UK mega-band Coldplay have reported their fifth album is almost finished with plans to release it by the end of the year. The Grammy Award-winning four-piece recently spent two months in an abandoned church working on the follow-up to 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, which spent four weeks at #1 [...]
iTunes will be the first to show the world the new Gorillaz for On Melancholy Hill video on June 15 from the guys album Plastic Beach. For a preview of the video check out the below… could that be the real Noodle (as opposed to Cyborg Noodle) under that mask? Looks like her work! Plastic [...]
Next time I’m in an argument, I shall simply punch the air and declare: Honestly, this is one of the most visually stunning and euphoric music videos. For all the non-believers out there… this is the antidote. You MUST watch it in HD on full screen. If you are inspired to be that amazing kid [...]
Check out this super fun teaser for Katy Perry’s California Gurls feat. Snoop Dogg. It’s cupcake-alicious and outrageously colourful – so very Katy.
Robbie Williams previews a new fully comprehensive 2 CD greatest hits collection with a brand new single ‘shame’, co-written and performed with Gary Barlow. The single will be released on virgin records on October 4. ”Shame” is taken from Robbie’s forthcoming greatest hits collection “in and out of consciousness – the greatest hits 1990 [...]
Picking up the new Chemical Brothers CD Further you instantly know from the stunning artwork that you’re in for something special. Electronic music is about so much more than just music. Masters of the genre like The Chemical Brothers know the phenomenal power of the combined audio/visual experience and they cleverly use both to envelop, [...]
The release date for IRON MAIDEN’S highly anticipated new studio album THE FINAL FRONTIER is now confirmed for Monday 16th August. The new album artwork has just been unveiled on their website www.ironmaiden.com and was illustrated by Melvyn Grant. To mark the occasion, the band have made special arrangements for one new album track ‘EL DORADO’ [...]
Arizona… You brought down the thunder. When Zack de la Rocha, Massive Attack, and Cypress Hill call for a boycott and the President of the United States doesn’t condemn the action, you’re in for trouble. If you’re not across US politics right now, Arizona’s state legislature and Governor Jan Brewer have recently signed bill SB [...]
You may have heard about Cyborg Noodle and witnessed her getting shot in the Stylo video and short circuiting but what’s the story and how was she made? When Murdoc decided to it was time to re-assemble the Gorillaz band to record Plastic Beach, Noodle was gone, feared killed in the catastrophe epic El Manana [...]
Australian sensations BIRDS OF TOKYO are starting to make an impact in New Zealand and to get things rolling their first single ‘The Saddest Thing I Know’ will be available as a FREE download from therock.net.nz today until Thursday 3rd June. Recorded as adventurously as it was written, creating the new album has already taken [...]
TWO-TIME GRAMMY-NOMINATED POP SUPERSTAR LAUNCHES THE SIZZLING ANTHEM “CALIFORNIA GURLS”! EMI RECORDS WILL RELEASE PERRY’S NEW ALBUM, TEENAGE DREAM, ON AUGUST 30TH Katy Perry returns to set airwaves ablaze with a scorching brand-new single “California Gurls,” which ignited radio with a surprise release on May 10. The single is now available for sale digitally [...]
Creative Touring & 95bFM proudly present… Boston’s Passion Pit are back after a riotous start to the year as part of the Big Day Out line-up. What began as a Valentine’s Day gift for a girlfriend has now become a gift to the masses with this boiling pot of giddy, electronic, indie pop causing [...]
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s Dark Night Of The Soul will be released on 12th July Dark Night Of The Soul is an album by audio auteur Danger Mouse and the already much-missed Sparklehorse. The record sees the pair joined by the following remarkable roll call of guests: The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys, Jason Lytle, Julian [...]
BIRDS OF TOKYO “The Saddest Thing I Know” Tour with special guests CLAP CLAP RIOT & THE EARLY BIRDS Wednesday 2nd June 2010: THE KINGS ARMS TAVERN, Auckland NZ TICKETS ON SALE TUESDAY 27th APRIL 2010 Tickets from www.ticketmaster.co.nz, Ticketmaster Outlets or Tel: 0800 111 999 It has been an epic journey, yielding [...]
Gorillaz closed this year’s Coachella and the reviews have of course been incredible! Murdoc Niccals, 2D and Cyborg Noodle were supported by real life artists such as Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, Little Dragon, De La Soul, Bobby Womack and of course mastermind Damon Albarn. image courtesy of pedestrianrex BOY OH BOY how [...]
Operator Please don’t mind being in your face… in fact that’s that whole point this week, really. We’re ramping up for a big Gloves album release this Friday, and we’ve all banded together to make sure you can’t escape the O.P. synth-pop number they’re unleashing on the world. If you’ve somehow missed the album so [...]
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Hot on the success of touring Hawaii and the USA playing to over 20,000 people at festivals, Katchafire are bringing it back to where it all started and will hit the road for a full NZ tour at the end of May. Still one of New Zealand’s most loved bands, Katchafire have come a long [...]
THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION OFFER FANS THE CHANCE TO HEAR SONGS FROM THEIR NEW ALBUM BEFORE RELEASE DATE… Starting today, The Phoenix Foundation is giving their fans the chance to listen to selected tracks from their new album Buffalo before its release date next Monday 26 April. bNet radio will feature a new track from [...]
James Murphy + Spike Jonze. It was an inevitable and long overdue combination of musical + directorial talent. What wasn’t inevitable however, was a cohort of Evil (and possibly drunk) Panduhs crash-tackling Murphy, pimping him up in a mini-dress and makeup, and binding him to his compatriots with duct tape. Once you’ve had the wits [...]
If you’ve not heard today’s incredible 10th anniversary Splendour In the Grass lineup, have you not a computer / radio / phone / ears / eyes???? OK so camping tickets are $450 (ouch), but we’ve done the math & it turns that makes each set $5.55… Five and half bucks to heard the new LCD [...]
Alright, we acknowledge this has SFA to do with music or The In Sound… However the ladies in the office (& one lad from our sales team) have just rediscovered Old Spice. (It’s 7.2 million views old but we’re music geeks who spend our days on YouTube Music rather than noticing Superbowl commercials) As a [...]
Miami Horror have a announced a May/June tour AND new single titled Moon Theory and it’s HOT. Missed it? you can hear it here: AND get online now at The In Song and you can pre-order Moon Theory and get a free, unreleased, remix from Perth maestro Shazam of their 1st single which EVERYONE loves [...]
Sign up to the Gorillaz G – Club for 12months, which will set you back under $50, and you get special stuff like access to play some of the game Escape From Plastic Beach, a model of the car used in the Stylo video (most of the guys in our office signed up for that [...]
After a sweltering and sticky 36 degree day, what’s to do but stand in an overheated crowded room with 1,500 excitable punters? If there’s any band worth seeing under these circumstances, it’s the ever-charming Angus & Julia Stone… with their beachy dreamy acoustic folk, local roots, and a two-week stint at #1 with their album [...]
OK there’s nothing particularly Easter-y about Hot Chip’s magnificent video for I Feel Better – it’s just very close to my heart, having been subjected to Blue (All Rise!) videos during my teenage years (my sister is an unrepentant fan). So it’s very cathartic to watch four eerily similarly clad and choreographed singers obliterated with [...]
The excitement for the new LCD Soundystem album in our building is palpable… can you feel it simmering away!? Ever since 2007’s seminal album Sound Of Silver and its compatriots 45:33 and 45:33 Remixes, we have been waiting with baited breath to get our hands on new tunes from Mr James Murphy of DFA. How [...]
Off the back of their #1 album Plastic Beach and the amazing Stylo video featuring Bruce Willis, the Gorillaz have released a game Escape to Plastic Beach. It’s a multi-level, multi-format game that takes you on a journey to the Gorillaz headquarters on Plastic Beach. The game also includes an MP3 download of the single [...]
So, this week we had the MGMT album leak (ed: it sounds like The Kinks to me) but let’s continue to dwell on their magical hit song that is Time To Pretend. That song has legs. Jónsi, my current musical fixation, gave me another reason to hit play over and over again when he did [...]
Music Matters is a collective of people across the music industry, including artists, retailers, songwriters, labels and managers, getting together to remind everyone of the significance and value of music in our lives. Life just isn’t worth living without it and we need to keep the flame burning! They have commissioned some incredible film-makers across [...]
It’s all been very quiet on The Cat Empire front of late… which is highly unusual. These guys are incessantly touring the planet and have played live for more Australians than any other band this decade… So where have they (and their trademark horns, lengthy key solos, scratched decks, and constant blog posts about keggers [...]
Sometimes when I like a song soooo much, I have to ration my listening, lest I give myself overkill. Currently somewhere between uncontrollable high rotation and self-imposed limited rations is Jónsi’s newest single Go Do. It’s coming from the Sigur Rós’ lead singer’s upcoming solo album Go. The songs on Go are playful, energetic, dramatic [...]
Australia was the first country in the world to announce a #1 album for Gorillaz Plastic Beach. I think that’s because we have great taste! Set to be the big single on the album according to numerous reviews, here’s a video for Superfast Jellyfish. Is that what happens when you stand too close to the [...]
TheInSound has been keeping you updated on Adam’s recovery from cancer treatment, which last year resulted in the Beastie’s delaying the release of their studio album Hot Sauce Committee until he returned to full health. In a recent Rolling Stone interview Yauch let us in on some more: He’s feeling significantly better and “getting my [...]
Erika performed for the first time on TV since she took home the award from It Takes Two. She chatted to the Morning Show’s Larry and Kylie about the songwriting process, too many cups of tea, and appropriate performance footwear. (Have to say, very cool boots…) And in fact, Erika wore the v same Roc [...]
The boys from JET performed at this years Winter Olympics to a massive crowd in what looks like very cold conditions. Here’s their new single Seventeen which Australian radio are currently loving! Nice scarves boys! Seventeen from Shaka Rock is out now on iTunes.
There is something really special about finding an audio/visual partnership that just….. works… Check out this stunning piece of footage from Sydney-based director Kiku Ohe for Witchery’s Autumn/Winter 2010 Collection. I am sure that you will agree that this mini-movie utterly transports you to another romantic world for a blissful 2 minutes and 24 seconds. [...]
Urgent. Infectious. Energised. That’s how Ben Harper & Relentless7’s live performance has been characterised… If you didn’t have the chance to check them out at last years Bluesfest or with Pearl Jam and Liam Finn, or if you did and loved them, check this out: They are releasing a CD/DVD, out April 2, filmed during [...]
If you have been near a radio of TV this week you would have heard Erika out and about promoting her new single Kingdom and everyone falling in love with her… Last week she appeared on the 7PM Project: And she’s given us listen a new track which appears on her iTunes EP called Mind [...]
Last week we were fortunate enough to take David Guetta around Sydney, introducing him the Sunrise crew and one giant egg… but eventually David had to head out on the town for himself – and how! This Saturday, David appeared at two of the world’s biggest parties: the official Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras [...]
Jamie T takes home NME’s Best Solo Artist for the 2nd time for his Kings & Queens album which features Triple J hits Sticks n’ Stones and Chaka Demus. Jamie’s brilliant performance at Falls Festival is on Live At The Wireless tonight at 8pm EST on triple j. Tune in or stream it online at [...]
We’re based in Sydney Australia, and although we cherish the beaches, sun, and the beloved Annandale Hotel, sometimes it’s frustrating to know that some of the best gigs are happening over the other side of the world. That’s where the interwebz comes into play. This weekend, the magical Bird And The Bee will perform songs [...]
A few of us here at EMI have had the absolute pleasure of working with David Guetta this week. Not only is he a superstar DJ who has played to millions of party-goers, sold millions of albums (over 4 records), worked with stars like AKON, Kelly Rowland, Black Eyed Peas, Kid Cudi and Queen of Pop Madonna [...]
FULL PLASTIC BEACH ALBUM STREAM HERE! Let us know what you think… The album is in stores tomorrow but beat the rest of them and pre-ordered now on iTunes: Special Edition from iTunes. Standard Edition from iTunes.
I do love an expensive Hype Williams-directed Kanye West video. It’s pretty awesome in Katy Perry’s Walking Up in Vegas that they closed down the Vegas strip for a cruise in the yellow Ferrari. And, hello, Gorillaz just drove off a cliff after a desert drag race with Bruce Willis! Epic. But, I think this week [...]
Last week, the honey-voiced Angus and Julia Stone performed a beautiful acoustic version of And The Boys in the Nova Melbourne studios. It’s called an acoustic version, but honestly this track doesn’t come much more stripped back than on the album. It’s deliciously simple: The brother & sister duo also chatted to Nova’s Merrick, Dools [...]
There’s a certain stench in the air. Some dark little critter oozing and swirling in the oily waters. Sounds, like a faded orchestra, emanating from dead hollow shells. A stinky, slinky snake made of potent gases, slithering on its way through the concrete jungle of life. THE FUTURE. It’s upon us. It’s nigh. It’s leering [...]
Things to look forward to in 2010: HAL-9000 being transformed into a non-corporeal, energy-based life-form; Lisa Simpson’s wedding; A NEW COLDPLAY ALBUM! We reported late last year that Coldplay were already back in the studio after ’08’s Viva La Vida…, and it turns out they’re churning the tunes out like crazy! Frontman Chris Martin claims [...]
It’s getting super exciting with the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach out NEXT FRIDAY March 5!!!! They’ve posted a new song online called ‘Superfast Jellyfish’ featuring Gruff Rhys and De La Soul at www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UtbrbsrjY AND they’ve announced the first video from the new album Stylo will premiere on YouTube at 4pm next Tuesday. Mighty Murdoc remembers, [...]
Spoon’s video for Written In Reverse (from the new album Transference) is doing my head in… are they playing in a studio fitted out with mirrors a la Arcade Fire photo shoots or is it simply cinematic trickery?? The video was directed by the amazing Danny Clinch, who is usually makes a crust as a [...]
JET are releasing their new single Seventeen in Australia first. Personally my favourite track of their album Shaka Rock. Chris Cester, JET’s drummer and singer (how he does both at once is beyond me!) told us about the writing of this song: Shaka Rock is out now.
The 4th single from the rap-pop motormouth who loves to tell a story shows a softer side to this British lad who proves he can sing and write beautiful lyricsIf you thought you knew Jamie T take a listen to Emily’s Heart from Kings & Queens. It also comes with a super sweet video featuring [...]
Our friends over at Moshcam have a vertiable treasure trove of concerts on their site. And, they have damn fine taste, we might add. The Decemberists first ever headline show in Australia was filmed for posterity on January 19th at Sydney’s Metro Theatre and is now live on Moshcam for your midday or midnight Decemberists [...]
This is RAD. Faith No More opening up Chinese Arithmetic with Lily Allen’s Fuck You – live at the Hurricane Festival at Scheeßel in Germany. In Wes’s (of Wes’s Music Soapbox fame) immortal words: “One of the greatest band that ever was, and greatest singers of our generation.”
Man, TV is just getting crazy. I love it. Who would’ve ever thought that Alex James from Blur would be singing Opera on a reality TV show with Meatloaf as the judge??? // < ![CDATA[ AKPC_IDS += "7818,"; // ]]>
Inevitably, our Friday afternoon / weekend-beer-anticipation playlist starts out with a wee bit of Depeche Mode. It’s an itch we just have to scratch, and this week we thought we’d share the Depeche love: 1987’s Never Let Me Down Again has two music videos, both directed by maestro Anton Corbijn. The long version, from Strange [...]
What’s the buzz around the office today? “How awesome was the OK Go show last night!?” If you are reading this OK Go peeps, let me say I love the albums and I adore the videos, but the live experience has blown me away and it was such a privilege to experience that in the [...]
Operator Please kicked off what will be a MASSIVE year for the band with a secret show last night at the “Never Land Bar” on the Gold Coast. As you can tell it wasn’t a secret for long as the place was packed and going off to their new tunes from their upcoming album Gloves which [...]
And the saga continues… As we told you a little while back, über-cool genre-straddler & member of the talented Knowles clan, Solange, did a cover of the stunning stunning amazing beautiful AWESOME track Stillness Is The Move by the equally stunning stunning amazing beautiful AWESOME Dirty Projectors! And so the whole indie world did rejoice, [...]
Stylo, which has held the top position on Triple J for the last few weeks has now been remixed by Alex Metric which I heard this morning on the Js… it’s a great version: Also here’s the very first peek at the video… wonder who’s behind the wheel!? Stylo from the Gorillaz new album Plastic [...]
I know there are alot of incredible songs and uniting of artists around the globe for “Artists for Peace and Justice Haiti Relief” to raise much needed funds for Haiti, but I just had to bring your attention to Ben Harper’s incredible cover of Bruce Springsteen My Father’s House. Here’s the video performed live at [...]
There have been videos, interviews, and whispers and radio shows from the Gorillaz but to date no one has sited them… at last it looks like someone’s found Murdoc. Looks like his time on the wagon has passed! Running off to exotic isles with champagne & suitcases of cash isn’t the only thing keeping Murdoc [...]
Erika’s new single Kingdom is released on digitally today and her video premiere’s on who.com – Check it out below! To get the single Kingdom on iTunes, click here.
Hands up who has been waiting for a new Yeasayer album since the stereo died down after spinning 2007/8’s magnificent middle-eastern-infused-brain-melter All Hour Cymbals for the first time? “More tunes!” we said… “More tunes now!” It’s been a torturous wait, but we were richly awarded late last year when Yeasayer delivered Ambling Alp, a very [...]
Disco-glam Alison Goldfrapp is back after her 2008 LSD-laced folk trip in the woods, and she is ready to party… on a rocket. The first track we’ve heard from Goldfrapp’s (remember, they’re a duo) upcoming album Head First is the glittery disco number Rocket – which is streaming from their myspace as we speak. Don’t [...]
Since Operator Please are editing their video for Logic right this minute, you really oughtta know the tune. Fortunately enough, the Operator Please team from the Gold Coast (who love to give you handwritten notes in class) are giving Logic away free from their website! The first taste of the upcoming album Gloves is a [...]
That got your attention! Ben Harper & Relentless7’s new video for Lay There and Hate Me premiered on playboy.com… when you check it out you’ll understand why.
It’s been a massive week for the angelic-voiced sweethearts of electro-pop Hot Chip… They’ve performed live with The Roots on Jimmy Fallon, globally broadcast a show live from NYC, and their new album One Life Stand finally burst out of back rooms and onto shelves in record stores… but if you need an extra prod [...]
As the year starts, I debate new music with my peers as I’ve done many years before: “HOW ON EARTH IS THERE GOING TO BE A NEW SOUND THIS YEAR?” one voice says. “I WONDER WHAT IT’LL LOOK LIKE?” another voice replies. “AND PLEASE GOD DON’T LET IT START WITH GA GA ANYTHING.” I laugh [...]
So who procrastinated for half of Monday watching the entire Grammy’s pre-telecast online? If you had the stamina for the full broadcast, you would have found out in real-time that our lovely local chap Keith Urban swooped up the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Sweet Thing from his 2009 album Defying Gravity. [...]
Confession. I share my birthday with Laura Marling (b. Feb 1, 1990). But I was born in a decade that was neither the 1990s nor the 80s. This makes me feel a bit unaccomplished compared to my fellow February first-er. Especially upon the news that Miss Marling is not releasing one album this year but [...]
Robbie Williams performed Morning Sun, one of my faves off the new album Reality Killed The Video Star, at the NRJ Awards in France …where he also took home the award for “Best International Male” presented by Jean Paul Gautier and the stunning Dita Von Teese… those French know how to do it don’t they!? [...]
If you’ve been watching SBS of late you would have heard a familiar voice in the Big Love promo running at the moment, yes that’s our very own Julia Stone singing For You from Angus & Julia Stone’s new album Down The Way due out March. The guys will also kick off a national tour [...]
Make sure you follow the often dark but very funny Gorillaz frontman Murdoc on http://twitter.com/MurdocGorillazLoving tweets like: Late congratulations to my nephew Russell Brand and my former squeeze Ms. Perry! Keep it in the family eh, Russ?! Mmmmmm… 6:56 AM Jan 16th Had a dream in which I was bumming off ‘Su Bo’ at the [...]
Welcome to The Land Down Wonder… a parallel universe full of chooooons! Stop short of the Land Down Under, press play, and jump down the rabbit hole – and you’ll find yourself in a world of indescribable emotions brought on by lovely phonics and super sonics. Yes, the passage to this place is triggered by [...]
Who’s up for a big old awards party? The esteemed Brit Awards are celebrating their 30th on Tues Feb 16 and we’ve just received the nominations which were picked out by the 1,000 strong BRITs Academy. The lovely and tenacious Ms Lily Allen (currently in Oz!) is top of the pile, with three noms for [...]
The Cat Empire have been braving wintry snows on tour in North America since mid November. Whilst on tour they debuted a new track and declared they are working on a new album. Check out their goofy tour-life footage and live performance of ?Karma? – the sound is live and direct from the mixing desk [...]
This incredibly stunning promo for the SyFy TV channel (formerly ye olde Sci Fi Channel) is soundtracked by Goldfrapp’s fantastical sparkling tune Happiness. The promo is called House of Imagination and has a stellar crew: Director: Brett Foraker Director of Photography: Larry Fong (300, Watchmen) Post House: Moving Picture Company (HP, Narnia, X-Men, Bond) Main [...]
Don’t tell me this isn’t the coolest thing you’ve ever seen… The so-Frenchy-so-chique electronic duo AIR have created some seriously special merch for their Love 2 album tour (so far just the US and Europe ). One of them is this cut/fold/glue paper miniature of their real studio – complete with Persian rugs!
Whilst at Avatar Studios recording his upcoming album Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You, Lightspeed Champion (AKA Dev Hynes of the Test Icicles ) recorded live versions of several tracks – which he’ll be be making available for you to download over the next four weeks. In classic Lightspeed style the kickoff is an [...]
Dear Moshcam, Thankyou for providing the full 88 minute freakin’ awesome set from JET, live from the Metro Theatre on December 4 last year. I know what I’ll be rocking out to instead of watching the telly tonight. Much love, The In Sound. Set list: Rip It Up Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is [...]
New year. New tunes. New ROCK. I don’t have words to describe the sheer delight this album will be bringing to my neighbours at 3am. We’ve just received the new Airbourne album artwork for No Guts, No Glory – and from the road-train and marching factory workers, to the Explorer guitar and scantily clad young lass, we [...]
Snoop Dogg has come along way indeed and the benchmark for the hip-hop elite has just been set with Snoop baking special green brownies with Martha Stewart. Martha and Snoop rhyme and whisk their way through the segment, with Snoop confused by the colour of vanilla, taking about baking Egg Mcmuffins and encouraging Martha throughout [...]
Those crafty, well-choreographed boys from OK Go have offered up a very special MP3 over at NME.com ahead of their February release of the album Of the Colour of the Blue Sky. Passion Pit have remixed the album track ‘This Too Shall Pass’ with a really light touch and something slightly wistful. In other words, this isn’t your [...]
God bless those Coldplay fellas, they are having an ‘End of Decade Clearout Sale’ to help raise money for the charity Kids Company. From December 17 to December 31 on eBay the band will sell everything from instruments and stage equipment, to costumes from the ‘Viva La Vida’ tour, to signed platinum discs, posters and much more… [...]
Holy smoke, this video is A-mazing!!! We Want War is the bombastic, epic (read seven minute) new single from These New Puritans’ forthcoming brilliant new album Hidden, out January 18. Crazy video, crazy song and played LOUD, it’s like some indie industrial orchestral aural attack with BIG DRUMS and BIG SWORDS! Yes peeps, BIG FREAKING DRUMS – [...]
I’ve watched Keith Urban’s musical career from almost the start. From the early Tamworth Star Maker win in 1990 to his first album, his release as part of The Ranch and then the solo albums that followed. I’ve been lucky enough to see his career go from strength to strength in the live arena as well. In Brisbane [...]
After returning to the stage for the first time in three years to perform Bodies, Robbie Williams revisited X-Factor this week to perform a duet with Robbie’s declared favourite finalist Olly Murs to perform Angels… always a winner. The pair did the crowd proud – bro-hugs, pyrotechnics, crowd-chanting, and two handsome chaps in suits. When in Australia [...]
It’s about time for another bleak and slightly disturbing cinematic epic in the vein of The Proposition and Jesse James… and this calls for none other than the Kings of Audio Menace: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The Road is the tale of a father and son’s survival and journey across a barren, post-apocalyptic (and sometimes cannibalistic and [...]
The winners of the Emmy Awards were announced yesterday, and apart from Flight Of The Conchords walking away empty handed after their 5 nominations, and most of the same US shows predictably winning the same awards all over again, the overall air of the show and it’s future seemed to be one of impending doom. [...]
It seems each year as soon as there is a whiff of summer in the air, the international tours for the upcoming months start rolling in thick and fast. And the last couple of weeks have been no exception for ticket sales – it’s time to sacrifice food and petrol money for concert tickets! [...]
The winner of the prestigious and often controversial Mercury Prize were finally announced in the UK last week, and true to form, this years announcement was no exception in going against the odds! Despite English betting shop William Hill placing 6/1 odds on favorites for our favorite girl Natasha Khan – or Bat For Lashes [...]
Welcome to the bFM Beatles competition page. This is where you can upload a demo of your band for everyone to hear and to vote for your favorite demo. The demo that wins will get to play at the bFM Beatles tribute night along with some of the best new bands in New Zealand. Uploading [...]
The good folks at Domino Records are giving away a track from the forthcoming Lou Barlow album ‘Goodnight Unknown’. Hooraay! In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadoh’s classic albums. But as the brilliant new Goodnight Unknown illustrates, he’s hardly [...]
Yes, supergroups are back ! Monsters Of Folk are Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), M Ward, and Mike Mogis. Yes that’s one hell of a line up, and from what we’ve heard, it’s going to be one hell of an album. The album will be available in September, but you won’t [...]
The Beastie Boys have been forced to postpone the release of their new album Hot Sauce Committe PT1 and their tour plans due to illness. Adam Yauch of the band has annouced via video on the band’s website, that he has a tumour in a salivary gland. Yauch, better known as MCA, said he felt [...]
The new David Guetta single ‘When Love Takes Over’ is taking the world by storm! The guest list for the new album reads like a who’s who of modern urban pop. Appearing on the album are Akon, Will I Am, Kid Cudi, Estelle, Novel and Kelly Rowland. Kelly Rowland features on the several of the [...]
Long awaited and finally here, we are very proud and excited to give you the first taste of the new Salmonella Dub album, due to drop in September. Freak Local is both a rallying call and a statement of intent. Let your freak flag fly and get Freaky in your locality now! Freak Local features [...]
I sit here rejoicing. Firstly in the supreme musical ability of The Dave Matthews Band, who are without doubt the greatest live act on the face of the planet. With each performance standing in the realms of virtuoso, and the new album Big Whiskey And The Groo Grux King is a very proud addition to [...]
I’ve just noticed I’m about to post about yet another band beginning with A! That’s three today! I’ve just been lucky enough to have a listen to the new Alice In Chains album Black Gives Way To Blue and it’s immense! It’s Huge, It a Monster, it rocks like a bastard! It’s new and at [...]
Arctic Monkeys + Josh Homme = Greatness in my book. That’s just what you get on the new Arctic Monkeys single Crying Lightning. Produced by Homme in the Mojave Desert and James Ford in New York, the new single is the Arctic Monkeys turned up to 11, but with all the trademark AM tricks still [...]
Air have made their new single Do The Joy available for free on their website. All you have to do is sign up for their mailing list and it’s yours. Air release their new album Love 2 in October, it’s the first album to be recorded in their Atlas studio. See below for the sign [...]
When Paul Dempsey began work on his solo album, he made a concerted effort to do things differently from his usual way of recording with his band, Something For Kate. So he retreated to his home studio in the New South Wales Central Coast with producer Wayne Connolly. Over the months of solitude they have [...]
Here’s the video for the wonderful first single from Dirty Projectors’ album Bitte Orca -‘Stillness Is The Move’. The video features all manner of wildlife including Llamas and huskies! Bitte Orca is the band’s fifth album, previous releases include a concept album about Don Henley of the Eagles and an album of Black Flag cover [...]
Yipee! Alice In Chains are back with a new singer, William DuVall , and new album, Black Gives Way To Blue due for release in September! If that’s not reason enough for rock based excitement, you can get hold of a track from the album for free by visiting the band’s website and signing up [...]
As far as we can tell, Jens Lekman is the first musician to contract the H1N1 virus [commonly referred to as Swine Flue].He was returning from South America when he became ill. He is currently recovering at home in Sweden. Check out his blog for he thoughts on what sounds like a hellish flight home. [...]
The Beastie Boys are back in action this September with their new album Hot Sauce Committee pt 1. Although we’ve yet to hear the album in full, we have heard the single ‘Lee Majors Come Again’ and it’s brilliant!! Check out this footage of the band performing with Nas at Bonnaroo, more info coming soon! [...]
Thank you to everyone who sent us demos via the Drop Box, it’s been a revelation! There’s a lot of talented people out there ! So far there have been a number of stand outs, but this song caught our attention on first listen-always a good sign! Mile High are from Auckland and have been [...]
It’s not big and clever to swear, but Lily Allen’s video for F#@k You from her new album It’s Not Me, It You is all for a good cause. F#@k You is Lily’s anti – homophobia anthem, the video is fantastic and sees Lily in various exotic locations , giving folks the finger…horaah!
In the first of a short series, we present to you songs we think should have been massive hits, but alas were not. First off is the mysterious and very talented Sonny J. Can’t Stop Moving is a little gem that we all adored in the office. The video is very cool too. Check it [...]
Blur have been preparing for their forthcoming Hyde Park appearances with some low key gigs, including one in Colchester at the Railway Museum and to 150 people at Rough Trade records in London. You can see the band rehearsing on the fabulous Blur widget below, as well as watching videos and listening to tracks from [...]
….Ane Brun I stumbled upon Ane on E Music. Further investigation revealed three back catalogue studio albums and what I have to say is one of the best live album I have ever heard. Her voice, while not for everyone I guess, touched something deep within me. [isn’t that how it always happens ?] Ane [...]
OK, so it’s not really a shock at all that the video for the brilliant new Animal Collective single Summertime Clothes is a freaky affair. When you look at the videos for previous songs like Peacebone or Water Curses they have a pretty good track record of strangeness. Summertime Clothes is Directed by Danny Perez [...]
Depeche Mode resumed their Tour Of The Universe last week in Leipzig. The tour had ground to a premature halt after singer Dave Gahan was diagnosed with a low grade malignant tumour in his bladder. Twelve shows were cancelled or postponed as a result of Gahan’s illness.Gahan said of his return: “I’m grateful to the [...]
Here at The In Sound central, we were heart – warmed, nay uplifted, to hear how well the Fat Freddy’s Drop new album Dr Boondigga & The Big BW had done upon it’s release last week. Fans in their droves stepped out to buy the band’s second studio album, the much anticipated follow up to [...]
Well since you’ve all been good boys and girls, now it’s time to watch some television. Moby TV in fact, in the form of some ‘blips’ from the forthcoming album ‘Wait For Me’. Moby will be releasing blips for each track from the album in the run in to the album’s release on 29th June. [...]
So here’s our first look at the Beatles Rock Band game in the form of a spiffing trailer. Looks like the overdraft in the Steve household will be increasing on the 9th of September!!! Personally, I’ll be preparing for the game by having a ‘bed-in’ buying some paisley shirts, getting it together in the country [...]
Those crazy monkeys from the Arctic are back!!! On the 24th August 2009 we will see the arrival of their third album produced by Josh Homme in the Mojave Desert and in Los Angeles, and James Ford in Brooklyn. The album is yet to be named, but it will be packed with loads of (10 to [...]
Like many people I’ve been hanging out to hear the new album by Ben Harper not because I’m a massive fan of Ben, he’s got some good songs but some of his other stuff I found to be a little languid and a bit self indulgent, but because it was a new way musically for [...]
Click on the Empire Of The Sun widget below to hear tracks from the album, download EOTS masks and upload photos of yourself wearing them. Make yourself look like our glorious leaders Emperor Steele and Lord littlemore, become at one with the Army Of The Sun!
To paraphrase the man himself Jesus, Is this Iggy? Hell yes it is and quite impressive it is too! The Iggster has taken a jazz turn on his new album Preliminaires.The album was inspired by French author Michel Houllebecq’s novel ‘The Possibility Of An Island’. Here’s Iggy talking about how the album came to be [...]
I’ve never really been a huge fan of Smashing Pumpkins, although I do respect the musical stylings of anyone who is, as well as the success of their music, I like to think I’m still young enough for Cheap Trick to be before my time, I only know of one Fountains of Wayne song and [...]
I have been blown away by the new Placebo single For What It’s Worth. it’s been a while since we heard from them, but it’s been worth the wait. Apparently the album is a killer, although I hear the rest of the album sounds nothing like single..hmmmmm ? The album will be the first to [...]
Raised by wolves in the Alaskan tundra, the little Big Man relocated to New Zealand at the tender age of 147… The exact identity of the Big Man will remain a secret for the time being, but rest assured all will be revealed in the fullness of time. In the mean time, check out the [...]
Whoaaa………! Check out this video for a track from the new Jet album Shaka Rock, due in August. The track is K.I.A. [Killed In Action], is a riff fest with top sing along chorus Watch out for more Jet goodness here very soon. WARNING- It’s graphic kiddies!
They say a day’s a long time in Rock N Roll, however it took Doves almost five years to complete their epic new album Kingdom Of Rust and that’s a lot of days. Doves are office favorites here, so we’re a bit biased, but you decide-check out the video for the first single Kingdom Of [...]
Our office was rocking to the genius sound of Hockey this week. From from Portland Oregon, Hockey are just about the best thing we have heard all year. Their debut single Too Fake will be hitting the airwaves like a pop tsunami very shortly…we guarantee it! Here’s the new single Too Fake and the accompanying [...]
We’re not massive metal heads here in the office (well most of us aren’t anyway) but we were treated to a preview of the Iron Maiden Flight 666 doco a couple of months ago. What a revelation it was. The band is so down to earth and so normal it’s unbelievable. Since they’ve been doing [...]
