Friday, March 31, 2006

RS: Audioslave, TV On The Radio, Wolfmother, more...

The latest Rolling Stone covers "The Year's Ten Best New Bands," among them The Boy Least Likely To (who I just saw open up for James Blunt at the 9:30 Club), TV On The Radio (David Bowie's favorite new band), Rock Kills Kid, and Wolfmother (respect thine Wolf!).

It also covers the payola scandal involving Sony-BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, ClearChannel, Universal, etc., etc. Hey, if I was a DJ you would have to pay me to play Jessica Simpson, too. Yeah Yeah Yeahs get 4 out of 5 from David Fricke and Hard-Fi gets 3 out of 5 for CCTV. Arctic Monkeys' debut is filed under "Buy These Now." There is a big story on Pete Doherty that I haven't been able to check out yet and there is a tiny snippet on Audioslave reporting that they just wrapped up the latest album.

In the DOWNLOAD NOW section we find Pearl Jam and Gnarls Barkley scoring 4 out of 5 stars for "World Wide Suicide" and "Crazy," respectively. I am going to try and track down the White Stripes live bootleg they talk about in the same section. Pretty good stuff, might be worth buying or at least a perusal at the magazine stand. As usual, you have to filter through the BS.

MP3: TV on the Radio - Playhouses (phenomenal new track from Return to Cookie Mountain)
MP3: Wolfmother - Mind's Eye

2 comments:

JK said...

Rock Kills Kids, The Whigs? haven't even heard of those two.

NF said...

Yeah, I have to get on top of them. I hate being thwarted by THE MACHINE.