Shudder to Think vocalist Craig Wedren recently told Billboard that he and guitarist Nathan Larson have put aside all of the “venom and puss” that would preclude a reunion so as to move forward with playing together again. I’m not sure what sort of concoction venom and puss is exactly, but it sounds unpleasant. Nevertheless, […]

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Lily Allen is one party with Pete Doherty away from Amy Winehouse-ing her career. Since the success of her debut, Alright, Sill, Allen has made herself more than available for tabloid fodder. Mosty drunken shenanigans. Nothing too crazy. Luckily for her, Amy Winehouse’s spiral stairs are waaaay steeper, so Allen’s hijinks have mostly been forgettable. […]

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This is completely awesome. Taking cues from Robert Palmer’s notoriously expressionless mannequins (and, perhaps, the “prize-winning” lamp from A Christmas Story), Chromeo does the late Palmer one up by foregoing expressions altogether, as a dozen pair of illuminated legs dance subtly in the background. While Chromeo unleashes its nerdy white boy synth funk, these torso-less […]

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Who knew Abba had such strict principles when it came to cashing in on the reunion craze? Lead songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus told the Sunday Telegraph: We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were […]

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An interesting thing about Girl Talk is that alt musical historians are unwilling to concede whether he is mainstream or alt. When he first started out, he was apparently rlly conceptual. He played music that was crappy and no1 liked, and had to use gimmicks like ‘getting drunk’ and ‘having skanky backup dancers’ as he […]

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Duran Duran keyboardist, Nick Rhodes, recently told the Daily Mirror that his band would love a crack at the new James Bond theme for Quantum of Solace with producer Mark Ronson in tow. This would follow the band’s previous number one James Bond theme by 23 years. And Rhodes believes with Ronson’s help, “we may […]

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