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Thursday, February 21st, 2008From the NME
Freebass, the group consisting of The Smiths’ Andy Rourke, New Order’s Peter Hook and The Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani, have revealed their new singer.
Gary Briggs, formerly of Cornish-by-Manchester band Haven, will join the trio, alongside a number of celebrity guests.
Speaking to BBC 6Music, Peter Hook said: “We have had trouble […]
Anyone got a spare US$3m + ??
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008This is making me drool, tho’ I’d have nowhere to put it all!
The World’s Greatest Music Collection : 3 Million Records, 300,000 CDs, 6 million+ Song Titles
Fuller story here at Idolator
Bill
Sleeveface!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Because the internet is a wonderful thing, allow me to present the joys of Flickr group sleeveface, which is well worth a browse:
There’s plenty more where that came from.
Bill
My list is BIGGER than your list!
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 […]
Control radio
Friday, November 9th, 2007To celebrate the release of Control, the Ian Curtis biopic (it’s just out in the States now too, y’know!) Viva Radio (aided & abetted by the most excellent Dan Selzer of Acute Records) have put together a 7 part radio special for your listening pleasure.
Including large chunks of the Factory Records catalogue, lots of Joy […]
If you (like me) couldn’t make it to the Cure in Auckland in August…
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Here’s the next best thing (kinda)! Download the entire gig (all 35 tracks) here from Kiwi Concerts, a newish blog ‘celebrating great concerts that took place in New Zealand’.
There’s some other good stuff there too, such as this Wellington gig from the Mozfather himself in 1991, the Zep from 1972 (!!), and plenty more […]
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 […]
