Nirvana’s In Utero Audio Book - FREE!

“Gillian G. Gaar, who served as project consultant on the Nirvana box set With the Lights Out, spoke with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, engineer Steve Albini and many more Nirvana insiders while writing her 33 1/3 book on the album — and now you can download the full audiobook for the the first time right here. It’s part of Audible.com’s productions of the 33 1/3 book series about classic, critically acclaimed albums ” (via Rolling Stone.com)

Get it here.

Ra Ra Riot _ The Rhumb Line

Ra Ra Riot released their debut album in August this year, and doing so joined a long line of indie op/punk/rock bands vieing for airplay. Ra Ra Riot’s brand of melody soaked rock means fighting off comparisons to Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire.

The unlikely inclusion Cello and Violin in the bands line up provides not only a point of difference, but also an air of sophistication, and helps punctuate the mood. Emotive passages are often underlined, rhythms are underpinned and melodies are carried by cellist Alexandra Lawn and violinist Rebecca Zeller. 

Album opener, Ghost Under Rocks, sets the tone for the album perfectly and showcases the bands strengths. Ra Ra Riot’s popularity has definately suffered from todays pervasive 3 minute attention span. While their tracks are by no means long or meandering in a prog sense, the subtle light and shade of their melodies rewards repeated listens.

Complete with a Kate Bush cover version, The Rhumb Line is a contender to this years ’slow burner’, to use popular venacular. (I feel dirty. It’s not coming off!)

THINK: Arcade Fire without the Amish, Vampire Weekend without the African overtones.
READ: Interview with Ra Ra Riot
WATCH: Ra Ra Riot - Ukulele Session
BUY: The Rhumb Line at Amazon
 

Guns n’ Roses album ‘Chinese Democracy’, 14 years in the making and almost as many law suits, is being released tomorrow. You can stream the entire thing here.

During Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary tour Billy Corgan treated the crown to awful sound quality, over two hours of their poorest songs to date and finished off the night by having a 10 minute rant, liking the fans to ex-girlfriends ( taking all his money, and not loving him) and not trusting him. I mean, puh-lease.

Billy Corgan = worn out self-abusive circus freak

The Tough Alliance - Neo Violence (Shazam Remix)

Modular’s leaky faucet spproach to marketing continues, with yet another sneak peak of The Bang Gang DJ’s upcoming release ‘D is for Disco, E is for Dancing’.

Enjoy,
G