The Vaccines’ Justin Young: ‘Rihanna is as important as Radiohead’

There’s some misunderstanding in The Vaccines, that’s for sure. Earlier this year, guitarist Freddie Cowan came out strong to criticize Rihanna, explaining she isn’t a real artist. “Rihanna isn’t an artist – she has 15 writers, 15 songwriters and 15 producers all fighting for space on her albums and she’s the face of it. I have nothing against it, but I don’t want to be associated with it.” Everything seemed fine, it’s a valid point…

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Watch Bjork up to her waist in sand in her new video [unlisted video

Bjork and MOCA have just released the music video Biophilia’s “Mutual Core”, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang (who also did the artwork for the Biophilia remix album). The video is unlisted, meaning you can only see it if you have the link, you can’t find it by searching. The explosive video features Bjork upto her waist in sand, surrounded by weird strange, lurking, licking creatures. As it turns out, these are definitely not the creatures…

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Rolling Stones announce New Your tour date

The Rolling Stones have announced plans to play the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on December 8. The show will come after the iconic band’s gigs at London’s O2 Arena on November 25 and 29, and before their previously announced shows in New Jersey at the Prudential Center in Newark on December 13 and 15. Tickets go on sale on November 19. There’s been a lot of discussion about the 100 pound tickets (over…

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Benny Benassi: ‘I’m not even sure what house music is anymore’

Push me and then just touch me Till I can get my satisfaction, satisfaction Benny Benassi I recently came across this really nice interview with Benny Benassi, in which he discusses Madonna, the bike tour of California, and house music. Quite a great read. You’re currently on your Rough Road bus tour, tell us a little bit about that and where the idea came from? After the bike tour of California I did a couple…

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Sebastian Bach will “revolutionize music”

Former Skid Row singer announced he is currently working on a project which will “revolutionize popular music as we know it”. He made the announcement on his facebook page. Seriously, now? At this point of musical evolution, you’d hardly expect anyone to revolutionize music, let alone Sebastian Bach, who, albeit being crazy talented and quite lovable, is not quite the innovative type. He gave no other indications about this “top secret project”, so we’ll just…

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Watch Amanda Palmer’s new video: Do It With a Rockstar

Source. Amanda Palmer The video for Do It With a Rockstar which is actually co-directed by and features Wayne Coyne, has the all elements of a punk rock-cabaret video and even more. It contains nudity, so keep out from children, a rock show, transvestites, lesbians, mohawks, gothic make-up,sex which all end up in a great chaos – isn’t this what punk-rock’s all about? Do It With a Rockstar was released in June this year…

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Soundgarden stream new album: King Animal

Source. Soundgarden – King Animal Soundgarden’s new album, King Animal, which will be officially released on 12th November this year, is now available on ZME Music where you can listen to it freely as long as you want. This album is really great and if 15 years of break is what it takes to make such an album, I think that it was worth the wait. Asked about the album, Soundgarden’s…

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Listen to the new Deftones album: Koi No Yokan – online, for free

Source. Deftones – Koi No Yokan The 7th Deftones album, which is set to be released on 13th November this year, is finally free for everybody to listen to. Earlier this year they actually released two songs from this upcoming album: “Tempest” and “Leathers”; introducing the fans to the idea of this new album: Koi No Yokan. The band kpet alive their particular vibe and also succeeded to add new elements…

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Lady Gaga rejected Madonna’s offer to sing onstage together

Source. Best friends: Lady Gaga and Madonna During a performance in St. Paul, Minn, Madonna told the crowd: You know, I invited her onstage to sing with me. But, she turned me down. It’s OK. I’ve been rejected before. It builds a little character. All I can say now, is that, I can really understand Lady Gaga, who wants to kiss an old lady on stage (if you don’t understand what I…

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