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May 20, 2008 | Music News
May 20, 2008 | Music News
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May 19, 2008 | Music News
May 19, 2008 | Music News
Smash has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The release continues to hold the title of best-selling independently released album of all time. The Offspring have sold over 34 million albums in their career. Read more
May 19, 2008 | Music News
The group will issue a greatest hits set, Popular Songs, June 24 via Cooking Vinyl. The album will include some of the group’s most well-known material, such as “Border Ska” and the college radio classic “Take The Skinheads Bowling.” The group re-recorded five songs from their major-label days, specifically 1988’s Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and 1989’s Key Lime Pie, when they were unable to purchase the masters from their former label, Virgin. Read more
May 19, 2008 | Music News
After making their debut with 1994’s My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be, Athens (GA) Harvey Milk recorded two more full-lengths (1995’s Courtesy And Good Will Towards Men and 1997’s The Pleaser) before disbanding in 1998. Read more
May 16, 2008 | Music News
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Wes Lang’s solo show, Are You Ready For The Country?, is his third at ZieherSmith Gallery. His work has also been seen in exhibitions in Berlin at Peres Projects; in New York at Alexander and Bonin, Greenberg Van Doren, and Andrea Rosen Gallery; in Athens at the Deste Foundation and Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre; among others. 
In 2005, Firewater’s Tod A embarked on what would become a 3-year trip through the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. Recording with a single microphone and a laptop in his pack, he captured performances with a vast array of musicians across India and Pakistan — and eventually Turkey and Israel. They will be touring in support of their new album, The Golden Hour (Bloodshot) 
Thalia Zedek is set to embark on a new summer tour in support of her latest release Liars and Prayers (Thrill Jockey) which came out on April 22nd. 
Charleston, South Carolina-based band The Explorers Club will hit the road in North America this summer with Lightspeed Champion and Flowers Forever in support of their new album, Freedom Wind (Dead Oceans). Material from the new album is streaming on the group’s 
Epitaph will be re-issuing 1992’s Ignition and 1994’s Smash by Offspring on June 17th.
Harvey Milk have anounced their new album The Best Game In Town, out June 3rd on Hydra Head.
Singer songwriter Martha Wainwright (yes, her brother is Rufus) will be touring with KT Tunstall starting this August. The tour will be in support of Martha’s forthcoming album, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too which Zoe/Rounder will release on June 10. 
Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo wrote and directed the 74 minute robot epic, Electroma, as a conceptual complement to the duo’s 2005 album Human After All (Virgin). Composed of five set-pieces and shot on 35 mm film stock in the California deserts, the film follows the leather clad avatars of Daft Punk, Hero Robots #1 and #2, down perpetual highways and endless deserts in the pursuit of humanity. Devoid of dialogue and anything from the Daft Punk catalogue, the film floats on the potency of lingering camera sequences and stark cinematography.