Never Gonna Let You Down Now…

CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER IN 2009

Happy New Years Cannibal Cheerleader faithful! Whether you’re just tuning in or you’re an old-school follower, we’d like you to know that 2009 is going to blow 2008 out of the water here on the blog. We’ve had more than one ‘returning to the fold’ post but this one represents a new [...]

Wild Silence/Best of Pt. 2

BALMORHEA REVEAL DETAILS FOR THIRD LP

Seems our friends Balmorhea have been busy over the last few months, recording, mastering, and ultimately finishing their upcoming third LP All Is Wild, All Is Silent (cover up above). From the recent show we covered (video coming soon!) the gang’s new tunes are going to blow the lid off [...]

Wordless, Speechless

MY MORNING JACKET LEAVES US BREATHLESSLast night My Morning Jacket continued their massive Evil Urges tour and brought it all back home to Austin, “Where civilization first began,” according to Jim James. The performance recalled the last time the legendary James Brown swung through Austin before he died and played this same stage at Stubb’s [...]

Touch Me Intimately

BLOC PARTY GET INTIMATEIn an announcement that dropped jaws and got hips shaking worldwide, London’s own Bloc Party has revealed that their third LP, entitled Intimacy, will drop digitally this very Thursday and be available physically as soon as October. This move, reminiscent of the rush-to-the-streets strategies of the likes of Gnarls Barkley, Radiohead, and [...]

Food for Thought

BEN GIBBARD COVERS RILO KILEY/STARSAt a recent solo gig for Rhapsody, Ben Gibbard gave the acoustic treatment to some Narrow Stairs already classics such as “Cath…” and “Grapevine Fires”. However, the real excitement came when the Death Cab for Cutie frontman covered tracks from Rilo Kiley (”Silver Lining”) and Stars (”Your Ex-Lover is Dead”), and [...]

Full Metal Jacket

NEW MY MORNING JACKET VIDEOSOur favorite country-fried rockers My Morning Jacket were on Conan last night and their performance of “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream (Pt. 2)” rang to high heavens. We also have a video here of MMJ at Bonnaroo with Kirk Hammett from Metallica, so check it folks!

My Morning Jacket on ConanMy [...]

To The Moon

NEW MY MORNING JACKET VIDEOSHey all, sorry about the late update (computer troubles again!) but today will knock your socks off. We not only have the new official music video for My Morning Jacket’s first single off of Evil Urges “I’m Amazed”, but we have the premiere of the Evil Urges EPK video on which [...]

A Touch and a Kiss

NEW FACELESS WEREWOLVES VIDEOSThe Faceless Werewolves performed at Emo’s last Thursday and who was there but your trusty Cannibal Cheerleader, camera in tow. Here are a few videos from the night that confirm what astute listeners already know: when it comes to garage-rock in Austin, the Faceless Werewolves are the head of the pack.

The Faceless [...]

Warped Speed

BE YOUR OWN PET JOIN WARPED TOURAccording to this Pitchfork article, the mighty munchkins of Be Your Own Pet will be joining the Warped Tour for dates in July and August. The skater-punks will surely enjoy a little of Jemima Pearl’s madcap live antics and you know WE’LL be loving her at her upcoming Stubb’s [...]

Quick Bite 1

MMJ ON SNL VIDEOSThanks to Stereogum for finding this awesome SNL performance for My Morning Jacket on YouTube. Apparently they played the Prince-infused “Evil Urges” and the country-fried “I’m Amazed” both from the Evil Urges LP. Here’s “Evil Urges”:And you can find “I’m Amazed” here. Thanks Stereogum! MMJ rule! Also, the introduction of ‘Quick Bites’, [...]

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