It seems every where i turn i can’t shake Billy Corgan, the man’s everywhere. This time he sheds some light on the much controversial Tarantula single cover, depicting Paris Hilton holding a BlackBerry with the Zeitgeist album cover on the screen, and a low-resolution image of a mushroom cloud in the background. Here’s how Billy convinced the oh-so ‘popular’ Paris Hilton to pose for the cover: ( via Blabbermouth) Actually the original idea was we…
Interpol: ‘The Heinrich Maneuver’ (Phones remix)
Paul Epworth, producer of such bands a: Babyshambles, Bloc Party, Maximo Park, The Rakes etc. just released a robotized version of [tag]Interpol[/tag]’s hit single “The Heinrich Maneuver”, from their smashing new album “Our Love To Admire”. Check out the remix’s streaming at Interpol’s myspace profile
The Automatic with first US tour
The welsh quartet [tag]The Automatic[/tag] have revealed details concerning their first upcoming US headline tour, in support of their recent new record “Not Accepted Anywhere”. The band will begin touring North America from July 26, when they can be seen at NY’s Bowery Ballroom, after which they will cross country the US, make a stop in Toronto’s Mod Club on August 1, before finally calling it closed on August 8 when they will be playing…
The search for the Siamese Dream cover twins
In another publicity stunt, [tag]Smashing Pumpkins[/tag]’s frontman Billy Corgan is apparently looking the two twin Siamese girls, that were featured on the cover of SP’s most acclaimed and best album “Siamese Dream”. As seen on stereogum, quoting Corgan’s camp: In a bit of a fun story, The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for the young girls that adorned the album cover of their record, SIAMESE DREAM. They have most definitely aged to their teens at this…
The Snoop Dogg Reality Show
Infamous US raper [tag]Snoop Dog[/tag] recently got his own Reality TV show, on American cable network E! Entertainment, which will fallow Snoop and his three sons through their daily lives. “The juggling act that Snoop faces day-in, day-out between career and family is certain to resonate with our viewers,” said Ted Harbert. Yeah, i bet Snoop is really a devoted and loving father, all between his probation and drug hustle period of course.
The spirit moves Sinead O’Connor
The Irish singer-songwriter [tag]Sinead O’Connor[/tag] stated that she was obsessed with the 1971 film musical, Fiddler on the Roof. That was when she was a young girl. That is the same woman who would eventually tear up a picture of the Pope on live television and was later ordained a priest in the breakaway “independent Catholic” church. She said that “(But) one of the things that I loved, at the time that I was born,…
Tragically Hip hungry for more
They have been together for almost 25 years, yet very little about them has changed. The big boys from Kingston, Ont., are very much the same. They have sold many copies of their most recent CD, World Container in Canada but outside the border they have not experienced the same success. There is breakup on the horizon. They are just the same old Tragically Hip, and guitarist Paul Langlois says they couldn’t be happier about…
Rilo Kiley’s new album: ‘sexiest ever’ ?
The LA indie quintet [tag]Rilo Kiley[/tag] have finished recordings for their full length album called “Under The Blacklight”, due in August 20 and now they’ve started to shed some light in the obscurity of this new LP. I really liked their last 2004 release “More Adventurous”, so i was pretty much glad when is saw NME’s post, where they asked Rilo Kiley about this upcoming album’s sound. When asked Jenny Lewis and guitarist Blake Sennett…
Metallica with more details concerning upcoming LP
After a few weeks ago [tag]Metallica[/tag]’s drummer Lars Ulrich and bass player Robert Trujillo took the time to be interviewed, reveling details concerning their ’08 spring album, it’s time lead guitarist, Kirk Hammett, to show some love and provide a little more info on the much awaited upcoming release. Hammett confesses for MTV, in a interview, that the new album is, in playing style, somewhere between 1989’s …And Justice For All and its 1991 follow-up…
Bjork extends her tour with North American dates
The islandic diva [tag]Bjork[/tag] has maped 6 six more events to her tour, in support of her recent album “Volta”. The concerts will be performed this autumn, the fist one being held on September 8 in Toronto, while the last one will be held in New York’s Madison Square Garden on September 24.