To watch the Battles feature on Vice TV go here. The host hangs out with the band, watches them eat, and checks out all their crazy equipment that makes those sweet, sweet yet mostly unrecognizable sounds.

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Good Christ Billy Corgan is insane: “Here is what you must understand: Nothing has changed since 1999, except my budget. And Pro Tools. I am still the same alt-rock messiah I was. You are still my teenage flock.” Plenty more lunacy to be had in his rambling, crazily deluded letter to fans and critics alike. […]

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We *heart* Music has a nice little write up on the Riot Grrrls of yore. (though, as VU mentions “Let’s be clear about this, this is not a definitive guide to all things Riot Grrrl, but just some selections of music that I have and liked.”) Just a nice stroll down memory lane (with mp3s!) […]

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Billy Corgan personally asked Paris Hilton to be photographed for his band’s “reunion” album, Zeitgeist. Her herpetic visage also adorns the UK version of the “Tarantula” single. If you happen to touch it, be sure to have some salve on hand. And more importantly, why on earth would Billy Corgan do this? Laughable grab for […]

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This song is off one of my favorite 7″s of all time- the Lincoln/Hoover split on Art Monk Construction records from 1993. I can’t believe there’s a video of Lincoln on youtube. This song is fucking amazing- searing and from the gut. Technically, this is emo, but it’s the strain that was born out of […]

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This October Hawthorne St. Records will issue The Life and Times’ debut long-player, Suburban Hymns, on vinyl for the first time. The CD version was originally put out back in 2005 on DC’s DeSoto. Since the release of The Magician EP last fall on Japan’s Stiff Slack Records, the band has been working on new […]

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Bassist Alex James has admitted he may be deluded about Blur’s chances for a reunion. “I think about Blur, that there is a chance we can get back together and make something really brilliant, but then I’m probably deluded as well. I think with Blur it was never really quite resolved emotionally, with Graham leaving […]

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