EXCLUSIVE: Hey Monday - Rocks In Studio!
Posted on Jun 10, 2009 @ 09:23PM - Add a comment
It was a big "Homecoming" for the power pop band "Hey Monday" as they rehearsed for their upcoming "Let's Make a Mess" tour in an L.A. Studio. Only RadarOnline.com was there to capture an acoustic version of their single, "How You Love Me Now'' with the pitch -perfect Cassadee, and rolled tape as she jokingly interviewed Michael "Jersey" Moriarty (bass guitar), Mike Gentile (lead guitar), Alex Lipshaw (rhythm guitar) and Elliot James (drums.)
Paul Van Dyk: Volume
Posted on Jun 09, 2009 @ 03:33PM - Add a comment
Electronic dance wizard Paul Van Dyk offers up a two-disc anthology, featuring the greatest tracks off his six studio albums and remix productions over the past 15 years, along with one brand-new mix. In support of the release, Van Dyk will get booties shaking across the nation hitting 18 cities in 18 days. Check out the dates below.
Thu 06/11/09
Phoenix, AZ
Myst
Fri 06/12/09
Magna, UT
The Great Saltair
Eels: Hombre Lobo
Posted on Jun 09, 2009 @ 03:30PM - Add a comment
Mark Everett – a.k.a. E – has returned with his first album in four years that saw him release his autobiography and star in a documentary with his father. “The other projects have been great experiences for me, but this is what I love to do,” says E, who recorded the seventh Eels album in his Los Angeles studio. “I wanted to write a set of songs about desire—that dreadful, intense want that gets you into all sorts of situations that can change your life in big ways.”
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Placebo: Battle For the Sun
Posted on Jun 09, 2009 @ 03:24PM - Add a comment
For their sixth album, Placebo wanted something colorful and lustful – and less dark and bleak - so they enlisted producer Dave Bottrill (known for his work with Tool). “I wanted to do something a bit more upbeat and optimistic, almost psychedelic in the true sense of the word,” says frontman Brian Molko, who penned many of the songs on a boat shadowed by the Eiffel Tower. “Not necessarily inspired by psychedelic music, but full of color. Something that had a libidinous quality to it.”
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CHAIRLIFT “iPOD Song”
Posted on Jun 04, 2009 @ 08:12PM - Add a comment
Remember that infectious song in the iPod campaign last year? The one you couldn’t get out of your head?
Well, the band’s called CHAIRLIFT and RadarOnline.com has the WORLD EXCLUSIVE of the new video for “that iPod” song, “Bruises.” Catch the band at Bonnaroo, All Points West and the Getty Museum. And to see another side of the band, check out SaksFifthAvenue in August to see Chairlift featured in the Marc by Marc Jacobs fall campaign.
Paolo Nutini
Posted on Jun 04, 2009 @ 02:22PM - Add a comment
Though his name might seem a bit misleading, Paolo Nutini is actually from Scotland. The 22-year-old British singer-songwriter, who is often lumped with the likes of James Blunt and Damien Rice, offers up his second album of blue-eyed soul this week, rather optimistically titled Sunny Side Up.
“It’s a flat out positive message, what I’m singing about, it’s a good vibe,” explains Nutini. “I really wanted to project from the album a positivity about what’s happening about life. It’s pretty idealistic, but it kind of gets thrown in your face. There’s no room to be an idealist sometimes. But it’s a happy record.”
Yoko Ono: Back On Top
Posted on Jun 03, 2009 @ 02:34PM - Add a comment
Apparently, people can’t get enough of Yoko as her dance single “I’m Not Getting Enough (The Remixes)” tops the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart which makes this her 3rd Consecutive Club Chart-Topper !
Originally lifted from Ono’s 2001 album, BLUEPRINT FOR A SUNRISE, it spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Club Play Chart before nabbing the coveted #1 spot beating out releases from contemporary pop, dance and rock music
heavyweights like THE KILLERS, RIHANNA, BRITNEY SPEARS and AKON.
Fitz & The Tantrums
Posted on May 27, 2009 @ 05:40PM - Add a comment
"I like this a lot for very obvious reasons…it’s Dope! It might be song of the week, actually." Mark Ronson
Part Motown, part Hall & Oates, L.A. band Fritz & The Tantrums are a modern throwback with “Breakin’ The Chains Of Love”, from their debut EP, “Songs For A Break Up: Volume 1.”
Mark Ronson declared them “dope!” and we couldn’t agree more.
Phoenix Rising
Posted on May 27, 2009 @ 04:07PM - Add a comment
Phoenix’s stunning fourth album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, out in the U.S. on May 26th, is the result of much toil. Music this beautiful doesn’t just spring from musicians’ heads. For the four Frenchmen in Phoenix, it began with finding the right place to record, which proved to be their first big obstacle. There were failed attempts to find inspiration on a boat on the Sienne with a view of the Eiffel Tower, at New York’s Bowery Hotel and another three weeks in a rented New York apartment.
The Biggest Band You’ve Never Heard Of
Posted on May 21, 2009 @ 04:46PM - Add a comment
Hint: They’re from Australia and their single has had the longest chart run in Oz history.
Men At Work?
INXS?
Midnight Oil ?
Wrong all on three counts.
Sneaky Sound System is a huge hit down under with their single “I Love It” an irresistible little ditty that sticks like gum in your brain.
The Sydney trio of Miss Connie (Connie Mitchell), Black Angus (Angus McDonald), and MC Double D (Daimon Downey), will never be mistaken for a hard rock band with their dance club roots and sing-along 1980s electro-pop.
A Musical Stroll With The Walkmen
Posted on May 21, 2009 @ 03:12PM - Add a comment
There’s a reason The Walkmen have been a college-radio staple for almost a decade. The band, which formed in 2000, has an atmospheric sound—and singer Hamilton Leithauser’s Van Morrison-esque vocals—to set them apart from the airwaves’ influx of indie rock.
The group still has a dedicated following of current and former college rockers. Their Wednesday night show at the El Rey in Los Angeles was proof. (I think the only place you’ll ever see as many plaid, button-up shirts is a lumberjack convention.) There’s something inherently nostalgic, but never outright retro, about their dedication to using vintage instruments like upright piano. And Leithauser, who sulks on stage, hands in pockets, has an unfussy presence that’s much more Lou Reed than Brandon Flowers. There were murmurs of recognition every time the group launched into another song, and when they played their driving, best-loved single, “The Rat,” they consumed the audience and the venue in an ocean of sound.
