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Now Streaming: Ben Gibbard – Former Lives

I realized something about the world a year or so ago. I don't like Death Cab For Cutie. Their music is just so... what's the word? .... Completely and utterly depressing? Yes, that's it. So when I saw Death Cab frontman Ben Gibbard's solo album being streamed, I almost passed over it because, well, it was raining, ...

Free Music Monday: Jeremy De Tolly, Rachel Yamagata, Diplo

We missed it last week because of the holiday, but never fear, we saved up some awesome tunes for this week's Free Music Monday. Here we go: The Elkcloner - Sunbird Katy B - Witches Brew (Diplo Remix) White Rabbits - Temporary Plants And Animals - Song For Love (I have a feeling this is going to be my new ...

New solo song from Jukebox The Ghost frontman

Ben Thornewill, the candy-voiced frontman of one of our top bands, Jukebox The Ghost, has released a new solo song on his Bandcamp page. "I Think That I Could Love You" obviously rings similar to the Jukebox sound - unavoidable with the same singer - but is more classical and less crazy. This is like the deep breath you'll ...

Patrick Stump – This City

This song qualifies because Lupe Fiasco has a special place in my heart after one of his songs soundtracked a lot of my recent travels.And, well, look at Patrick Stump ...

Now playing: Only Son

You might remember this catchy tune from the little-movie-that-could, a couple of years ago:The lead guitarist behind that band, The Moldy Peaches, is now doing this:- making music under the musical moniker of Only Son.If you judge Only Son's music on the video above alone, how freakin' good is it!? Music, after all, is ...

Brandon Flowers’ solo album preview

The preview of Flowers' first solo album is about a week old already, but I know a couple of ladies who are going to be drooling on their keyboards when they find this stream, so thought I'd put it up anyway.Much to the heartbreak of Killers fans everywhere, Brandon Flowers went out on his own last year. He's already ...

Free Music: Temper Trap, Deer Tick, Spoon

Because I'm bleak that Oppikoppi is over for another year and Monday was a public holiday (bank holiday, day off - whatever you'd like to call it), I thought I'd replace today's gig guide with some more free music.But just because Lollapalooza is also over for this year, it doesn't mean we can't stop giving you free music ...

Brandon Flowers & Charlize Theron

Ok, so I hadn't been paying attention to Brandon Flowers since he broke our hearts by splitting from The Killers. But when we saw our homegirl Charlize was in his new solo music video, we perked up a bit.The video premiered last week. Check it out below:I'm not convinced about the song's excellence, but the vid's pretty ...

Free Music Monday: The Roots, Passion Pit, Radiohead

First up for free download this week is Jimmy Fallon's house band, The Roots. It's a wonder they have any time to make new music between hanging around Jimmy all day and playing like infinity DJ gigs every week, but they have and their new album, How I Got Over has done very well since its release a few weeks ago. They're ...

Roger Daltry gives voice a workout on solo tour

Roger Daltrey has dubbed his current solo jaunt the "Use It or Lose It" tour, but his show at the Nokia Theater demonstrated that sometimes you can use it and lose it as well.The 65-year-old the Who singer had some vocal difficulties as his lengthy performance on Friday (Nov. 20) progressed, which he partly blamed on the ...

Nick Jonas hits the road with band No 2

Nick Jonas is striking out on his own. Sort of.The 17-year-old star is planning to hit the road in January with his alternaband, the Administration, for a monthlong tour.Jonas started working on an album with the quartet in Nashville earlier this year, while the Jonas Brothers were on a break from crisscrossing the globe. ...

Eagle member takes flight with solo album

He's the Eagle who isn't Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh.That would be Timothy B. Schmit, the bass player who joined the mega-selling rock band in time to record one album before it broke up in 1980, a split that left him "pretty shocked."To make matters worse, he was undergoing a divorce at the time, and he ...

Stephen Stills hard at work

Stephen Stills says this year's pair of fall archival releases are part of a master plan that will eventually lead to a full-scale box set of potentially mammoth proportions."I want to break up the periods of my career and not make one of those big humongous things that nobody can afford," Stills tells Billboard.com. In ...

Stewart Copeland doing well after The Police

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, has always had a few choice, four-letter words for his bandmate Sting. And while that is not news for fans of the 1980's megagroup, his new word may be. It is "love."Well, "Strange Things Happen," which is the title of Copeland's new autobiography. It spans his 57 years from ...

Aerosmith guitarist goes solo as band flounders

Aerosmith has survived drugs, departures, divorces and discord since the rock 'n' roll bad boys formed 40 years ago.But guitarist Joe Perry does not know if the band will overcome its latest troubles, and is forging ahead with his own ambitious touring and recording plans.Aerosmith has been on a wobbly footing for the past ...