On Jul 31, 2007, the White Stripes played their final show. The duo was touring behind what would be their final album as a group (2007’s Icky Thump) and performed a 20-song, 4-encore set at the Southaven, Mississippi venue Snowden Grove. Now, eight years after the band officially broke up, a recording of that final…

Oliver Stone to direct real life political drama

US pop star up against Barack Obama, Pop Francis and NSA leaker Edward Snowden    

Georgia-born Jordan Jeffares slipped out an EP two years ago, but that stopgap aside, his project Snowden has been in a gestational phase since its 2006 debut LP Anti-Anti. They are finally back, with a new record No One In Control, due this fall on Kings Of Leon’s label Serpents & Snakes. It’s an interesting [...]

Snowden’s 2006 debut full-length Anti-Anti fit comfortably alongside the dance-rock/post-punk strains dotting playlists then, but beneath the genre bend on their album’s best cut — on songs like “Like Bullets” and the title track – they were mining emotional heft from disaffected lyric...