Mainly Rock

Reading And Leeds Festivals to have three American headliners | News | NME.COM
Foo Fighters? Metallica?
I don’t understand the last sentence…

The end of DRM for music files on the Internet is near. It’s all over the web, and the original source seems to be Business Week.
This was of course to be expected, as I already wrote last May…

I’m totally crazy for this song at the moment.

It’s not released on an album, but you can download the free mp3 here.

So I thought it would be nice to share a playlist with my personal favorite songs of the year. This doesn’t necessarily represent my favorite albums, as the focus is on singles… There’s a bit of everything, even something German and French….
I have also spent some thought on the order of the [...]

It kind of throws me back 15 years, but it still is quite amazing. Definetely two of my all time favorites on the same stage… Read all about it at Pitchfork. 
 

Pitchfork: White Stripes Cancel Tour Due to Megs Anxiety

I have no idea what the title means, but it’s the name of the new record of the wonderful The Go from Detroit… The album is being released on July 24th and you can place you order here. If you order the album, you get the mp3’s for free. Even if you’ve ordered the CD…
I [...]

 
This article on the "Comeback of vinyl" from the Chicago Tribune is quite to the point. Some comments however:
180 gram pressing are not "a new technology for vinyl". They actually existed before CD’s were invented
Vinyl is not cheap, but, at least here in France, the price difference is not really that significant, and nowhere near [...]

In October 2002, I was on a business trip in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity to see some old friends who were living there at the time.
By a very fortunate coincidence, it happened to be the week-end on which Bob Mould played the last show of his tour, promoting his latest album, Body of [...]

The Lock-up stage tends to be a total sauna at the Reading festival, whereas the Dance stage sometimes appears to be little bit out of context at a ROCK-festival like Reading.
This year I’m looking forward to see (again) the Bronx, who were brutal last year in the Carling tent, I’ll also give might Turbonegro a [...]