For a band that lost any semblance of credibility years, albums, and haircuts ago, Metallica must be a glutton for punishment by continuing to trot out new material. In a deftly worded statement, drummer Lars Ulrich claims, “these new songs echo some of our stuff from the ’80s – long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a […]

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There’s no real justification for fucking fans over the way record labels do some times. Reissuing a record that just came out in July is embarrassingly crass. Alas, Capitol’s scruples have never been held in high esteem on this front. Regardless, Radiohead’s former American home will re-release Interpol’s Our Love to Admire packaged with a DVD, featuring […]

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As though Revenge weren’t embarrassing enough, Joy Division and New Order bass legend Peter Hook went on to create Monaco during New Order’s lengthiest hiatus in the late 1990’s. The band was a rubbish New Order impression at best, cashing in on the aforementioned hiatus with singles that closely mimicked New Order’s hybrid mix of organic and electronic […]

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While the following words should’ve been an intertitle in that Van Hagar video where Eddie shows us he can wank off just as hard on the ivories, unfortunately they’re not: Riiight now, somewhere in the Stuyvesant Heights section of Brooklyn, a pandrogyne noise pioneer is cursing God and weeping uncontrollably – unsure if s/he can […]

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Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty’s Babyshambles have collaborated on a new song. Just being in the same room with these two people at the same time would in all likelihood cause any innocent bystander to imbibe heaps of illegal substances, while indirectly catching a contact high of considerable measure. By some miracle, Winehouse, Doherty, and his bandmates were […]

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 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is set to embark on yet another round of touring for its under-achieving, fifth long-player, So Divided, which has been on shelves the better part of a year. The band is hitting colleges with Adult Swim’s fictional metal band, Dethklok from Metalocalypse fame, whose debut record The Dethalbum […]

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Bloomington, Indiana’s Murder By Death may be slow to get new records out, but the band plays no shortage of shows. The non-stop touring has to take its toll at some point. I can’t imagine being able to write new material in such a draining, repetitive environment, but the band just released a statement on […]

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