Punk goes bootleg crazy: 'mash-up' record due...
An American production team is working on a punk-rock 'mash-up' record, cutting and pasting different parts of various punk-cum-post-hardcore tracks in a bootleg styleeee...»
Articles
Mike_Diver has written the following articles:
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Success for today, relatively speaking, is assured. What tomorrow brings though, nobody knows.»
Radio 4 - Transmission / Nation
Two augmented slices from 2004's 'Stealing Of A Nation' long player comprise the lion's share of this new single-cum-EP from NYC's Radio 4.»
The Dopamine Theory - Three-track Demo
...they're not playing with post-hardcore tricks, or ripping off rap-metal artists with budgets bigger than brains. All they're doing is rocking, well, and in time they'll hit paydirt.»
Corrigan - Can Out Front / Medicine Stick
Y’see, this is pop, kids, but not as you know it. This isn’t music to sell cars, or to soundtrack Little Mo’s latest emotional breakdown. No, kids: this is menace, captured and encased in a slab of your finest red wax.»
London Calling... at Watford, Rugby, Birmingham New Street...
No train in vain here, punks...»
Neverthemore - Neverthemore
It’s one thing to know your rulebook, but quite another to know how to use it to your advantage.»
Limp Bizkit: new album recorded in Prague
Limp Bizkit are working on new material...»
Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
'More Adventurous' is an album for the doldrums: slow of progression and devoid of direction.»
The worst of the worst: The Naomis run down
Named after the model Naomi Campbell's shocking pop 'career', the Naomis are given to the very worst of the worst, and 'winners' were announced yesterday.»
Bunton bombs in the US
Bunton's latest album shifts less than 6,000 copies in the US...»
Kelly Osbourne: "My liver was rotting..."
Kelly Osbourne talks about drugs and booze and fags. She is über rock.»
Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Album of the year? Possibly... there’s something so primal, so raw about DFA1979 that the senses can’t help but be stimulated. You experience a pure fight or flee response – you can either turn away from this chaotic fuzz ‘n’ brawl, or face it head on, letting it overpower you. Let it... it's bliss...»
Too busy to watch telly? Sunday's top videos revealed...
Channel 4's top 100 pop videos contains few surprises...»
The Mars Volta release download-only single
The Mars Volta open 'Frances The Mute' with 'The Widow'...»
Pop nonsense: 'Brookie babe' KOs pop career and Cowell complains... again
Trivial pop news to brighten a bleak Friday...»
Original pranksta - Fiddy gets animated
50 Cent does a Simpsons turn...»
The Libertines: not over
The Libertines aren't all said and done...»
DiS + Silver Rocket x Noisestar = CUT & PASTE
Stick this through your mixer and scratch it: Drowned in Sound + Silver Rocket x Noisestar = CUT & PASTE.»
The Ed Fitz - all over?
Like the headline says. D'uh...»
Singer stabs his eye out after failing to jump to his death
R&B singer Houston, more pop-pop-popular over there in the US of A than here in Blighty, has gouged an eye out after failing to top himself at a London hotel.»
Sizzla in the slammer... for swearing
You think poor ol' Pete's got it hard? Spare a thought for Sizzla...»
Kids Near Water, The Coalfield, America Is Waiting - Split
Here we have three bands, each playing three songs, from three different countries. Does it work? Um...»
The Explosion, um, EXPLODE, all over 2005...
Punk rock tips for '05 The Explosion release their first UK single on 14th March. And tour. A lot.»
Dälek - Absence
'Absence' sounds like the piped musak of Hell itself...»
Red-top rumour no. 123,327: Kylie to play Glasto
Oh come on, it'd be a giggle...»
Coachella Festival: full line-up includes Cocteau reunion...
Full festival line-up and a few surprises!»
TEAM - Resonate South
Not spent any quality time with TEAM yet? Consider this your introduction to one of the country’s finest rock acts.»
The Fiery Furnaces - EP
The coolest of the cool will already own the highlights here – the impossibly catchy, for better or worse, ‘Tropical Iceland’ for one – but much pleasure is to be had from simply listening to one-time singles back to back.»
The Duke Spirit - Lion Rip
A buzz band of the moment fall flat on their arses by ploughing the same furrow one too many times. Who'd have thought...?»