You wanted the expensive repackaging, you got the expensive repackaging! Kiss will release a new three-CD box set, Playlist Plus, on April 29. The tracklisting to said box just happens to feature the exact same songs that appeared on the three volumes of that discount staple 20th Century Masters: The Millenium that they put out in '03, '04 and '06 respectively. Why? Cuz you people deserve to give yourself a round of applause! Would you like to know just how many times these songs have been featured on albums and compilations? For reasons I can't quite explain, I bothered to figured it out.  read more »

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll.  read more »

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he observes a few shake-ups on the normally staid Modern Rock and Active Rock charts.  read more »

The Free Music Archive -- WFMU's interactive library of curated, legal music downloads -- is in pre-launch-blog-mode until November while we continue to build the site and grow the library. In the meantime, here's a sampling of some participating artists from the Chicagoland area. The original idea for these Free Music Archive regional previews was to highlight just a few of the participating artists from each city. Like less than ten.  read more »

Tomorrow, April 19, music lovers from Memphis to Melbourne will unite to celebrate a vital global institution: the independent record retailer. Yes, this Saturday marks the inaugural Record Store Day, and with it comes all manner of free swag, contests, red hot exclusive releases, in-store performances, DJ sets, signings, meet-and-greets, and other assorted hoopla.

With so many goodies and so much going down at spots around the world, it may be tricky getting a handle on just what you can expect tomorrow. Keeping that in mind, Pitchfork has assembled a little Record Store Day highlight reel. Read on, friends, and start gathering that allowance/beer/trust fund money. You're going to be buying some records tomorrow! (And, we sure hope, buying records many other days this year too.)  read more »

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he holds a few recent blog-rock darlings up to the harsh light of commercial rock radio, and judges their potential for success:  read more »

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Idolator Critics' Poll editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he looks at two books aimed at list fanatics, one intermittently entertaining but flawed and one recommended unreservedly to all music geeks: My life of list-geekdom began, more or less, with two books.  read more »

With all the endless chatter surrounding the record industry's slow-motion apocalypse—downloading, business models, livestock , etc.—it's refreshing to read someone who makes a salient point. Tim Whitwell, writing in Word , puts aside tiresome ethics-of-illegal-downloading arguments and simply considers the concrete financial future of rock stars in this new era, and what they might soon have in common with the upper-middle class. I grew up assuming that anyone on tv was mind-bogglingly rich. It's a common enough mistake that I share with the cast of Big Brother. Sometimes, it's true.  read more »

New Jersey-based record label HardKandy Records inc. celebrates 10 years of business by releasing 8 albums in 2008. Royal Doll's debut album "Deeper Down" (pop, rock, r&b and Trip Hop); Alphafemes debut album "First Sight" (pop/rock); G.L. Hines (his second album) "Songs for Her" (smooth jazz); Brother Noyze The Mad Musician's (debut album as an artist) "Feel This" (pop, rock, soul and electronica); House Of ill Repute "Black House Sessions" (their second album) (electronica); Charisse Carney Nunes "Songs of a SisterMom-The Album" (spoken word, jazz and r&b); Kosmic Kandy (debut album) "Kosmic Kandy" (electronica); Sugar Stick (3rd Album) "Fairy Dust and Angel's Breath" (pop, rock, soul, trip hop, r&b and hip hop) (PRWeb Apr 11, 2008)  read more »

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