Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers played 'The Holy Bible' & more at Webster Hall (pics, setlist)
Two decades later, Edwards’s psycho-sociopathic vision seems prophetic, but the music surrounding these words is another story, and often one of transcendence…
Manic Street Preachers playing 'The Holy Bible' in full on East Coast tour, including Webster Hall (dates)
Long-running Welsh band Manic Street Preachers released their 12th album, Futurology, last year which went to #2 in the UK and made its way onto a lot of Best of 2014 lists, including NME, MOJO and The Quietus…
UK site Drowned in Sound's Top 50 Albums of 2014
UK music site Drowned in Sound is kinda the British equivalent of Pitchfork, albeit with a very strong community aspect to it. They just published their 50 Favourite Albums of 2014 list and while it contains many of the LPs we’ve been seeing on a lot of these lists, it’s a distinctly not-American point of view…
The Quietus list their Albums Of The Year 2014
Now that it’s December, Best of Lists Season is in full swing. If you’re already tired of seeing ones that have The War on Drugs at the top (or near it), you can always rely on UK website The Quietus to offer up something different…
NME's Top 50 albums & tracks of 2014
It’s the last week of November and we’ve hit Best-of List Season. Especially in the UK where we’ve already seen album lists from Rough Trade, MOJO, Q, and Uncut…
MOJO's Top 50 LPs of 2014
We just posted Q Magazine’s Best of 2014 albums list and now here’s the same from sister publication MOJO. Not only do they share a publisher, but also more than half of same albums appear on both lists…
Q Magazine's Top 50 LPs of 2014: The War on Drugs are #1
Rough Trade were the first out of the gate with year-end lists but now long-running UK monthly music mag Q has just published their end-of-the-year issue (with cover star Ed Sheeran) which includes their Top 50 LPs of 2014…
Flow Festival this weekend in Finland (w/ Royksopp & Robyn, The National, Darkside, Slint, Slowdive, Outkast, more)
After spending three days shooting portraits and other SoundWave tent activities for us at Lollapalooza in Chicago, BrooklynVegan photographer Dominick Mastrangelo took off to Finland for this year’s Flow Festival…
Glastonbury 2014 line-up announced: Arcade Fire, Disclosure, Bryan Ferry, Jack White, Dolly Parton, Elbow, Dexys & more
England’s Glastonbury Festival is pretty much the forefather to all crazy worldwide “20,000 people standing in a field” festivals we have today…
Q Magazine's "50 LPs of 2013" List; Arctic Monkeys top it
Arctic Monkeys @ ACL 2013 (more by Tim Griffin)
Kind of like MOJO‘s laddish slightly younger brother who went to college during ’90s Britpop, UK monthly Q Magazine has time for new music but still pays attention to older artists as well…