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Quick Hits: Elvis Costello, Robin Thicke, Metallica, Arctic Monkeys (FMQB)
Albums from the first decade of Elvis Costello 's career will be re-released once again on May 1, with Universal 's acquisition of his catalog. The CDs will be re-packaged in digipaks with the original U.S. artwork, according to Billboard . Rhino re-issued Costello's entire catalog with expanded liner notes and bonus discs of extra tracks earlier this decade.
New album punches up performer's typical style (The Daily Texan)
Sondre Lerche is a gentleman. His talent is mind-boggling, and despite having shared a stage with the likes of Elvis Costello and fellow Norwegians a-ah, the 22 year old is the sweetest and most self-possessed rocker you'll ever meet. The DT Weekend interviewed Lerche by phone from his U.S. abode in New York.
RECENT ITEMS (Filter Magazine)
Now that he?s received some free publicity from The Fratellis? debut album Costello Music, Elvis Costello has seen fit to announce a ten-date US tour with his band The Imposters . He?ll also be playing a one off show with Rosanna Cash on April 13th at New York's Rubin Museum of Art which is apparently going to be an "all acoustic musical talk show, drawing on the theme of magic numbers.?
Decemberists Cover Fleetwood Mac on Benefit Album (Spin)
Thermals, Dandy Warhols also among rockers participating in benefit album for Portland charity.
Notes From Underground (Blogcritics.org)
On my last Notes dispatch, I was chided by someone who felt that I lived in a parallel universe for thinking that Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello were ?Underground.? His criticism was fair, so I tried picking artists that were a bit less recognizable. Also though, the term ?underground? is subjective?and I know neither of the aforementioned artists should be considered ?underground??but all the ...
Sondre Lerche: Live from SXSW (Minnesota Public Radio)
Sondre Lerche claims his latest album, Phantom Punch, is "an Orange Juice meets Fleetwood Mac & My Bloody Valentine meets Gilberto Gil & Os Mutantes meets early Elvis Costello & Prefab Sprout & XTC meets Thomas Dolby meets Steely Dan circa Katy Lied, kind of thing."
Music Review: Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down - Phantom Punch (Blogcriti...
After vociferously consuming Sondre Lerche?s new release Phantom Punch , this reviewer can?t shake those sharp melodies, or the nagging feeling that Lerche would have been just as fashionable in 1977 as he is today. Even a single run through the disc is like setting your own personal wayback machine to the New Wave era ? where the punch of Elvis Costello and the Scot outfit Orange Juice is ...
Keeping us in stitches: Patchwork songs that sound familiar (Baltimore Sun)
The Fratellis took their brothers-in-music identities from The Ramones. They named their debut album "Costello Music" (Cherry Tree/Interscope) after that angry-young-Brit, Elvis Costello. And there's a bit of nearly every Britpop band from the Beatles to the Arctic Monkeys tucked into the band's songs.
Music Review: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living (Blogcri...
Sound: Melodic punk with do-it-yourself passion, political conviction and a well-read vocabulary. As always, Ted and Company keep the spirit of The Clash, Elvis Costello and the Jam alive, but continue to carve out their own niche behind the strength of Ted?s powerful pipes ? which can slice and jab or sweetly croon ? his ideological poetry and the band?s well-rounded, top-shelf, and ...
Singers bash sponsors, stop traffic in Austin (San Francisco Chronicle)
The hardest part about covering the South by Southwest music festival is trying to be everywhere at once. With nearly 1,500 bands playing around the clock at more than 60 venues for a four-day stretch that extends into Sunday, there's always a nagging...