Watford punk act [tag]Gallows[/tag] are set to prove that punk’s not quite finished yet and are preparing the release of a new single: “In The Belly Of The Shark”. The track’s off their debut album “Orchestra Of Wolves” and is set to be in a store near you on September 17 in CD and two 7″ singles(it includes a cover of Hot Snakes’ ‘If Credit’s What Matters I’ll Take Credit’). The singles sounds as aggressive…
MySpace is in the mainstream and it helped many singers make it big. Sean Kingston had his debut single Beautiful Girls crack the Billboard charts in mid-June and is averaging more than a million plays each week on his MySpace site. “Yeah, I’m searching on MySpace right now, I got about 150,000 (friends),” the 17-year-old says on the line from California. “Everybody that is on there is showing me some love. I mean, I don’t…
Hilary Duff is used to people waiting to get her autograph, but yesterday morning they got in line for a helping of coleslaw from the popular singer and actress. She was in Edmonton for last night’s concert at Rexall Place and she went to the downtown Hope Mission earlier in the day to volunteer as a server in the lunch line. Most of the people probably wondered who Duff was and most were glad to…
In their homeland. They may be underclass, but [tag]Sum 41[/tag] are heroes in the eyes of a few Canadians. The band’s fifth studio album, “Underclass Hero,” topped the Canadian album charts this week on unremarkable sales of just over 9,000 copies, Nielsen SoundScan reports. This is the first album they made without the guitarist Dave Baksh. They are doing fine in the U.S. where they are at No. 7, selling 45,000 copies. Back in the…
The Rolling Stone Keith Richards is working on a memoir, the object of a multimillion-dollar bidding war that will be published by Little, Brown and Company in 2010. Would be nice to find out what he would have said in the 70s or 80 about publishing something like that in 2010. “It will be his life’s story,” Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch said Tuesday. “For nearly 50 years, he has been at the very centre…
Interview Magazine recently conducted a interview with [tag]White Stripes[/tag] frontman Jack White, as part of their Cover Story. Some very interesting points were covered, among them marriage, Icky Thump and … jurnalists, whom according to Jack are about as lazy as a pack of slugs. Here’s a snippet from the interview. Remember to read the whole thing here. MD: A lot has already been written about Icky Thump. What have people gotten right and what…
The new [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag] single “The Pretender”, due to be out on September 10, has been leaked all over the internet, after being played in a world exclusive on KROQ so now anyone can download and listen it. The song’s great, with the classic Foo Fighterish stadium anthem vibe and sound, great riffage and powerful Dave Grohl vocals. All we can do now is wait for the full album, “Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace”, to…
After making a name out of herself in the movie business, acclaimed actress [tag]Scarlett Johansson[/tag] is set to make her appearance in the music world as well. You may have first listened to a glimpse of her vocal talents in “Summertime” for Unexpected Dreams – Songs from the Stars, a collection of songs recorded by Hollywood actors and most recently at the Coachella Festival, California where she sang with The Jesus And Mary Chain as…
A few months ago an announcement at [tag]Bjork[/tag]’s website opened a ‘YouTube like’ video contest for the Islandic diva’s track “Innocence” of the recent “Volta” LP. Innocence is to be made as video. An idea is born. The idea is to make the video. The video to Innocence, a song of yet to be released Volta record. Who is to make the video? Another idea is born: It is to be you, my dear! Anyone…
Chicago’s own [tag]Common[/tag], who just recently released his veritable seventh LP “Finding Forever”, made a freestyle hip-hop performance for AOL’s 16 Bars. There he said, amongst other things, that “to be able to rap is a blessing; it’s a gift”, and afterwards unleashed some his rap phenomena, spitting rhymes and beats all over the place. After the rap session Common did a small interview as well, check it out at AOL. Here’s a snippet: Tell…
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