Two Cocteau Twins Titles – Head Over Heels, Treasure – Remastered For Vinyl LP
When Cocteau Twins arrived in the Post-Punk New Wave trend back in the waning days of the ’70s, it was with an original form that, while attempted, even today, could…
New Wye Oak Album Planned For April
It’s been some years since Wye Oak, a duo (Andy Stack, Jenn Wasner) from Baltimore, MD, released their last album. Even then, Shriek (2014) is an engaging departure from their…
The Sword To Release New Album, Used Future
The Metal band, The Sword, first engaged audiences with a raucous style of Rock that called to mind Black Sabbath with their debut release, Age of Winters in 2006. Since…
2CD The Essential Eric Anderson Honors The Folk Artist
Eric Anderson is a Folk singer-songwriter who crossed over into the Rock market back in the ’70s by touring with prominent Folk/Rock artists including Bob Dylan. Even so, his start…
The $5.98 EP Garage Days Revisited by Metallica Remastered and Re-Revisited
Metallica has an ongoing campaign to refresh their potent catalog with new remasters and expanded reissues. Their previous such work was Master of Puppets (1986), released back in November of…
Philip Glass To Complete Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy With Lodger: Symphony No. 12
Here’s a bit of Random Notes for you that I thought some of you may be interested in. It’s not an announcement of an album on the calendar, but rather…
Erasure To Release World Beyond As Companion Set To World Be Gone
Erasure fans who have bought their last release, World Be Gone, back in May of 2017 might be pleased to discover that Vince Clarke and Andy Bell will release a…
New The Decemberists Album, I’ll Be Your Girl, In March
The Decemberists did quite well to gain attention back in 2005 with the release of their third album, Picaresque. But it was their sophomore issue, Her Majesty The Decemberists that…
New MGMT Album, Little Dark Age, In February
Sometimes I come across some news that has eluded me for a while, and I get quite surprised. This is especially true when the news I missed is about a…
New Debut Album by Mien (The Black Angels/Elephant Stone/Earlies/The Horrors Collaboration)
Psychedelic Rock has made a resurgence in popularity over these past few years. There are, of course, plenty of Rock bands currently revisiting that ancient but much loved genre from…
Suede Celebrates Anniversary of Debut Album With 4CD/DVD 25th Anniversary Silver Edition Box
Suede entered the Rock world with a classic offering in their self-titled debut album back in 1993. The band stood out from many of their peers, and steadily gained a…
Kittie Celebrates 20 Years With Career Documentary and New Live Set
Some of us at MusicTAP have been fans of the Canadian Metal band, Kittie for some years. In fact, since our start in 2001 (yes, THAT long ago!), one of…