Between Peter Hook’s barely intelligible Myspace blogs and his bandmates’ formal PR announcements, it’s obvious that the members of New Order aren’t on the best of terms. Rolling Stone caught up with vocalist/guitarist Bernard Sumner to try to clear things up a bit. In response to Hook’s declaration that the band is finished, Sumner says, […]

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It’s rarely amusing when obscure indie artists integrate mainstream mega-hits into their own songs as some sort of winking ironic statement, but Patrick Wolf’s snippet of Rihanna’s “Umbrella” is particularly painful and awful. The only band I can think of that pulled this type of smirking smugness off with any consistency whatsoever was The Dismemberment […]

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Veering hard back to its spastic garage roots on the new Is Is EP, Yeah Yeah Yeahs tore it up on Letterman the other night. Karen O is doing her best Siouxsie Sioux in space.

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Never mind his latest by-the-numbers pastiche of soul-funk-pop, Planet Earth, or how he chooses to distribute it. Prince is still a complete freak. The purple goblin has asked demanded that his hotel suite in London (where he is in residence for three weeks) be not only painted black, but all furniture, drapes, and accessories must […]

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The new White Stripes video is for the second single off Icky Thump, “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” Pretty simple, no frills. Good stuff.

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Tricky is still around? Trip hop certainly died an ugly death by the turn of the century, and no one represents the downfall better than former Massive Attack contributor, Tricky, whose gravelly rapping style landed him a record deal with 4th & Broadway in 1994. Peaking creatively on your debut is never a good thing, […]

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The mighty Grifters captured in an undated show playing a blistering version of “Holmes” off its second record, Crappin’ You Negative, released on its own Shangri-La Records. This Memphis band played a noisy brand of deconstructed blues-rock that got mistaken for indie rock in the mid-90’s because of its lo-fi production values (or extreme lack […]

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