While Gwen Stefani tours her second record, The Sweet Escape, the three remaining members of No Doubt have been busy tracking songs for a new album. The band claims to have “four album’s worth of ideas demoed”, and Stefani will have input from the road. It’s been six years since No Doubt’s Rock Steady, which […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/yiHWOWBOBZ0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Seeing the Cows live was a glorious thing to behold. Lead singer Shannon Selberg would screech his way through unintelligible verses, shirtless, and with a giant cartoon penis drawn as though slung over his shoulder. The band’s darkly hilarious yet tuneless mayhem was far scarier than any punk rock, […]

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Details of Duran Duran’s collaboration with Justin Timberlake have been revealed, which is presumably the reason why reunited guitarist Andy Talyor quit for a second time, causing the band to scrap a completed album and start from scratch. The band’s forthcoming new album is finished and also features multiple collaborations with ubiquitous producer Timbaland and […]

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Despite Alex James’ upbeat assurance that all four members of Blur would reconvene in the studio this August, new reports reveal that nothing is yet set in stone. James has changed his tune slightly on the possible reunion activities: “There’s no point in doing it unless all of us want to because that was what […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ma9I9VBKPiw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This is the second single off Favourite Worst Nightmare, which is quickly becoming one of my favorites of the year so far. The video itself takes the album’s title literally, and it’s easily the band’s best.

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Everyone’s favorite card carrying anti-capitalists, The (International) Noise Conspiracy has just finished recording a new album with producer Rick Rubin. The band’s last record for Rubin’s American Records, Armed Love, sat on the shelf for months with due to a distribution snafu, so hopefully things will go much smoother this time. No release date is […]

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Marliyn Manson is picking a fight with My Chemical Romance, claiming that they’re stealing his schtick without giving him proper credit. This is amusing on so many levels. Does Marilyn Manson think he invented glam? Or shock rock ? Or even goth? Please. David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Bauhaus never asked Manson for credit. What […]

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