As we've mentioned, 19-year-old Santa Rosa multi-instrumentalist Ryan Schmale approaches That Ghost's fuzzy, spacious pop in a way that reminds us more of vintage garage rockers and Robert Pollard than he does his lo-fi peers. See, for instance, "Shouldn't Leave... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP CXIV: HEAR NEW THAT GHOST, WIN A USB TURNTABLE & ZEPPELIN BIO»
Posted on November 11, 2009 in , (3 comments)
Tags: Javelin | Led Zeppelin | That Ghost
After your dad leaked Them Crooked Vultures' self-titled debut, the band opted to stream the entire collection. It's out officially 11/17 via DGC/Interscope. (Get a load of "Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up.")... CONTINUE READING STREAM THEM CROOKED VULTURES»
Posted on November 10, 2009 (8 comments)
Tags: Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | Grizzly Bear | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
It's about time someone had some pun with Thelonius Monk. "Mind Eraser, No Chaser" isn't the first studio single we've heard from rock-demigod triptych Them Crooked Vultures' self-titled debut -- that'd be "New Fang" -- and it isn't the only... CONTINUE READING NEW THEM CROOKED VULTURES - "MIND ERASER, NO CHASER"»
Posted on November 3, 2009 in (8 comments)
Tags: Cold Cave | Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
You don't have to pack into crammed rock clubs/attend huge festivals/scour YouTube for crap-grade performance clips for tastes of the Led Stone Age Fighters supergroup much longer: Them Crooked Vultures have a self-titled debut out next month, and the studio... CONTINUE READING NEW THEM CROOKED VULTURES - "NEW FANG"»
Posted on October 26, 2009 (34 comments)
Tags: All The Saints | Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
They've come a long way: From being just a couple of scrappy upstarts playing a bunch of unreleased material at the Metro this summer, three practically unknown dudes named John Paul Jones, Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl (along with megastar... CONTINUE READING THEM CROOKED VULTURES @ STUBB'S, AUSTIN 10/1/09»
Posted on October 2, 2009 in , , (6 comments)
Tags: Alain Johannes | Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | The Avett Brothers | Them Crooked Vultures
Following live videos of "Dead End Friends" and "Elephants," here's one for "Caligulove" from the Homme/Grohl/John Paul Jones project captured at Saturday's Lowlands festival in the Netherlands. Not as bombastic as previous samples, but this one's got JPJ on organ,... CONTINUE READING NEW THEM CROOKED VULTURES - "CALIGULOVE" (LIVE AT LOWLANDS)»
Posted on August 25, 2009 in (5 comments)
Tags: Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | Happy Mondays | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
This past weekend the Josh Homme/Dave Grohl/John Paul Jones supergroup Them Crooked Vultures did two festival gigs in Europe, including the "surprise" set which surprised nobody at Belgium's Pukkelpop. We're still waiting on the trio to stop playing coy and... CONTINUE READING NEW THEM CROOKED VULTURES - "ELEPHANTS" (LIVE AT PUKKELPOP FESTIVAL)»
Posted on August 24, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Joshn Homme | Led Zeppelin | Nirvana | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
Josh, Dave, and John Paul didn't make it easy for us to attend their first-ever live show: midnight on a Sunday in Chicago, which happened to be just hours after three days of the muggiest Lollapalooza to date, at the... CONTINUE READING NEW THEM CROOKED VULTURES - "DEAD END FRIENDS" (LIVE IN AMSTERDAM)»
Posted on August 20, 2009 in (10 comments)
Tags: Daft Punk | Dave Grohl | DJ Hero | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Nirvana | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
After three days of extreme sweat and fatigue from running between stages in Grant Park for Lollapalooza (post TK), ordinarily there'd be zero appeal to a midnight Sunday show in an overcapacity rock club without a working air conditioner. But... CONTINUE READING THEM CROOKED VULTURES @ METRO, CHICAGO 8/9/09»
Posted on August 10, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: Alain Johannes | Dave Grohl | Foo Fighters | John Paul Jones | Josh Homme | Led Zeppelin | Queens Of The Stone Age | Them Crooked Vultures
Craig Finn shared vocals with former Arab Strap guitarist Malcolm Middleton on '80s rock radio staple "Run To You" (along with Led Zeppelin's "Your Time Is Gonna Come" and Malcolm's own "Kiss At The Station") in a recent live session... CONTINUE READING THE HOLD STEADY COVER BRYAN ADAMS»
Posted on May 22, 2009 in (11 comments)
Tags: Bryan Adams | Franz Ferdinand | Julian Casablancas | Led Zeppelin | Malcolm Middleton | The Hold Steady | The Strokes
When Brooklynite (and Percussion Lab owner) Praveen Sharma and Portlander Thomas Meluch (aka Kranky's Benoît Pioulard) join forces they're Praveen & Benoit. Praveen creates the arrangements, Benoît's the vocal harmonies. The duo spent more than two years putting together the... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP LXVII: HEAR NEW PRAVEEN & BENOîT, WIN A LED ZEPPELIN BOX SET»
Posted on December 10, 2008 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Girl Talk | Led Zeppelin | Praveen And Benoît
Shazam is useful, but if you're looking for the dorkiest musical iPhone app, check out Ocarina. It allows these kids to sit in a circle and play the recorder intro to "Stairway To Heaven." Bravo, technology.... CONTINUE READING MAKE MUSIC BY BLOWING ON YOUR IPHONE»
Posted on November 10, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Esau Mwamwaya | iPhone | Led Zeppelin | The Decemberists | The Very Best
Earlier this week, everyone agreed that it was a brilliant idea for Pagey, Jonesy, and Bonzo Jr. to tour without Robert Plant. Billboard suggests that "Zeppelin"'s new singer may be Miles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, the rebranded band that formed... CONTINUE READING HAS LED ZEPPELIN CHOSEN ITS NEW SINGER?»
Posted on October 31, 2008 (57 comments)
Tags: Alter Bridge | Creed | Led Zeppelin | Wilco
John Paul Jones confirmed the possibility of a record and tour to BBC, noting that he, Jimmy Page, and Jason Bonham don't want someone who sounds like their regular lead singer. Maybe this guy's looking for a new gig?... CONTINUE READING LED ZEPPELIN LOOKING TO TOUR WITHOUT ROBERT PLANT»
Posted on October 28, 2008 (10 comments)
Tags: Led Zeppelin
Olympics are over, guys. Now that everyone stopped running and swimming so fast we'll probably all go back to remembering how China can be sort of human abuse-y sometimes. But also we will never forget the great stories that came... CONTINUE READING JIMMY PAGE AND LEONA LEWIS SET THE STAGE FOR THE LONDON OLYMPICS WITH "WHOLE LOTTA LOVE" »
Posted on August 25, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: David Beckham | Jimmy Page | Led Zeppelin | Leona Lewis | The Wrens
People in London are flipping their wigs, figuratively and probably literally too, at the news of the Foos show Saturday night in Wembley stadium. Billboard.com reports on This Moment In Rock History: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John... CONTINUE READING THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME ... UNLESS YOU CAN GET ZEP TO COVER IT WITH YOU. THEN IT BECOMES MUCH MORE AWESOME.»
Posted on June 9, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Foo Fighters | Jimmy Page | John Paul Jones | Led Zeppelin
Reprising their flirty "Gone Gone Gone" video last week, the Bonnaroo bound Robert Plant and Alison Krauss smiled and winked through a performance of their big ol', more and more ubiquitous Raising Sand hit "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),"... CONTINUE READING ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS DO RAISING SAND, ZEPPELIN TUNES ON CMT'S CROSSROADS»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Led Zeppelin | Robert Plant
Of course we did a double take when we received the Bonnaroo lineup press release yesterday. But if the AP and the NME (now deleted) and the Chicago Sun Times (see here) had spent more than 30 seconds looking at... CONTINUE READING THE BONNAROO PRESS RELEASES THAT CONFUSED THE MUSIC WORLD»
Posted on February 6, 2008 (15 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Led Zeppelin
How well do you know your Zeppelin? We've been talking about the mighty reunited ones a lot recently, whether for Zeppelin itself or Plant-Krauss combos or oddball cameos in kung-fu bluegrass videos. Don't put away your "Stairway To Heaven" tablature... CONTINUE READING THE MOST ZEPPELIN-Y COMMERCIAL EVER»
Posted on January 11, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Led Zeppelin
Yep, the mighty Zep reunited last night. Since we weren't lucky enough to report on it firsthand, we did the next best thing: asked a friend of a friend to give us the lowdown. From the smattering of reviews we've... CONTINUE READING LED ZEPPELIN @ O2 ARENA, LONDON (UK) 12/10/07»
Posted on December 11, 2007 in , (20 comments)
Tags: Jimmy Page | John Paul Jones | Led Zeppelin | Robert Plant
Krauss and Plant follow up an intimate rendition for Hoda Kotb with this clip for their take on the Everly Brothers' "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)" looking like fools in love, shuffling amid the land of discarded disco balls,... CONTINUE READING NEW ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS VIDEO - "GONE, GONE, GONE" (AND LED ZEPPELIN HEADLINING BONNAROO?)»
Posted on December 3, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Bonnaroo | Led Zeppelin | Robert Plant
For the rock fan that has everything and is looking for new and exciting ways to piss his/her money away, we direct you to Christie's auction house in NYC where you can play your part in a story that's making... CONTINUE READING ROCK SHIRTS IN THE $4,000 OR "NO REALLY IT'S UP TO YOU" VARIETY»
Posted on November 20, 2007 (4 comments)
Tags: Kings Of Leon | Led Zeppelin | Radiohead
Those early morning Today show sessions aren't always worth setting your alarm for, but every once in awhile there's a live collab worth checking (even if it turns out to be a disaster). The most recent in the line of... Today Show'">CONTINUE READING ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUS PERFORM THE EVERLY BROTHERS' "GONE, GONE, GONE" ON THE TODAY SHOW»
Posted on October 24, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Alison Krauss | Led Zeppelin | Robert Plant
For every Led Zep rumour we've posted, there's been twenty we haven't. But today, finally and officially, the reams of dreams of a Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham reformation have come true: The original and surviving Led men will put Jason behind the kit... CONTINUE READING LED ZEPPELIN'S ONE-NIGHT REFORMATION»
Posted on September 12, 2007 (11 comments)
Tags: Arturo O'Farrill | Led Zeppelin | Ra Ra Riot
OK, so the reunion rumor mill didn't pan out, but this is, well, something. Best way to kill time while you wait for the Beatles' catalogue to pop up on your favorite DRM-loving music store? Pay Apple for some Led... CONTINUE READING LED ZEPPELIN JOIN THE ITUNES AGE»
Posted on July 30, 2007 (12 comments)
Tags: Led Zeppelin
