Rolling Stone is reporting some weirdness with the url albumsix.com, which apparently redirects over to weezer.com. Predictably, Weezer’s publicist denies any involvement in the curious interweb shenanigans. Rivers Cuomo left the future of the band deliberately vague after the tour supporting its fifth album, Make Believe, so that he could finish his degree at Harvard […]

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Trend Reznor is pissed off at Universal Music Group for pricing Nine Inch Nails’ current Year Zero well above standard retail: “As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more.” Then, in the ultimate kiss-off, he […]

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Mouthy pop-singer Lily Allen has been pushing the limits of her charm lately. First canceling her tour out of sheer laziness, and now caving in to pressure to be extremely thin. Allen posted an embarrassing blog (amusingly titled ‘fat, ugly and shittier than Winehouse’) on her Myspace page about how she had “fallen victim to […]

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In her continuing quest for bridging the gap between Detroit white trash and English nobility, Madonna has recorded a “special” song to benefit the Live Earth Concert in another public act of heroic altruism. “Hey You” (not a Pink Floyd cover, thankfully) will be available only for download, so it will not be sent to […]

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Hilarious piece raking Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, over the coals for the firing of their head chef for becoming pregnant. “To an employment tribunal in Southampton, if you can imagine anything so vulgar, where Trudie Styler and her husband Sting – possibly the least self-regarding people on the planet they have done so […]

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No surprise here. Blabbermouth is reporting that Dave Navarro’s post-Jane’s Addiction travesty is “parting ways” with Capitol. Well, that’s how Navarro puts it in an official statement. “Parting ways” is putting it lightly. The Panic Channel’s debut sold a whopping 8,000 copies in its first week to land at number 108 on the Billboard Top […]

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All four members of Pink Floyd were present at the Barbican Centre in London last night to pay tribute to the man who named the band, Syd Barrett. Barrett’s relentless hallucinogenic drug abuse forced his dismissal as Pink Floyd were on the brink of success after only one record, The Piper at the Gates of […]

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