Even though he’s busy in the studio helping Duran Duran clear the memory banks of its ill-fated Timbaland-produced album, Red Carpet Massacre, Mark Ronson has been summoned by Island Records executives to save Amy Winehouse from death by reggae. Evidently, upon hearing Ms. Winehouse’s demos for her follow-up to the monstrously successful Back to Black, […]

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Celebrity fighting has infiltrated the micro-blogosphere. Gasp! A Twitter war broke out yesterday between fat, talentless gossip hag Perez Hilton and mouthy British pop singer Lily Allen, who’s newest record hit stores last week. I suppose my bias is transparent. Poor miss Allen was reduced to trading barbs with Hilton, having had her goat gotten […]

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Of course, after his multiple Grammy wins with Alison Krauss, Robert Plant was asked about that badly beaten horse, the Led Zeppelin reunion rumors. His response was classic: "How old are you, man?" Plant responded. "Because you look older than me. You try to do ‘Communication Breakdown’ in these pants." I take that as a […]

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As we noted earlier this week, Pavement might reunite. I’m kind of meh on the news. Pavement is not exactly at the top of my drop-everything-and-run list for reunion pipe-dreams. I was a ho-hum Pavement fan in college, saw them live a few times, and enjoyed a select few of its records. I understand that […]

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Ok, so I realize that TMZ is pretty much a symbol of our declining civilization, but I subscribe to the feed as a guilty pleasure. Sometimes, there’s something (sort of)worth a look, like this Debbie Harry year-by-year comparison from the past three years: Back in the day, Debbie Harry was easily one of the hottest […]

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I can barely bring myself to comment on this it’s so disheartening. The Led Zeppelin rumor mill is one of the most prolific and fickle gossip topics to infect every news feeder imaginable. The back and forth over whether the band would ever play again was beaten into the ground in 2007 but eventually came […]

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For some reason Mogwai hates Blur. Remember the Blur Are Shite t-shirts that Mogwai peddled a few years back? (Still available, by the way). Well, now that talk of Blur activity has spread throughout the press, Mogwai is jumping on the chance to cash in for some free publicity kick up some dust in Blur’s […]

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