Wanna see how the band prepped for this month’s NYC gigs?

Wanna find out how they decided on each setlist?

Enjoy the full feature here.

MP3: Sigur Ros – Olsen Olsen

Check out the Q&A session at bottom of post.

It begins halfway through the program.

Visit Joan on MySpace.

MP3: JAPW – New York Times Interview

Here’s are two snippets from yesterday’s Q&A with Chris Martin: *”I don’t listen to our records because it makes me break out in tears and sweat… When you get to a fourth LP, you have to be really careful about how much you sing, because people aren’t surprised by your voice anymore. So you have to think of new things.” Read the full piece here.

MP3: Coldplay – Square One (Remix)

Writer Melena Ryzik talks to Bjork and the directing team (Encyclopedia Pictura) about the making of the latest video lifted from 2007′s opus, Volta. Watch the complete feature here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork – Pagan Poetry (Live)

Writer Melena Ryzik talks to Bjork and the directing team (Encyclopedia Pictura) about the making of the latest video lifted from 2007′s opus, Volta. Watch the complete feature here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork – Pagan Poetry (Live)

Writer Melena Ryzik talks to Bjork and the directing team (Encyclopedia Pictura) about the making of the latest video lifted from 2007′s opus, Volta. Watch the complete feature here.

Visit Bjork at her official site.

MP3: Bjork – Pagan Poetry (Live)

It’s about time!

Click here to read the entire selection from today’s New York Times. 3 snippets from the article can be found below.

*“Our crowd is more a rock crowd,” said Gaspard Augé of Justice, who is still surprised that fans sometimes stage-dive at its gigs. Young audiences, he suggested, “just want more fun in electronic music, more hedonism.”

As for the cross-icon title, Mr. Augé said it was inspired, in part, because “it was a potent pop symbol in the ’90s, with people like Madonna and George Michael using it.” Of course it’s also a common heavy-metal motif, a connection also suggested by Justice’s crudely gothic black-and-silver cover art (not to mention those awe-inspiring Marshall stacks, which, it should be noted, are merely stage props).

“Daft Punk were my heroes when they released the ‘Homework’ album,” said Thomas Turner of the young Austin synth-rock band Ghostland Observatory. “That really influenced my view on music.”*

View Justice’s ’90s-influenced album art here.

MP3: Justice – Phantom Pt. 2

Here are some select quotes from today’s profile: “Without exaggerating, it is a miracle I did not die. I snorted heroin a lot — with coke. I did speedballs every day for years. And took pills. And then drank. And I don’t mean a little bit. I always outdid everybody.”

“My behavior was getting extreme… I was running the risk of becoming one of those people who talks to himself all the time. I was about to walk over this line that there was no coming back from, and I could feel it. I was seeing ghosts and hearing stuff. Having horrible nightmares. I was creating as much distance from people as possible so that, in the event that something terrible happened, it wouldn’t hurt them.”

Regarding his girlfriend, Jessica Joffe: “She’s nothing like me — two different worlds. She’s a person rooted in reason. Imagine that. She’s very kind… It sounds so cheesy, but we have these miniature A.A. meetings with each other.”

Read the entire article, in which Ryan discusses his collaboration with Sheryl Crow, his writing process for upcoming LP, Easy Tiger, and his relationship status with label, Lost Highway, here via NYTimes.com.

MP3: Ryan Adams – Sylvia Plath (live)

I happen to think it’s his strongest release to date.

However, that sentiment is not shared by other critics.

Billboard just delcared Bright Eyes’ latest work as ‘uneven’, Bitchfork claims it’s ‘troublesome’ and the NY Times went so far as to say: “He is clearly searching for a more mature style. But the musical and rhetorical convolutions of Cassadaga are no substitute, yet, for the way he used to blurt things out.”

Yikes! Who’s opinion do you side with?

MP3: Bright Eyes – If The Brakeman Turns My Way

I happen to think it’s his strongest release to date.

However, that sentiment is not shared by other critics.

Billboard just delcared Bright Eyes’ latest work as ‘uneven’, Bitchfork claims it’s ‘troublesome’ and the NY Times went so far as to say: “He is clearly searching for a more mature style. But the musical and rhetorical convolutions of Cassadaga are no substitute, yet, for the way he used to blurt things out.”

Yikes! Who’s opinion do you side with?

MP3: Bright Eyes – If The Brakeman Turns My Way