposed to a complicated login screen, which required you to create a user name etc. This was due to the fact that I don’t really know what I am doing when setting up and configuring this blog.
You can now access the [...]

Being the Rocksnob that I am, my favorite Christmas tune is the B-side of a Japanese Keith Richards solo single… Its vinyl, of course, but Randy’s Rodeo has ripped it for you.
Get it here and don’t forget to buy the presents.