led zeppelin

Be the first to comment

Free Music: Them Crooked Vultures New CD Giveaway

Published November 10th, 2009 by Karen
Josh Homme
Creative Commons License photo credit: wonker

As though Them Crooked Vultures weren’t already on track to become the most well-regarded and beloved supergroup in recent memory (sorry, Monsters of Folk), the band has just offered already rabid fans another big treat: free music.

(POLL: New: Them Crooked Vultures-Best Supergroup Ever?)

Sure, the band has been slowly leaking tracks from its upcoming self-titled debut album for months, but today the band beat online hacks to the punch by giving away its own album—the entire album-online for free.

The album goes on sale 11/17, but you can snag all 13 tracks, and tour info, below: Continue reading »

Be the first to comment

NYC Halloween: Weekend Concerts

Published October 30th, 2009 by Karen
Hang In There Kong: 09/10/06
Creative Commons License photo credit: kiwanja

Halloween is here!

Now that you’re all dressed up, where are you going to go?
As always, we suggest checking out some concerts around NYC!

See what kind of rock’n’roll fun we’ve dug up for your wild weekend!

Plus, if you’re looking for a last-minute costume idea, we’ve got you covered with Top 10: Easy Halloween Costumes with a Music Theme.

Now, for those creepy weekend concerts: Continue reading »

"How can you say he's a pretentious idiot? Have you read a single thing he's ever actually said about himself? His s--- has nothing to do with Led Zeppelin,..."
  Mary
1 Comment

White Stripes Documentary: Band Eats Caribou, Performs on Bus. Really.

Published September 25th, 2009 by Karen
whitestripes
Creative Commons License photo credit: notto86

The White Stripes’ tour documentary Under Great White Northern Lights has debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, according to a report on NME.com. The film, which was directed by video director Emmett Malloy, chronicles Jack and Meg White’s 2007 tour of Canada.

What makes it different from typical tour documentaries is that the film captures the White Stripes performing at nontraditional venues like bowling alleys, boats and city buses. It also features the band’s 10th anniversary show at the Savoy Theater in Nova Scotia and their famous one-note show in Newfoundland.

“The idea was there was this gigantic frontier right next to where we grew up in Detroit that is just so untouched by our band, let alone bands in general,” Jack White said. During the film the duo can be seen eating raw caribou, meeting tribal elders, walking along frozen tundra, donning traditional kilts and even firing a canon.

According to director Malloy, most of the locals didn’t even know who the White Stripes were.

A trailer for the movie released by Jack White’s Third Man productions, tags the feature “A brother and sister’s journey across the great white north.”

Early the in the band’s career, the duo had claimed to be siblings, but it was later revealed that they were in fact ex-husband and wife (White being Meg’s maiden name, which Jack adopted). Both musicians are now married: Jack to British model Karen Elson; Meg to Jackson Smith, son of MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith and poet/musician Patti Smith.

BELOW: The trailer for the new White Stripes documentary, Under Great White Northern Lights. Continue reading »

Be the first to comment

Killers Going In For the Kill

Published May 3rd, 2009 by Wendy
Live 8
Creative Commons License photo credit: damo1977

The Killers have set their sights over Nirvana and Led Zeppelin.

According to an NME.com report, the Las Vegas-based band is sick and tired of the way US audiences cling to the hard rock bands of yesterday, and hopes Americans will get over them.

“We’ve been embraced in Britain in a way that I’ll never understand, and it’s such a wonderful thing,” frontman Brandon Flowers declared on the NME Web site. “But over here [in America], people are still so obsessed with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana, those sorts of bands, that nobody else is allowed [to grow].”

Flowers added: “It’s not just us; there are a lot of great bands that have been held down or confined by the influence of these people that we’ve put up on pedestals. I’m tired of it, you know? I just want to knock them all off! And people don’t like that attitude. It’s almost like they don’t believe that it’s possible that anybody else can be the real deal.”

The Killers, who are already a big deal in Europe, are currently on a tour through North America, where they hope to leave a lasting impression.

Be the first to comment

Bonnaroo 2008 Robert Plant VS Lez Zeppelin?

Published June 2nd, 2008 by Karen

The line-up for this year’s Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced.

For the uninitiated, Bonaroo is a four-day music and arts festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Similar to Woodstock, Coachella and the late lamented Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo attracts a wide array of very high-profile acts, as well as cool up-and-coming artists playing everything from folk music, jam-band fare and indie-rock to blues, heavy metal and rap.

This year’s line-up is set to include big names such as Pearl Jam, Metallica, Kanye West and B.B. King, as well as hipster acts Vampire Weekend, MGMT and Cat Power.

Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant will be performing with Alison Kraus on Sunday.
On Thursday, the all-female Led Zeppelin tribute act, Lez Zeppelin will perform. Wonder if they’re nervous? Will Plant make a guest appearance? Could be interesting…

The concert and events run from June 12-15, the pricey tickets cost from $209.50 to $244.50 (plus service charges). Camping is optional and some additional fees apply.

By the time you spend money on food and travel, this whole thing is really expensive, so I’m not really sure who attends this event. It seems too expensive for kids. College students, maybe? Well, college students with their parents’ credit cards,haha.

This concert is massive, so for the full line-up visit the Bonnaroo website, here. The site also features a clock counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the event begins, y’know, in case you’re crazy obsessive like that.

Can’t afford a ticket? Enjoy these free Bonnaroo downloads!

Free Pearl Jam dowload—Last Kiss

Free Metallica download—Enter Sandman

Free Led Zeppelin download—Black Dog

Tell us what you think!
Have you ever been to Bonnaroo?
What was the best or worst part about it? Will you go this year?
Leave a comment and tell us all about it!