The Week in Music: #43
Fri, Oct 30, 2009
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- Al is back with another fabulous entry to his weekly Radio Bile column. This time he tackles the subject of bad music…which we sometimes buy.
- U2’s “Spiderman Musical” has been delayed.
- The new Strokes album is packed with disagreement.
- Check out the 50 best album covers of the 2000s compiled by Gigwise.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
- Pop quiz with The Gossip’s Beth Ditto.
- I’ve missed CMJ again this year, a festival that, by all accounts, turned out just awesome! Paste has a list of the 10 best bands they’ve discovered at the festival.
- Original Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has finally offered up his opinion of ‘Chinese Democracy.
- The National and Vampire Weekend teach you how to play guitar!
- U2’s YouTube gig gained 2.5m viewers, The Sun reports.
- Pavement to headline Primavera Fest.
- Extremely rare and secret Beatles album found.
- Girls’ have released the music video for their latest single “Lust of Life” this week, and let me tell you - it’s NSFW like hell! Watch it at your own risk.
- This week, we’ve posted one of our biggest and most complicated feature column to date: The Top Albums of the Decade, in which try to rank and compile the best music that graced our ears in the past ten years. For this week we took on the year of 2000.
- The New Moon Soundtrack has risen to the #1 position in the Billboard chart.
- No Pulp reunion any time soon, sais Jarvis Cocker.
- Stone Temple Pilots have big plans for 2010, as a new album and huge tour have been mapped.
- Fail alert: the latest and worst Foo Fighters song to date.
- A trailer for “Nowhere Boy”, a John Lennon biopic, has recently been posted.
- Best Songs of the Decade: ‘Lose Yourself‘
- POLARITY is back!

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