Japanese noise experimentalists Boredoms have always taken the road dared to be traveled, and the band’s plans for July 7, 2007 are no exception. With 77 drummers in tow, the band will perform 77BOADRUM as a one-time-only, free show in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park section of Brooklyn Bridge Park. 74 players from New York’s […]

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I never got the chance to see My Bloody Valentine live. I’d always heard they were insanely loud, but this video really hammers that point home. Jesus, those guitars sound like they are erupting. I can’t imagine that the crowd could hear anything for days after that show. As one youtube commenter put it: “take […]

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Having just finished all of her obligatory appearances in the US, Lily Allen has holed up in a New York City apartment to write the follow-up to her breakthrough, Alright, Still. She’s again working with production duo Futurecut, but she’s in no hurry to get any product out, saying: “The songs I’ve written so far […]

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Depeche Mode frontman, Dave Gahan, is set to release his second solo album, entitled Hourglass this October. It’s the follow-up to 2003’s respectable offering, Paper Monsters, which proved that Gahan could actually write a tune without Martin Gore’s ever-presence. Gahan on the new record: “We were very aware of the importance of keeping urgency in […]

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Rivers Cumo posted on Weezer’s website two days ago that his band is “just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which we aim to put out in the first half […]

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The new issue of Wired recently reminded me that the new release from German shoegazer Ulrich Schnauss is nearly upon us Stateside residents. Goodbye, Schnauss’ third full-length will be released through the US arm of Domino Records on July 10th. Catch some streaming tracks at MySpace, per usual [Stars is highly recommended].

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Mark E. Smith + Mouse on Mars. The man is a God among mere mortals. More at MySpace.

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