The Carpenter Overview
New 2012 album from North Carolina folk-pop outfit produced by Rick Rubin with cameos from members of Red Hot Chili Peppers & Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. Includes 'Live & Die'.
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Carpenter
New 2012 album from North Carolina folk-pop outfit produced by Rick Rubin with cameos from members of Red Hot Chili Peppers & Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. Includes 'Live & Die'.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Love This Giant
Love This Giant Overview
David Byrne & St. Vincent present their collaboration album, Love This Giant, recorded over two years, largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ. The album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with Byrne and St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) co-writing ten of the album's twelve tracks, and each artist penning one song individually. The album centers around an explosive brass band and is propelled by John Congleton's drum programming.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The 2nd Law
The 2nd Law Overview
Muse didn't set out to make the most gloriously ambitious album of their career. How could they have? The band who dreamt up "Supermassive Black Hole," Knights Of Cydonia and the three-part "Exogenesis" symphony were already well-versed in going One Louder. Any wilder, any further out there, and Muse would risk incineration by a dwarf star of their own making. But you don't become one of the biggest bands on this planet by sitting on your hands.
So when Muse approached the making of their sixth studio album, they wouldn't stint on the choirs, strings and horn sections. And be reassured: guitar-shredding, piano-thumping, orchestra-arranging, book-chewing, big-thinking Matt Bellamy, as the band's chief songwriter, didn't lower his sights from The Big Picture nor ignore The Precious Details. And nor were the trio afraid of giving space to a brilliant new element to their sound - songs written and sung by bass player Chris Wolstenholme.
But what the Devon-born band of schoolfriends did do different was this: they made things easy for themselves. For the first time since the dawn of their career in smalltown England 18 years ago, all three members were living in the same place during the making of an album.
And this time, Muse had the experience born of self-producing The Resistance to apply their studio knowledge to creating the album they really wanted to make.
It was about saving aggro, and conserving energy. And, appropriately, it was about The 2nd Law: an album titled after and thematically influenced by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which concerns the inevitable wasting of energy within a closed system.
It was about letting themselves go and enjoying themselves. Muse, after all, had earned it.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Eye On It
Eye On It Overview
With over 10 million in career sales, TobyMac's first four solo projects reached RIAA
Gold status and GRAMMY" nominations, his live CD/DVD took home a GRAMMY"
award in 2009, and in 2011 the much-celebrated and acclaimed artist celebrated
his seventh consecutive GRAMMY" nomination, "Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel
Album," for his previous album Tonight. The GRAMMY" nominated single "City
On Our Knees" track topped the sales and radio charts faster than any of his
previous singles, spending 8 weeks at #1 on the Christian Audience Chart. Tonight
also garnered him the highest sales debut of Toby's solo career with over 78,000
units and a No. 6 Billboard Top 200 debut. The album also took home the Dove Award for "Best Rock
Contemporary Album of the Year."
Along with sold out tour dates, back-to-back radio hits and being named the
GMA Dove Award's 2008 "Artist of the Year," he was also nominated for "Favorite
Contemporary Inspirational Artist" at the 2010 American Music Awards and was up
for three Billboard Music Awards this year including "Top Christian Artist." The hit
song "Tonight" was also chosen as the theme song for MLB's 30 Clubs in 30 Days
Spring Training Series and featured on the Golf Channel. Additionally, his music
has been heard in major motion pictures such as "Hancock" and "TRANSPORTER
2," while also being featured on Fox sports and The NFL network, and selected as
the theme song for Fox College Football. "Showstopper," from the chart-topping
album TONIGHT, was featured in ESPN's ESPY Award Show and used to launch
the last season of CBS hit television show CSI: NY.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Uncaged
Uncaged Overview
Zac Brown Band is set to release new album Uncaged on July 10, and the band’s lead singer Zac Brown says in a statement the project is the culmination of the “powerful chemistry that’s developed by living, traveling and working as a band.”
“We’re always trying to push the barrier of our musicianship, and I’m proud to say that there is a little bit of something for everyone,” he says of Uncaged.
The 11-song album features a slew of special guests including Amos Lee and Trombone Shorty, as well as songs written or co-written by other artists including Jason Mraz and Nic Cowan and Sonia Leigh.
The album was recorded at various studios in Atlanta, Nashville, Asheville, N.C., and Key West, Fla. The band’s two previous albums, The Foundation and You Get What You Give, have gone platinum and produced nine consecutive No. 1 songs.
“This is the first record we’ve made from start to finish in one thought,” said multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook. “The previous albums have been a collection of songs ... this is an album.”
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