So, there are rumors of a Feelies reunion floating around out there, but it won’t be the line up that wrote, recorded, and performed Crazy Rhythms. Still, with Glenn Mercer and Bill Million performing together for the first time in 17 years, it could be interesting. Crazy Rhythms is one of my favorite records of […]

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After its latest album, the Timbaland-produced Red Carpet Massacre, plummeted into obscurity the moment it was released in the US last November, Duran Duran has been the victim of yet another stretch of bad luck. The latest gaffe occurring at the opening show in New Zealand for its current world tour. Evidently, lead singer Simon […]

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Apparently, YouTube is going to screen Sigur Ros‘ Heima. WTF?!

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Via Tiny Mix Tapes comes word that Merge is now selling mp3/flac digital audio file. I don’t really understand this move. Why now? 8 years ago or even 3 years ago, maybe I would have been impressed. Hasn’t most of the Merge catalog been on eMusic for years? I guess they’ll be cutting out the […]

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After two years of recording (and a six-year gap), The Notwist has finally finished the follow-up to 2002’s masterpiece, Neon Golden. It is entitled The Devil, You + Me, and it is scheduled for a US release in June when a tour will also commence or as the band says, “we swap our spacship [sic] […]

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After the surreal tragedy at The Rolling Stones’ infamous 1969 concert at Altamont Speedway in Northern California, lead singer Mick Jagger vowed never again to use the Hells Angels as security detail- a colossal case of too little too late. However, the Hell’s Angels did not take kindly to Jagger’s banishment, having hatched a plot […]

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Boy George has officially denied kidnapping and chaining a male escort to a wall in his Shoreditch home last April. The Culture Club star’s run ins with the law over the years haven’t been quite as conspicuous as, say George Michael’s have, but they’re certainly more sinister. From heroin addiction to cocaine busts to kidnapping, […]

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