I’m confused, Radiohead

Boy, am I baffled, though. I’ve spent the last couple of days scorching in the sun while sipping mojitos on my recent, way too short vacation, thinking “Hey, it’s mid-season. Nothing interesting never really happens this time of year. The internet can do just as fine without me.” Was I surprised to find out Radiohead is the hot trending topic everywhere again, especially since Thom Yorke stated the band won’t be releasing a new album…

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Nick Cave – The Death of Bunny Munro

After all of Nick Cave’s  success performing with The Bad Seeds, creating spellbinding soundtracks with Warren Ellis and composing screenplays, the Australian cult icon has now turned to the written word, and is being tipped to deliver yet another artistic triumph. Cave’s new novel, ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’, is a menacingly graphic account of a depraved and sex-crazed door-to-door salesman, who also happens to reside in the author’s current home of Brighton, England. Fans…

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Guitar God Les Paul ascends to a better realm

Yesterday was a sad, sad day for music. Electric guitar virtuoso and inventor Les Paul died, at the epic age of 94. It was him who you can call the father of the solid body electric guitar, as well as multitrack recording. His blazing riffs were absolutely the bomb and he performed with some of the biggest stars ever, also produced a lot of hits, but it was the inventions that made him the revered…

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I want the new Wolfmother record NOW!

Band officials just recenly unveiled the cover art for Wolfmother’s upcoming “Cosmic Egg.” “That’s a darn big ass egg alright”, says the stoked young boy in the bushes, staring enigmatically. In the land down under, however, nothing is surprising anymore. Enough with the comic eggs though, I want heavy and mind blowing cosmic jams! I’ve been pretty anxious about the new album ever since I heard Wolfmother’s new single “Back Round” when we featured it…

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Crooked Vultures!

As previously reported, the raddest supergroup to have graced the rock scene in years, namely Them Crooked Vultures, hit Chicago’s Metro this Sunday, rocking the sweaty 1,000+ privileged crowd in hall. How was the band’s debut? Considering it came as an aftershow for the three day Lollapalooza fest that went on this weekend, by all accounts that surfaced (see twitter) it was a simply marvelous experience – hands down the best show from the Lollapalooza…

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More Biffy Clyro Tour Details Announced

Pulled Apart By Horses. Image courtesy of The Spider Hill. Biffy Clyro have recently announced the support acts playing on their UK and Irish tour and more dates for later in the year which will see the band travel across Europe. Although initially the support was announced as Welsh rockers Future Of The Left this is now not the case due to unforeseen circumstances. The band will now be supported by Leeds lads Pulled Apart…

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Finally – John Paul Jones, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl are Them Crooked Vultures!

Exactly one month ago we were stoked to report the formation of one of the most awesome supergroups to see the light of day in years – a band comprised of none other than Led Zep’s John Paul Jones, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. Today, we’ve got a name for the three – The Crooked Vultures. Looks like the band’s first show will be held at Chicago’s Metro…

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New lost Modest Mouse video: ‘King Rat’ (directed by Heath Ledger)

Seems like Modest Mouse’s frontman Isaac Brock and the late Heath Ledger were  friends, revealing, among other things, in a past interview 2007 interview, that the two had been working on a music video for one of the band’s songs “King Rat” (any tie to the James Clavell novel?). The song didn’t make the cut for MM’s ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank’ LP, but you can find it now in their recently…

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The Cribs Release ‘Cheat On Me’ Early

The Cribs new single ‘Cheat On Me’ has been released three weeks early to ‘beat the leakers’. In a press release to fans, lead singer Ryan Jarman had this to say, “Hey kids, Instead of buying a McDonalds burger this Monday please buy our new single “Cheat On Me” from iTunes. We’re releasing it almost a month early on the 3rd of August to beat the leakers. If you care about the band then please…

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Marilyn Manson threatens journalists (or how he’s being an attention whore again… )

I don’t know why this even surprises me, but I guess it’s worth point out what a shy, crying little girl Marilyn Manson is. He is, really, take a look at his latest blog post on myspace. I can, but do not need to defend myself And the absurd accusations that the average press has clinged onto. If we need a nude photo of me to prove that I am far different than the soon-to-be-murdered-in-their-home…

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