Hey there Tweeters! Here at Twelve Major Chords there’s nothing we love more than a bandwagon that we can jump straight on to, and Twitter is no exception.
For all you mums and dads out there, Twitter is the latest social networking craze to take over the internetz. Users start an account, follow their friends [...]

The cool cats over at Way Cool Jnr. have compiled a list of the Top 25 Australian Music Blogs and just like Spinal Tap we here at Twelve Major Chords go all the way to 11. Using a combination of ones and zeros, stuff to do with Google Rankings and something about Technorati, Nick [...]

That crazy Canuck over at A Reminder is doing exactly what his blog suggests and reminding us that Fleet Foxes are supposed to be in the country for some New Years Eve party times as part of the Falls Festival. Thankfully for those of us who don’t fancy dirt, sleeping on the ground, porta-showers [...]

Andrew Bird played the Outside Lands Festival in “San Fran” and the MusicNOW! Festival in Cincinatti just recently and previewed a bunch of songs off his upcoming album to audience members who will no doubt claim to have liked him before you. Among the usual Bird classics, were new songs titled: “The Master Swarm”, “Anoanimal”, [...]

A week before packing his bags and heading off to record his eighth studio album, Andrew Bird has taken time out of his busy schedule of whistling and fiddling to jump onto the latest internet bandwagon to take the world by storm; celebrity blogging. Hosted by The New York Times website, this blog focuses in [...]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em - there’s no denying that R.E.M.’s monumental eighth record, Automatic for the People was the pivotal release that helped complete the Georgia band’s transformation from college-radio poster children into the commercial juggernauts we all know and love/hate today. I was seven when the record was released in 1992, so I [...]

Here’s what Radiohead’s blog, Dead Air Space, had to say a few hours ago:
Hello Everyone.
Well, the new album is finished, and it’s coming out in 10 days;
We’ve called it In Rainbows.
Love from us all.
Jonny.
So, you’re one of the biggest UK bands of all time, your six-album contract has finally run out, you’ve got billions of [...]

Greetings, weary traveller. Allow me to act as a trusty compass in this foreign land they call ‘the Internet’ and point you into the direction of a brilliant live recording of Ryan Adams & The Cardinals’ Loft Sessions over at one of my favourite websites, An Aquarium Drunkard.
The set was recorded with the original Cardinals [...]

Electra, DJ for Chicago radio station Q 101 must be hanging her head in shame, after being on the receiving end of a phone call from a very pissed off Jack White. Jack personally called the station from Spain where The White Stripes are currently touring, after learning that Electra played their yet-to-be-released album, [...]

Melbourne’s Faux Pas is to Tim Shiel, as to what Gotham City’s Batman is to Bruce Wayne. The only difference lies in what each of the secretly identifiable men of mystery are renowned for. Faux Pas paints luscious soundscapes with a very mixed palette of noise, whereas Batman hangs out in a cave, wearing a [...]

As is the case most of the time, all of the best music news broke while we here at 12MC were off stuffing our faces with chocolate enjoying our Easter long weekend.

First things first - the official cover art for The White Stripes’ sixth offering, Icky Thump was released, and I’m starting to wish [...]

As recently posted on The Shins Myspace blog, the next single off Wincing The Night Away will be the catchy and oh-so-Shins-it-hurts tune, “Australia”. Not surprised? Well here’s something that will surprise you…
The song which was written in and named after our beautiful continent of Australia, is only going to be played on British airwaves. [...]