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Glasvegas - Glasvegas (Review)
With the release of their self-titled debut album, the group of Scotsmen with the clever name reaped their fair share of critical acclaim. Tonight they are stepping back into the spotlight as they are playing a concert in New York to support the stateside release of their debut album. If you want to know whether [...]
iTunes Music Store finally tossing DRM
While we don’t normally cover this kind of news here at Silent Sound Waves, we feel that this is well worth mentioning. Apple have announced today that they have finally negotiated a deal with the major labels about selling all the music in the iTunes Music Store without any sort of DRM (Digital Rights Management) [...]
Kent releases new song “På Drift?” for free
Swedish rockers, Kent, which we have previously covered several times here at Silent Sound Waves, released a brand new song for free through their website right before Christmas. The new song is called “På Drift?”, and was written specifically to be used in a Swedish commercial against bullying among teenagers. Listen and download the tune, [...]
A new year filled with musical opportunities and discoveries!
We might be a little late on this one, but we want to extend our best of wishes to all of the readers of Silent Sound Waves out there. We hope your holidays were great and that you found all the music you wanted under the tree, and that the first few days of the [...]
Silent Sound Waves Top 20 albums of 2008
We have fought and bickered like kids arguing over a new toy, but with less than 24 hours to go before the new year parades on in and takes over our lives we have finally managed to put together the Silent Sound Waves Top 20 Albums of 2008 list. Read on to see if your [...]
The musical year of 2008 in songs from A to Z
2008 just flew by, and as this is being written a new year is only a few days away from turning the current into history. Hopefully all of your are enjoying your holidays while they last, and as a treat for you we have scoured our playlists and created a this list to reminisce about [...]
A premature look at Manchester Orchestra’s Mean Everything To Nothing
Manchester Orchestra’s sophomore release, Mean Everything To Nothing, is scheduled to be released sometime late in the spring of 2009. It was originally scheduled for March 31st, but according to AbsolutePunk it has, even though it’s officially finished, been pushed back.
I am extremely excited about this record myself, and as a treat to all the [...]
Listen to The All-American Rejects’ new album - for free!
The All-American Rejects‘ third studio album, When The World Comes Down, is being released today, and as a special treat to the fans you the rejects are letting us stream the album in its entirety off of their MySpace profile. It’ll only be available in full today, so if you want a free preview of [...]
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux (Review)
Ever since the immense success of their second full length album, From Under The Cork Tree, which went double platinum, the guys from Fall Out Boy and in particular lyricist and bassist Pete Wentz have served as icons of this decade’s rejuvenation of the pop genre. Your mothers-in-law’s dream boys as fronted by Backstreet Boys [...]
