A Guardian piece follows the recent shutdown of one of Britain’s retail music chains and its larger impact on the music industry’s constantly shifting business model. The good news is that specialty record shops are hopping, as collector’s vinyl, limited releases, and obscure bands still sell well; it’s the “supermarket-style” retailers that are biting the […]

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Live Earth set itself up for heaps of mockery with its massive energy consumption to raise awareness for, whoops, the conservation of energy (what little I could stomach bored me into oblivion). Whenever a parade of bandwagoning celebrities shove politics down your throat, it always comes off more than a tad disingenuous. And who better […]

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The Guardian takes a jab at the purple one’s latest single: “It sounds like a musical inferior doing an impression of Prince.” Ouch. But also, sadly, true. You can listen to the song and a watch a promotional video here. The new record, Planet Earth, is out July 24 in the US on Sony/BMG. In […]

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I’m not sure how many red lights Van Halen can ignore before deciding to pull the plug on this reunion idea. It’s invariably going to suck, but the money is probably just too tempting, especially for Roth. Everyone is beyond way too old. I know people will flock to this no matter what because it’s […]

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Sony BMG is pulling its plans to release Prince’s new record, Planet Earth, after learning about his plans to give away 2 million copies with ‘The Mail on Sunday’ in the UK. Record stores no likey when artists pull this type of bullshit. Prince may not care about brick and mortar stores anymore, but this […]

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Riding high off the success of his inarguably great new record, The Magic Position, Patrick Wolf has posed for the fall 2007 Burberry campaign shot by Mario Testino. As interesting as it is to see him not dressed as a rainbow-flavored unicorn, Mr. Wolf is still shilling for the man, which is somewhat disappointing.

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I can understand hating a band. I hate plenty (hello Wilco, hello Flaming Lips). So, NME writer Mark Beaumont slags off Interpol with some pretty harsh words in a recent piece. Slagging off Interpol in and of itself is not a big deal. So Beaumont hates Interpol…who cares? But here’s the kicker: He loves Editors. […]

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