Q is reporting that Lou Reed will be touring his 1973 album, Berlin, across Europe beginning in June in Brussels. Says Reed, “I only do this every 30 years. One time, one time only.” Sort of a contradictory statement there. One time only every 30 years, what?

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The Life and Times is slowly turning into the colossal beast it’s always intended to be. On this EP for Japan’s Stiff Slack records, Allen Epley unleashes his heaviest riffs since Shiner’s heyday. But the atmospherics are just as potent, as the band eschews technical bravado in favor of a taut synergy.

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Ugh.  So Amy Winehouse mentions weed in a song.  Who cares?  She says fuck all over the place and those songs remain.  One drug reference gets a track pulled?  Universal American should be horse-whipped. This is completely absurd. What are they trying to market her as?  I knew I should have just bought the import…  

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Slate thinks so. It’s calling The Arcade Fire “The Great Rock Hope”, drawing its argument from an alleged “indie rock cult of Bruce Springsteen.” The Hold Steady’s obsession with the Boss is obvious. The Killers, not so much. Cheesy moustaches and tucked-in flannel shirts barely qualify as a Bruce Springsteen homage, and there’s not a […]

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According to this Morrissey zine, The Moz is returning to “vulgar” America to support Ringleader of the Tormentors, his latest, ho-hum record (You Are The Quarry actually wasn’t half bad). Despite the new album’s lackluster appeal, I still want to see Morrissey live. He’s one of those teenage idols I’ve yet to see. No Southeast […]

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Lily Allen has accused Apple of bullying musicians into providing exclusive content for iTunes. Color me iSurprised. “Allen claimed Apple pushed her to quickly produce a new version of a song for sale on iTunes, so she planned to give them a “rubbish remix”.”

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