The words Nine Inch Nails and hip rarely share the same paragraph, much less the same sentence, but with the announcement that Interscope’s last chance to make any money off Trent Reznor is a remix album, a few credible names have popped up. Evidently, the likes of Fennesz, The Faint, Ladytron, and New Order have […]

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Despite the overwhelmingly positive reviews for In Raindbows, Radiohead’s seventh studio album, MTV has evidently scoured the Internet to try to find some negative reactions to the much-hyped download. The negativity stems from the bitrate at which Radiohead allowed In Rainbows to be encoded. 160 kbps is considered sub-par by any remotely educated audiophile’s standards, but with a download for […]

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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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