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Burial reveals his identity + releases new 12″

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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Burial is quite possibly the most enigmatic artist in the last few years, releasing two highly well regarded albums, in almost complete anonymity. He’s a totally focused individual, who cares about nothing but his music; his own person comes in second place. Add that to his London underground dubstep music, and you’ve got a really [...]

New Music Monday: 5 August

Monday, August 4, 2008

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The summer is the most fruitous period for music of the year, but then there’s that mid-season interval between smashing LPs where things get a bit slow and we get a chance to cool off a bit. Consider this week one of these summer breaks, with more modest releases, but interesting enough to keep your [...]

Download: Kings of Leon - ‘Crawl’

Sunday, August 3, 2008

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Ah, the kings are back. No, not Elvis impersonators (the ’80s are long gone, thank God!), but fellow Tennesse southern rockers Kings of Leon, with a new album eaching to see the light of day, and a new single to match it too. “Crawl” is the name of the first song released by KoL (as [...]

Russia in a ‘Spiritual and Ethical Crisis’ because of emos?

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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Oh, people never leave these poor people alone, do they? First there was that really awesome cruel emo witch-hunt back in Mexico, then there was that all press mambo jambo going on with an English teenage emo who killed herself, now to top things off the State Duma is thinking about passing a law to [...]

R.I.P. Be Your Own Pet

Saturday, August 2, 2008

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Yesterday brought some sad news, folks. Our favorite post punkers, the Nashville quartet Be Your Own Pet just announced through a press release on their MySpace blog, that the band will officially disband soon. “To all of our fans, we are sad to bring you the news that our upcoming shows in the UK are going [...]

Velvet Revolver Announce New Singer

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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The question that was on the lips of millions of people has now been answered; Shirley Halperin of Entertainment Weekly made public the announcement that band fans were waiting for more than a couple of months already. Royston Langdon, frontman for Spacehog and also the estrange husband of Liv Tyler will be the new singer [...]

MEGADETH To Start Recording In The Fall

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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It’s official now, metal masters Megadeth are going to start work on another studio effort, which will definitely please all of us. This comes after the dvd set, called Warchest and their previous album, United Abominations. Here’s what Dave McRobb, Megadeth’s official webmaster had to say, via the website: “So…. I was talking to my beloved [...]

Metallica Live in Bucharest

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Wednesday, 23 July, I had the luck of being at a Metallica concert, in Bucharest, at Cotroceni stadium. Living not that far from it and knowing the city pretty much, I arrived early in the morning to check some parts of the city. Some good and bad news came up from then: some parts of [...]

Fergie rallies Slash for gig

Thursday, July 24, 2008

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So here we are boys and girls, and once again it’s WTF Time. This weekend, while Fergie was singing in Coast Mesa, California, Slash joined her on the stage to sing some tunes, including Sweet Child O’ mine and Heart’s “Barracuda.”. As you can probably guess from that moment Slash totally had the fans, leaving [...]

New Radiohead video: ‘House of Cards’ + making of

Saturday, July 19, 2008

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I was really impressed and ecstatic about the new Radiohead video, for In Rainbows slow jam “House Of Cards,” when I first talk about it last week. Now, finally, the video has surfaced on the web (well actually it’s been on for a few good days now, but I’ve been away and stuff like that) [...]

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