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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007You know how magazines & newspapers always seem to be printing lists of the best <genre> albums ever, or 100 albums you must hear before you do <activity X>? Well, the Guardian’s obviously trying to be the Daddy of ‘em all, as it has compiled 1000 albums you should listen to before you shuffle off […]
New Bloc Party Video, NME album download & more!
Friday, October 19th, 2007You can see the video for the new Bloc Party single Flux (due out in the UK on November 14) right here.
An intriguing tale of love and robots (plus giant monsters) set to a pounding Moroder-esque Eurobeat with a slightly vocoder-ed Kele. Fantastic! And well worth a look.
Also from the NME, you can download […]
Slash Story
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007In what could quite possibly be a better book than the Crue’s The Dirt, Guns N’ Roses own Slash has a story to tell. Guns! Drugs! Porn Stars! Axl! Drugs! More Drugs!! Even More Drugs!!!
‘Yeah, yeah, cool, man,’ I said. I slapped down the toilet-seat cover and cut out four thick lines of coke. […]
Debbie Does Hollywood?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME
Andrew Weatherall news
Friday, October 12th, 2007General all-round top geezer, genius and (kind of) Mick Jones lookalike Andrew Weatherall has a blog. Read it here.
And while we’re on the subject of the man himself, here’s a personal playlist he put together for a map of how he got from teenage glam fiend to Lone Swordsman. Includes everything from the buzzing […]
If you’re looking for the cover art for the new Radiohead album
Friday, October 12th, 2007that you just downloaded - the wait is over. Here you go:
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If you only have one hour of your life to listen to the Beatles…
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007…your prayers have been answered! The complete Beatles catalogue sped up 800% to fit an hour long mp3.
Details here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
Surprisingly enough, it’s pretty tough to listen to, but, things get more interesting/better when these sped up tracks are slowed back down again. Here’s Revolution & there’s a couple of other links at the site worth […]
Bloc Party, Monkeys announce new singles
Thursday, October 4th, 2007According to the NME, a new Bloc Party single called Flux will be out on November 12. Details here.
And everyone’s favourite Sheffield scallywags the Arctic Monkeys are to release Teddy Picker as the next single from Favourite Worst Nightmare on December 3.
And don’t forget - it’s all on this Saturday night down at The San […]
Just like waiting for a bus, along comes another Joy Division movie…
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Just when you thought Control may well be the only Joy Division related film you’d ever see, comes news of another, showing at the Toronto Film Festival (naturally enough alongside Control). The imaginatively titled Joy Division is directed by Grant Gee, who has also directed Radiohead’s Meeting People Is Easy movie. More info at Reuters […]
Hilly Kristal RIP
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Hilly Kristal, founder of legendary punk venue CBGB has died at the age of 75.Obituary from the NME here.
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