Tag Archives: Nero

Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Archer Black, Young Jeezy, Snoop Dogg, Jonsi, and Common

by Shop Keeper
January 3, 2012 - 9:32 pm

It’s been a while, musicphiles…here’s a few you might have missed over the holidays…Snoop Dogg did a kid’s album…who would’ve thunkit…Lars von Trier and indie darling Charlotte Gainsbourg is back with another solo record…Nero welcomes Reality…Jonsi does the soundtrack for We Bought a Zoo…Common Gets Some rave reviews over The Dreamer/The Believer…LA-based rockers, Archer Black make their debut…

Anthony Hamilton – Back to Love
Archer Black – Forgiveness is a Weapon
Young London – Tooth and Nail
King Kobra – Legends Never Die
Plug in Stereo – The Patience EP
Snoop Dogg – Mac and Devin Go to High School [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper
White Denim – Last Day of Summer
Nero – Welcome Reality
Young Jeezy – TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
Jonsi – We Bought a Zoo (OMS)
Common – The Dreamer/The Believer

Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Nero, Breaking Benjamin, The Cool Kids, and Jeff Bridges

by Shop Keeper
August 16, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Big release week, and too many names to mention — but fresh off his recent appearance at The Troubadour, Jeff Bridges releases his self-titled debut…dubstep young god Nero has Welcome Reality and Dead Can Dance bring you Towards the End (the best I could come up with) — and Matthew Friedberger wants you to Cut it Out. Haha. I’ll try to be more clever next week…see ya…

Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges

Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamins

Nero - Welcome Reality

Speed the Plough – Shine

New Villager – New Villager

Maria Taylor - Overlook

Ana Popovic – Unconditional

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Guy Clark – Songs and Stories

Matthew Friedberger – Cut it Out

Dead Can Dance - Towards the End (DVD)

Braid – Closer to Closed

Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud

Patrick Doyle - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (OST)

Case Studies - The World is Just a Ship to Fill the World

Fool’s Gold - Leave No Trace

Canon Blue - Rumspringa

Blue October - Any Man in America

Gallery Music The Emperor of Dubstep: Nero

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
August 11, 2011 - 10:24 am

Dubstep’s latest poster child, Nero, is composed of one part Daniel Stephens and one part Joe Ray. The innovative duo came to light after a string of big name remixes for the likes of Deadmau5, N.E.R.D. and La Roux, which they followed up with a 2004 EP titled “Requiem.” Currently dominating the worldwide festival circuit, Stephens and Ray are on a mission to apply their punchy beats and euphoric sounds towards boosting the dubstep genre one notch higher.

The guys arrived in LA Saturday afternoon to play to thousands at HARD Summer Music Festival. Following a 4-hour trek through immigration, Stephens and Ray arrived on the festival grounds. “The airport was just fucked today. I don’t know what was going on,” joked Stephens. After what he referred to as a “sucky start” to the day, Stephens took a seat in his trailer to discuss everything from clubbing in London to Nero’s latest album.

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Gallery Music HARD or BUST

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
August 9, 2011 - 11:33 am

If this year’s HARD Summer Festival theme had to be summed up in one word, it would have to be “naked.” On Saturday, the celebrated electronic music festival brought thousands of music lovers to Los Angeles’s Downtown Historic Park for the sold out music fest. Swarms of festival goers arrived in their rave-worthy best; dressed in the smallest amount of clothing they could get by in without earning them a police record.

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