Mika and Take That lead the Brit Award noms

The BRITs, are the British Phonographic Industry’s annual music awards. This year they seem to be very interesting with nominees including Montreal band Arcade Fire, Toronto singer Leslie Feist and Vancouver crooner Michael Buble. That is just naming a few. Arcade Fire were nominated for best international group, while their CD, “Neon Bible” is up for best international album. Feist is going to compete in the category of best international female artist, while Buble was…

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Ludacris to play during Super Bowl week

  Well Tom Petty may be the official Super Bowl performer (sort of) but the week leading up the Superbowl is going to feature a whole lot of other performance including the 30-year-old rapper known as Ludacris. He has been selected to play at ESPN The Magazine’s Next party Feb. 1, which will highlight future trends in sports, technology and lifestyle. These are the kind of events which you don’t pick; they pick you.”(It) feels…

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Radiohead air new webcast live on 8 PM London time

I sense a disturbance in the force ! [tag]Radiohead[/tag] must be up to something … again and their not being very discrete, although as always surprising. If you’ve had loads of fun with the Brits previous webcasts, thumbs down and scotch_mist, then you’ll be thrilled to know that the band have announced, as always though their deadairspace, a brand new live webcast on radiohead.tv, tonight! The cast will air sometime around 8-ish, London time, from…

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Rise Against with new LP details

Chicago punk four piece. [tag]Rise Against[/tag], have just posted some updates, regarding the progress of their still untitled fifth album, on the band’s website. After wrapping up a busy year of touring with the Taste of Chaos. a handful of radio shows and two holiday shows in Canada, we were spent and glad to get home. Presently we are writing and demo-ing for what will become our next record. Don’t expect it too soon, we’re…

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The Gorillaz cookie game

If you’re trying to occupy yourself with something fun or just make the time run faster at work, then I warmly recommend a little game web based game I’ve been playing for hours now, called Gorillaz Cookie Game. Obviously the purpose of the game is to eat as many cookies as possible in a given time limit. Play the game on Facebook now and be sure the boss doesn’t sees you.

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Wednesday smilejerker: 101 rules of power metal

Now before you venture on to read this there is a thing you should know; I listen to a lot of power metal and pretty much every kind of *cough*true*cough* good metal there is.Yes and I spend some time with www.metalstorm.ee; that’s where I found this list which is just delicious, provided you know what it is about. Hope you enjoy it and find it at least as half as funny as I did; oh…

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Ringo Starr: ‘Liverpool 8’

Artist name: Ringo Starr Album name: Liverpool 8 Label: Capitol Gender: Pop/Rock Release date: January 15, 2008 ZMErating: 9 and 1/2 Website: www.ringostarr.com Well most of the people who listened to [tag]The Beatles[/tag] could identify themselves with a member of the band; Paul played the role of the cute, loveable Beatle, John took the smart guy’s place, George was the quiet one and Ringo Starr was the lighthearted dude. He was never the songwriting mastermind…

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My Morning Jacket unveil release date for new LP + ads tour dates

Since they first popped out on the mainstream radar, with the critical acclaimed release Z, the Louisville quintet hasn’t quite fancied itself in making public appearances, apart from the usual gigs. If you add that to almost 3 years of non existing new material, you could MMJ is kinda holding back on us, details, however, concerning their much anticipated upcoming, still untitled album, have emerged. For now what we know is that the recordings are…

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Win Butler backs Obama and criticizes Hillary C.

We usually don’t like to talk about politics, actually I personally hate it, but [tag]Arcade Fire[/tag] frontman, Win Butler, recent statement is worth posting, as it sums a bunch of sentiments, I myself had accumulated during these seemingly neverending election campaigns. Although Win rarely update’s his blog scrapbook, he makes it up for it with incendiary posts, like his recent outburst against Hillary Clinton’s “bullshit” (I’m quoting, cut the crap), in which he heavily criticizes…

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