Unlikely collaborations: The Hives & Cyndi Lauper make a Christmas song!
One of my old favourites, Swedish garage band rockers have teamed up with spokeswoman for girls of the eighties to create what’s in familiar Hives-modesty described as the best holiday song on this side of White Christmas. The track is appropriately titled The Hives & Cyndi Lauper in a Christmas Duel, and can be downloaded [...]
The Boss is working on a dream!
You can now download the titletrack from Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming album, Working On A Dream, for free at iTunes or here (where you can also sign up for his mailing list, which fans of the Boss should do of course). The offer is only good for two days, so better download it as soon as [...]
Is there something you want to ask The Gaslight Anthem?
Remember that interview we did with Socratic a while back? It was so much fun, and turned out so well that I decided to go hunting for some additional bands that would interested in answering a few questions for us. I think it’s safe to say that we got more than we bargained for, because [...]
A Future for Blink-182?
Blink-182 fan sites and internet music journals were set ablaze Wednesday after Mark Hoppus, bass player of +44 and Blink-182, posted a new update on his personal blog concerning the status of Blink-182.
Like mash-ups? Check out Viva La Hova and Death Cab for Hova
I’m generally not a big fan of mash-ups between hiphop and (soft)rock songs, but a project that has mashed up songs from Jay-Z and Coldplay has gotten a lot of attention recently, and it is actually worth listening to. It’s called Viva La Hova, and it combines miscellaneous songs from Jay-Z with Coldplay counterparts in [...]
Do you have a question for Socratic?
Within a couple of days I will be doing an email interview with the guys from the pop-rock band Socratic, and to make this an interactive process for the readers of Silent Sound Waves as well as all the fans of the band out there, we will be including your questions in the interview!
New digital Killers single continues the legacy
The new album from The Killers, Day & Age, is due to release toward the end of the month. It’s first single, “Human,” was released to both digital distributors as well as radio. In my opinion, the song wasn’t quite up to normal Killers par, but was substantial enough to keep my interest.
This past Tuesday, iTunes put [...]
Did you remember to pick up these two gems?
In between the many big releases the past few weeks including new albums from Keane, Copeland, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and The Cure, you just might have missed two of the gems that didn’t get the kind of hype the former did. Luckily I caught them and I’m here to share them with you. [...]
Jack’s Mannequin releases Ghost Over Ground EP
Jack’s Mannequin’s “while we wait” EP (which is what it should have been called) titled Ghost Over Ground was released on iTunes yesterday. It includes the first single from the upcoming album The Glass Passenger entitled The Resolution, and if this is any indication of what is to come on the new album, well then [...]
Travis announce new album titled Ode to J. Smith
UK based pop-band Travis have just announced that they will be releasing a new full length album titled Ode to J. Smith on September 29th this year. The band recently released a three track EP called J. Smith which has been very successful in the UK indie circles, and it features a faster paced and more [...]
