[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/F0G4uRVJpJ8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Someone finally posted Costello’s dirty deed on Youtube, so you can judge for yourself whether it’s a complete and shitty sellout or not. It makes me full-body cringe just to watch it. Elvis can love Beethoven just as much without using his own name to sell glorified Toyotas. His […]

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Joe Jackson has dabbled in every whim of his fancy from classical to new age to jazz to salsa, but it’s the rock on his legendary Look Sharp! record for which he will be remembered best. Why it takes these people so damn long to figure this stuff out astounds me. I know the self-important, […]

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Agreed. It should have won worst cover of the month, too. As you can see from the picture to the left, it is none too exciting. I’ve always hated Wilco. It bores me into oblivion. I could never bring myself to sit through an entire album without nodding off and drooling. I fully realize Vice […]

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With a new, all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up, due out June 26, the Beastie Boys are returning a little more low-key than usual. King Adrock has an amusing back and forth with The Stranger’s Jonathan Zwickel. Adrock on selling out: “I don’t think that people buying records or whatever really give a shit if you make […]

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Q Magazine has compiled its list of the top 10 most underwhelming follow-ups to smash debuts. It errs on the side of being overly English, but at least half of them are spot-on. The Stone Roses’ Second Coming justifiably tops the list (uhh, naming your album ‘second coming’ was begging for failure), followed closely by […]

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INXS is planning to record another album with its gimmicky contest winning lead singer from that embarrassing stint on CBS’ Rock Star: INXS. Since the requisite ‘Michael Hutchence is rolling over in his grave’ sentiments have long passed, it’s sort of becoming troublesome that the band still finds a need to continue beyond the strapped-for-cash […]

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Variety is reporting that ex-Hobbit Elijah Wood is set to portray Iggy Pop in an upcoming biopic, ‘The Passenger.’ This is certain to go down in flames. Elijah Wood? Couldn’t they have gotten someone that wasn’t in permanent pre-pubescent purgatory? How is anyone supposed to believe this clammy twat is Iggy fucking Pop? Pop may […]

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