Prepare yourself for baggy pastel suits and gratuitous sax solos, as I try to avoid a ban pun incorporating the bands only US hit, “True”, Q has the scoop on these former New Romantics. This really is just wholly unnecessary. But I guess if The Outfield is still touring, these guys could justify it too. […]

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Hahahaha. Looks like Pete Doherty’s band is sick of his flaky shit. Doherty allegedly disappears for weeks on end, spending time with his girlfriend Kate Moss. The band has been reduced to sneaking up on Doherty at a solo gig to confront him with a ‘Kate Moss or us’ threat. Hahahaha. Yeah, I’m sure that’ll […]

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For years, the self-involved diarrhea-diary-entry-style lyrics of Bright Eyes sent me over the edge, not to mention the fact that Conor Oberst’s affected trembling in and out of key made my skin crawl. I’m not sure of the moment I softened on the subject of Bright Eyes, but I think it was around the time […]

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Having fled the UK for child pornography charges, glam rock joke Gary Glitter is currently trying to obtain a reduction in his three year sentence for “obscene acts with a child.” He’s hoping that a reduction could coincide with “an amnesty that marks Vietnam’s Liberation Day on April 30.” Glitter’s been listed as a sex […]

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NME reports that Radiohead has posted a video featuring clips of new material its working on for the follow-up to Hail to the Thief. The video is the work of The Vapour Brothers, who directed “I Might Be Wrong” off 2001’s Amnesiac. In typically cryptic fashion, the video is prefaced by Thom Yorke thusly: “This […]

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The soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s half of Grindhouse, Death Proof, comes in a bad ass limited edition leatherette puffy sleeve with foil stamped logo. The LP vinyl version has a unique blood splatter on each record, and it’s also available as a 7″ box set. Tarantino certainly knows how to market his junk. The soundtrack itself is packed […]

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The plan is to record new versions of songs off Sgt. Pepper to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Beatles’ landmark album’s release, but the question is why? Other bands signed up for what will inevitably be an aural shit stew are Razorlight, James Morrison, The Fratellis, and Travis. God, how completely awful just reading these names together, […]

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