Foo Fighters on a ‘very long brake’ [hiatus]

Sad news for Foo fans everywhere, today, after Dave Grohl stated the band will be taking a “long break” from music and have warned fans not to expect a new album any time soon. “We’ve never really taken a long break, I think it’s time,” he told BBC Radio 1’s DJ Chris Moyles, who he also told the Foos will now officially go on hiatus then return with a new sense of purpose further down…

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Lily Allen set to release new album in 2009

After her debult album, “Alright, Still,” made a lot of waves in the Brit pop scene, Lily Allen is ready to take things to the next level with her upcoming sophomore album, “Stuck on The Naughty Step,” in which she’ll try to make a bit of sound transition from Ska to electro-pop, while still retaining her well written verses. Apparently, the album is already written and recorded for over a month, but complication with her…

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Original Rolling Stones logo art work sold for $92.500

Some Rolling Stones fans wearing T-shirts with the famous logo.

What’s considered by many, the first form of band marketing and branding, the original Rolling Stones’ “The Tongue” logo art work, has been sold to a London Museum for the impressive sum of $92.500. The Tongue was designed by John Pasche in 1970 and got featured for the first time on 1971’s Sticky Fingers. In what was perhaps one of the…

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Oasis frontman attacked on stage at Toronto’s Virgin Festival [video]

Haha, you gotta give it to those Canadians, they really know how to crash a party. During Oasis’ set on last night’s Toronto Virgin Festival, right in the middle of “Morning Glory,” a dude from the crowd came from out of the nowhere and put a good shuv on Noel Gallagher, causing him to fell off the stage. The band took some good 10 minutes to recover and then returned to complete their set. In…

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Kanye with what’s possibly a new album + tours

At last Sunday’s Disney VMA’s Kanye West premiered a new song, performing the new drumline-backed Love Lockdown (stereogum). Now, apparently Kanye’s not only rolling out new songs, but also a new album. No official word has been released by either Kanye or his publicist, but retail sites like Amazon and Target are listing LP4 under the title 808’s & Heartbreak with a release date of 12/16, so this seems as real as it can be….

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Coldplay to release new EP by the end of the year + new LP in ’09

Coldplay have been really busy this year, after recording for a few good months in Spain’s Catalunia what would be their latest record “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” and then going out on a huge world tour to support it. However, it seems the grueling recording sessions, with producer Brian Eno, resulted  in a lot of excess material; enough even for two albums! Anyway, Chris Martin just announced, while talking on…

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Foo Fighters join Metallica on ‘Death Magnetic’ listening party

A few months ago Dave Grohl wrote an open letter to metal gods Metallica, urging them not to ‘release it until it kicks ass!’ Now, with only a few weeks before Death Magnetic hits the shelves, things are getting really tense and Metallica wants to make everybody proud, even the Foo Fighters. So, with this in mind joining Metallica on September 4th for a live Death Magnetic listening party, from the Metallica HQ, will be…

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Jack Osbourne on a quest to save his father’s image

Believe it or not, this is Jack Osbourne. Quite the makeover...

Jack Osbourne came into the spotlight once with the highly popular TV reality series The Osbournes, that followed the entires Osbournes family through their daily lives. Surprisingly or not, the show really caught on the public ran on for four straight seasons. However, according to Jack Osbourne, Ozzy’s son, the show has really hurt his father reputation depicting him as…

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Bjork disses press for sexism

Bjork had some moderate differnces with the press this past weekend, when she reacted to an item in the The Reykjavík Grapevine crediting Valgeir Sigurðsson with writing the arrangements on her 2001 album Vespertine, although this was not the case at all. She took the liberty of correcting the respective article, offering the true full credits of the album and then went on and accuessed the journalists of sexism, not necessarily the Grapevine, but rather…

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Arctic Monkeys set to record new album with QOTSA

Alex Turner’s Arctic Monkeys are quite the workaholics, apparently, with a new record every year, or at least that’s what the band makes us think. After the 2006 extraordinary debut, and last year’s “Favorite Worst Nightmare”, the Arctic Monkeys are now preparing to head back to the studio to work on a new album, albeit chances for it getting released in 2008 are very slim. Joining them, however, on the new record is none other…

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