In her continuing quest for bridging the gap between Detroit white trash and English nobility, Madonna has recorded a “special” song to benefit the Live Earth Concert in another public act of heroic altruism. “Hey You” (not a Pink Floyd cover, thankfully) will be available only for download, so it will not be sent to […]

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Hilarious piece raking Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, over the coals for the firing of their head chef for becoming pregnant. “To an employment tribunal in Southampton, if you can imagine anything so vulgar, where Trudie Styler and her husband Sting – possibly the least self-regarding people on the planet they have done so […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/y7AgpaeTaVw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] With Battles‘ debut full-length, Mirrored, a matter of days away from release (May 22), Warp Records has put together a promotional video, and it hilariously pieces together the disparate styles and personalities of all four members. Ex-Don Caballero guitarist Ian Williams is particularly amusing (dressed in a pink button […]

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As a staple on WRVU- Vanderbilt’s college radio station, Clockhammer was one of my favorite bands in high school. They were local to Nashville, Tennessee but got signed to First Warning records, which was a subsidiary of BMG, making them label-mates with bands like The Wedding Present. Success seemed imminent. Clockhammer played an early version […]

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No surprise here. Blabbermouth is reporting that Dave Navarro’s post-Jane’s Addiction travesty is “parting ways” with Capitol. Well, that’s how Navarro puts it in an official statement. “Parting ways” is putting it lightly. The Panic Channel’s debut sold a whopping 8,000 copies in its first week to land at number 108 on the Billboard Top […]

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Granted, not everyone at a Tool show is your typical metal meathead. To be fair, Tool tends to attract a slightly smarter brand of metal fan, but just statistically with the wide net that Tool casts there will undoubtedly be a high percentage of rednecks that will sit bewildered and flummoxed by Melt Banana’s frantic, […]

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The British press’ one-note (!) hype machine has cried wolf so many times over the years that Americans rarely even bother to read the headlines anymore, which may explain how the Klaxons have infiltrated our music press so innocently without even a whiff of disdain. They’ve been daubed with praise by English pens repeatedly for […]

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