Albums? No, an ‘album’ does NOT mean vinyl.  For years our radio friends would refer to the music they played as ‘albums.’ Stick around for something from the new Genesis album, or That was ”Song For My Brother’ from the Shadowfax album, ‘Watercourse Way.’ Then as the 80s were ending, so was the way that radio gave us our music.  They were making the transition from playing vinyl to compact disc. It cost them a good penny and they were proud of it!  Maybe their competitor down the dial hadn’t made the transformation? So even thought they were playing ‘albums’ they started referring to the music they played as CDs. That was ‘Ramona’ from the new ‘NRBQ’ CD, ‘Wild...

Larry Carta, co-founder of ‘Cool Album of the Day’ was recently interviewed on ‘720 WGN’ Chicago radio. The interview was part of the Nick Digilio Show. Here’s a link to the complete interview!  Enjoy!! Are you familiar with Nick’s Show on WGN? If not, you should be. He sprays to all fields. Movie reviews, TV reviews, DVD talk, pop culture, how the Blackhawks did tonight, etc etc.  Check out his homepage. You can follow Nick via all the usual methods, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia etc. You can find the links as a group here. Or click on them individually above! They’re all active. His show runs every Friday Night from 1opm until 2am and Saturday from 6pm until 11pm. Lastly, a big...

We have been following a Cool New Studio, Venice Arts Club and we are thrilled to announce the release of their latest album: New White Trash Doublewide. This album boasts 37 songs of alternative indy rock. Check out our post Cool Studio: Venice Arts Club to read more about the folks behind this album. In the mean time you can hear and purchase the whole album below or from their web site newwhitetrash.com Credits All songs Written, Arranged and Performed by the NEW WHITE TRASH. Produced by Doug Lewis Recorded @ Venice Arts Club, Venice, CA. Additional Production – Andy Kravitz Additional Recording @ A2K Studios, Collingswood, NJ. Mastered by Bob Rice, Culver City, CA Play List Direct From...

Produced By Marius de Vries And Robertson Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Robert Randolph, Trent Reznor And Tom Morello are Featured PR Newswire LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4, 2011 LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — On April 5, 2011, 429 Records will release How To Become Clairvoyant, Robbie Robertson’s fifth solo album and his first record in more than 10 years. Guitar virtuosos Eric Clapton (who co-wrote three tracks with Robertson), Tom Morello and Robert Randolph guest on the album, which Robertson co-produced with Marius de Vries. How To Become Clairvoyant also features Steve Winwood and Trent Reznor as well as vocalists Angela McCluskey, Rocco Deluca, Dana Glover and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. Bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Ian Thomas lay down the groove throughout. On his last two albums – Music for The Native Americans (1994) and Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998) – Robertson explored his ancestry. Now,...

Through a friend (tangodog da void) I met Doug Lewis, the driving force behind Venice Arts Club Records. Like most of us, Doug is confronted by a struggle against a corporate machine controlled by a select few who seem hell bent on dehumanizing us in exchange for profit. On top of that he’s been living with cancer for years. A natural reaction to all this would be for him to resign himself to a life of hiding and hording. Instead, Doug provides a place for artists to have a voice against the machine – his studio, his home….his life – the VAC. The VAC is a studio in Venice, CA that “produces and promotes local music and community art.”...

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From RollingStone.com By Jem Aswad The sanctity of the album as a unified body of work might seem like a quaint concept these days, but yesterday Pink Floyd won the right to preserve it as part of a legal battle with its label, EMI. England’s Court of Appeal ruled that the group’s songs cannot be sold individually without their permission, after Floyd’s lawyers argued that the group’s 1999 contract with EMI requires the label to sell its catalog only as complete albums, even in digital form. At the moment, that right is either not in effect or is being exercised selectively: The majority of the group’s songs are currently available individually on iTunes, although a number of them are not....

A theatrical concert about the original cosmic cowboy–he lived fast, died young and left a charred corpse. Gram Parsons was the creative force behind some of the most important recordings of the late ’60s and early ’70s, and today is hailed as the patron saint of alt-country and Americana. He was born into a southern gothic tragedy straight out of Tennessee Williams—his family owned 18,000 acres of Florida orange groves, and they had all the infidelity, addiction, self-destruction and insanity money could buy. His father, “Coon Dog” Connor, committed suicide when Gram was 12 years old. His mother drank herself to death five years later. Small wonder that Gram had a morbid compulsion to go out in a haze...

  Ah the Aragon Ballroom. This is a fun listing for the old Rock ‘n’ Rollers that visit the Cool Album of the Day site. Here’s a list of just about ever show that was held at the Aragon Ballroom in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.  If you went there, have fun looking thru this list.  Look for the shows that you saw. Feel ‘bummed’ about the ones you missed. Be angry about the ones that you would have checked out but you didn’t know about, until now. I’ve combined different listings to form this list. I’ve even contacted band members and did poster research to find others. It’s the best list on the ‘net! If you were never...

  Ah the Aragon Ballroom. This is a fun listing for the old Rock ‘n’ Rollers that visit the Cool Album of the Day site. Here’s a list of just about ever show that was held at the Aragon Ballroom in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.  If you went there, have fun looking thru this list.  Look for the shows that you saw. Feel ‘bummed’ about the ones you missed. Be angry about the ones that you would have checked out but you didn’t know about, until now. I’ve combined different listings to form this list. I’ve even contacted band members and did poster research to find others. It’s the best list on the ‘net! If you were never...