To serve as a preview of its forthcoming The Black & White Album, The Hives have just released a six-song pack at iTunes today, which includes one bonus track not featured on the regular album (and written for the Cartoon Network’s fall season).  Tracklist: Tick Tick BoomTry It AgainYou Got It All..WrongWon’t Be LongWell All Right […]

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Sure, I guess eight years ago counts as retro, especially considering people’s attention spans today. This video is practically ancient history. “Future World” was the title track off Trans Am’s 1999 album, and this extremely lo-fi video manages to balance the band’s inherent silliness with its aloof, art school pretentiousness. And it’s a kick ass, […]

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It’s almost as amusing as it is disheartening when pop stars get political. It’s infinitely more bizarre, though, when British pop stars weigh in on American politics. I remember seeing Sting on his Nothing Like the Sun tour when I was a wee lad (it was my first concert ever), and he tore into George Bush 41. Even […]

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Cracked has compiled a list of the ’10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fistfights’, which is more amusing than you might think, especially #7 on the list: Mick Jagger vs. Charlie Watts. Charlie Watts has always been known as the classiest and most reserved member of The Rolling Stones, but now he can add biggest bad ass in the […]

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Uh-oh. All those Facebook proponents who snootily claim its superiority to Myspace are poised to eat some crow, if NME gossip is to be believed. The rumor is that Facebook is preparing to launch a music platform to compete directly with Myspace’s ubiquitous artist pages. The portal will also integrate with Apple’s iTunes, allowing band’s easy […]

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Simon Reynolds clearly understands Joy Division’s music, mystery, and cultural significance, as evidenced by his impressive review of Anton Corbijn’s biopic, Control, in yesterday’s New York Times. In fact, there are few other writers I’d want to read on the subject: “Yet there’s one crucial factor mentioned in Touching From a Distance that ‘Control’ strangely […]

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Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session from November of 1993 is finally coming out on DVD November 20 via Universal Music. It’s so annoying how record companies hold back on goods just to milk the market every few years, but, sadly, this horse is primed for an unending flogging, since Kurt Cobain has been unwittingly appointed the […]

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