The live television performances of MGMT’s Congratulations tracks are steadily improving, but the crowd still hesitates to applaud at the end of “Brian Eno”, above, and Letterman’s sign-off couldn’t have been more awkward if it were preceded by Andrew VanWyngarden breaking a tiny guitar against his amp and then getting it stuck on his cape [...]

MGMT took Congratulations to SNL last night, and they seem to have somehow managed to make their already challenging new material even less accessible live. The jury is still out on my official numerical opinion of the album, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hum along to “Flash Delirium,” above. However, I’d [...]

Since we already know how I feel about Coldplay, I’ll jump right into this interesting tidbit from the Coldplay.com news section. Roadie #42 (Coldplay’s “mole in the studio”) has been documenting all Coldplay happenings on their website, and in post #46 from yesterday, he writes about Brian Eno’s latest recording experiment: kicking Chris Martin out [...]

Every time I thought of something that should be on here and did a scan…it was on here. Below is Amazon.com’s 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time. PS: It’s Beatle-less, and here’s some interesting theories as to why.
1. Boy by U2
2. Birth Of The Cool (Rudy Van Geld… by Miles [...]

David Byrne and Brian Eno are releasing their second album together since 1981’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. They are offering up a sneak peak of the new record, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, in the form of a free MP3 of the track, “Strange Overtones,” on www.everythingthathappens.com. In case you [...]

Coldplay manager, Dave Holmes, recently spoke to Billboard about the band’s upcoming album, and ominously hinted at some “different” things the band has in store for LP4’s Tour.
“We’re just about finished. They’re in the final mixing. They’ll start mastering, and away we go. I think it’s their best album. They’ve really delivered. It’s a fantastic [...]