Victory loses out to "anti-America" Apple
Victory Records boss Tony Brummel has vented his spleen in Apple's direction, after the company's iTunes Music Store passed on selling the popular label's material...»
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xbxrx - Sixth In Sixes
Clearly not ones to over-egg their puddings in many an area, xbxrx rifle through 18 songs in only a few more minutes, ending Sixth In Sixes’s proceedings with the kind of fuzz-stricken squall that one would usually find between FM radio station frequencies...»
Les Savy Fav, Weird War, Thunderbirds Are Now! at Highbury Garage, Islington, Wed 30 Nov
Tim Harrington runs a sweaty palm from his protruding belly up to his erect nipple. He teases it a little, licks his lips and points the microphone at the audience like a rifle, popping a number of caps off into our faces. Pow, pow, pow: but we couldn’t be happier...»
Strokes dates, 'case you missed them
Oooooh, they're back! And they're still not pretty! Well, be they ugly or otherwise in your blinkered eyes, one fact can not be ignored: The Strokes are touring, lock up your daughters. (You know mothers, the ones that stabbed the eyes out of all the pictures of Drew Barrymore in your celebrity magazines...) »
Births, deaf-ears and marriages: pop gossip
Want some random music-world gossip to pass a minute or two? Be our guest. Just a shame you can't read this on the bog as you would the Bizarre section...»
Soundgarden man unhappy over missing monies
Chris Cornell, former Soundgarden singer and now the frontman of Audioslave, is suing his ex-wife/former manager over monies dating back to his Soundgarden days...»
What about the Children? New Domino act tours
Brand-spanking new Domino signees The Beautiful New Born Children are to promote their debut album for the label, Hey People!, with a January tour...»
Blink 182 - Not Now / Dammit
For a good few million people, this was growing up...»
The Locust at London Camden Underworld, Mon 28 Nov
This is a certainty of a show, a complete no-brainer. It’s a purely does-what-it-says-on-the-ticket experience, and that’s both sad and absolutely unsatisfying...»
Let Our Enemies Beware - Dhu Rakina
Not one comparison really sticks, and that's the beauty of this release: it's both immediate in emotive effect and alien in its construction. It is original in a fashion that the alleged mavericks in the music press can only dream about. Actually, I’m under great restraint not to proclaim that Let Our Enemies Beware are the best domestic rock act I’ve heard all year...»
Still trucking: econoline on the road
Remember econoline? London-based purveyors of all things distorted and rocking, compared to Pavement and the like. Pretty dang decent, all told. You'd be forgiven for figuring they were no more, what with the radio silence and the lack of a website. But you'd be wrong...»
Two Gallants - Las Cruces Jail
Two Gallants' debut release for Saddle Creek is the sound of bipolar brothers in arms - San Francisco-based Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel - wrestling demons from the bellies of the angels upon their shoulders...»
Oasis - Let There Be Love
If this marks the end of this year’s Don't Believe The Truth campaign, a certain Cardiff stadium show aside, then the Oasis brothers can retire to winter holiday recuperation with no little cheer...»
Manchester station fined over racist remarks
Manchester-based radio station Key 103 has received the highest-ever fine from regulator OfCom following on-air racist remarks about murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley...»
Five bad days on the bounce: Powter tours
Man with bobbing head wrapped in a hat Daniel Powter is to embark upon his first UK tour after shifting 220,000 copies of his debut album in Britain alone. What's wrong with you people?»
Calla - It Dawned On Me
'It Dawned On Me' is everything the previously initiated have come to expect from this trio: guitars emanate forth from the darkest depths of NYC's abandoned subways, while singer Aurelio Valle croaks woefully like a man knowingly nearing his last days...»
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Oh, you know: it’s the one that builds and rises, shimmers and ripples, collapses to the ground and shatters into a thousand stars...»
Black Mountain, Dead Meadow, Wolf Parade at London King's Cross Scala, Wed 23 Nov
Low-end rhythms writhe, weave and snake about drumbeats that, while hardly perfunctory, never really stretch the imagination, whilst Simon’s guitar is both caressed and sent careening into supersonic excess. The whole experience is admirable enough on a superficial level, but open your ears a little wider and you see the music upon the inside of your eyelids...»
Korn sign stuff; vomit on the Tube unrelated
In-town nu-metal titans Korn will follow up their Friday night Forum show with a signing session in the nation's capital...»
Radio 1 snubs Peel tribute single
The Nation's Favourite has turned its so-often-misfiring nose up, and perhaps rightly so, at the tribute single to the late John Peel...»
Futureheads record a year's worth of ideas
The Futureheads have holed up in a Scarborough studio to work on the follow up to their massive-selling, self-titled debut...»
Glitter not guilty, says lawyer
Lawyer in 'my client didn't do it' shocker: Le Thanh Kinh says the Gary Glitter is innocent and that the allegations before him are "just hearsay"...»
Walsh crawls back to Cowell et al
X-Factor judge Louis Walsh has crawled back, tail between legs, to the show just 24 hours after walking out on co-stars Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell (pictured because we fancy him and Louis Walsh looks like a troll)...»
Brit metal bunkers go about their business: Johnny Truant tour
Brighton-based metal types Johnny Truant head out on a headline UK tour this week in support of their recently released, and rather chuffing good, second album In The Library Of Horrific Events.»
Holly Throsby - On Night
Australian chanteuse Holly Throsby has been wooing audiences in her native country for some years without the Northern Hemisphere so much as batting a long-lashed eyelid her way. Things are about to change, though...»
OK Go, already! New record, new tour
Fans of pop-rockin' riffs rejoice! OK Go, known for their deep lyrics and inspired compositions*, are returning to the UK in 2006 with a new album under their skinny arms and a single to plug...»
The Vines ready new record
Remember them, The Vines? There was that weird, tantrum-throwing one, Craig, and, um... four others. Anyway, they've a new record brewing...»
Cinema murder not directly linked to 50 Cent movie
A fatal shooting at a US cinema earlier this month was not directly linked to said establishment's screening of the controversy-courting 50 Cent flick, Get Rich Or Die Tryin'...»
Isle of Wight Festival headliners announced
It's The Prodigy...»
Jairus - Jairus EP
Where Jairus call home matters not, as these five young braves clearly have all sights set upon worldwide domination of the critic’s so-often poison pen and the consumers’ hearts and head-banging rights. This EP both ups the ante from their past album and leaves it sprawling on the canvas, expectations rope-a-dope’d into submission... »