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Radiohead covers Neil Young, video + mp3

While on tour, playing in Auburn, WA, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood moved close to each other and started playing a “Faust Arp” duet, like they always do shows, however… this time Thom forget the lyrics. Anyway, after a series of jokes and ramblings around the matter, to escape this somewhat embarrassing moment, the [...]

Download: Peter Bjorn and John - ‘Inland Empire’

There’s always something about Nordic indie music that makes it special, it’s really like nothing else. The band there have a unique approach to how they play their music, successfully blending electronic elements with rock amalgams. A perfect example is the Swedish power trio Peter Bjorn and John, a pragmatic band that’s managed to make [...]

Jack Osbourne on a quest to save his father’s image

Jack Osbourne came into the spotlight once with the highly popular TV reality series The Osbournes, that followed the entires Osbournes family through their daily lives. Surprisingly or not, the show really caught on the public ran on for four straight seasons. However, according to Jack Osbourne, Ozzy’s son, the show has really hurt his [...]

Bjork disses press for sexism

Bjork had some moderate differnces with the press this past weekend, when she reacted to an item in the The Reykjavík Grapevine crediting Valgeir Sigurðsson with writing the arrangements on her 2001 album Vespertine, although this was not the case at all. She took the liberty of correcting the respective article, offering the true [...]

New Kooks video: ‘Sway’ + new live MP3

Never really liked The Kooks, although their music sometimes strikes me as sounding more then decent. Think it’s because I have a certain antipathy for the lead singer, although, again, I have no solid reason for doing so. Guess I just don’t like his face, ha! Anyway, the band’s more then ok, and The Kooks’ [...]

Arctic Monkeys set to record new album with QOTSA

Alex Turner’s Arctic Monkeys are quite the workaholics, apparently, with a new record every year, or at least that’s what the band makes us think. After the 2006 extraordinary debut, and last year’s “Favorite Worst Nightmare“, the Arctic Monkeys are now preparing to head back to the studio to work on a new album, albeit [...]

New Music Monday: 25 August

We had a few weeks of kinda modest releases in the past, but the situation seems to have come back to its normal summer season self, as September’s dawn is about to begin, and with it a bundle of awesome new material. Now, the biggest thing this week is probably the new Verve album. I [...]

Metallica speaks about Death Magnetic ‘We Could Not Have Made A Better Album’

The new Metallica album is getting hotter and hotter, and it’s just making us more and more interested and frantic about it. After the single, the new video, Cyanide, now we have the words of the masters of puppets themselves, talking about their new release. In the latest issue of Kerrang! magazine, you could read an [...]

Nickelback get on board with legendary AC/DC producer

In what seems to be a great step forward for the Canadians, Nickelback reported they shook hands with legendary producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange on their 6th album, which they will start working on. Mutt Lange is best known for working with metal gods AC/DC on their Highway to Hell and Back in Black. He has [...]

Noel Gallagher speaks about P2P and Internet Piracy

Noel Gallagher, the Oasis lead guitarist, semi-frontman and overall douche-bag, paid Zane Lowe a visit the other day, at the latter’s BBC Radio 1 show which he moderates. There, Noel talked about Jay-Z’s response to the Glastonbury scandel, as he listened to the Oasis dis song Jockin’ Jay-Z for the first time,’ stupid informed [...]