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Who's Next on the celebrity death pool? Forget your obvious candidates... Because John Entwistle, bassist with mod rockers / stadium dinosaurs The Who who did concept albums such as 'Tommy' and the million selling zeitgeisty (by 1970's standards) 'Quadrophenia' (Or Modrophenia might b»
IF you’ve any preconceptions about Hip-Hop or Rap, you better leave them at the door with your sets and your chains. If you’re convinced that most Hip–Hop is all about the cliches of “niggaz”, “ho’s”, “blunts”, gang warfare, and aggressive macho posturing bordering on misogyny – think again. Dispos»
Oasis have gone to war! Well, kind of... When a recent promotional recruitment video for the Edinburgh-based Highlanders Regiment, shot during a recent exercise by the 600-strong regiment in Kenya showing soldiers performing exercises in desert fatigues and carrying rifles, was shown in shopping centres»
Metal boy band Linkin Park seem to have taken a career cue from Limp Bizkit, and have re-animated their career with a re-mix album. Its released through Warner Bros. at the end of July,who are hoping to cash on the mega-zillion selling debut album 'Hybrid Theory'. Entitled 'Re-Animation', it»
Its that time of year again - When the Glastonbury line up is revealed. So here it is, in full:
Fri 28th June
Pyramid Stage
Coldplay, Faithless, Ash, Nelly Furtado, Doves, Dandy Warhols, Bush, Alabama 3, Shibusashirazu Orchestra
Other Stage:»
Despite having played a new track last year called "Bomb The Pentagon", Primal Scream don't seem to have been arrested yet. "Bomb The Pentagon" hasn't made the new album though: which is entitled 'EVIL HEAT'. Following the collapse of Creation Records, Primal Scream are now on »
Funk Rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers release a new album, 'By The Way' on July 8th via Warner Brothers.
Recorded with Rick Rubin (producer of Slayer and Run-DMC, amongst others), the album features the following tracks...
'By The Way'
'Universally Speaking'
'This Is The Place' <»
”Spiderman, Spiderman , Does whatever a spider can…..” You want a summer blockbuster? You got it. ”Spiderman”, delivers; and in true comic book style too. If you don't know what Spiderman's all about by now, you've probably been living under a rock, but in brief - when unloved high school geek Peter»
Satpal Ram, cause celebre of groups such as Primal Scream, Asian Dub Foundation, and Pitchshifter, has been Freed from prison after over 10 years inside at the hands of a flawed prosecution. As highlighted in Asian Dub Foundation’s 'Free Satpal Ram', Satpal Ram was sentenced to life im»
If you know of the legendary status of Bill Hicks – the infamous American-comedian-come-political-philosopher-via-redneck-hillbilly schtick – it’ll come as a surprise no one’s done a book about him before. Goddammit, even Frank Skinner’s even got a bloody book about him, and Frank Skinner’s not even bloody dead yet. »
In The Nursery might be best (un)known for their film work, not for their records: being comprised of two reclusive brothers based in Sheffield, they’ve recently taken to providing live soundtracks to old 30’s films like “The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari”, as well as having Hollywood tending to use their stuff»
From the opening “So low” to the closing “L.S.S.” this is simply, a must hear. Anyone who says that the UK music scene is jaded, and moans about how we can’t produce any decent heavy bands that are up there with America's…well, This’ll prove you wrong. High praise indeed I know, but deserved. “S»
Its easy to be cynical about the astounding regularity The Wonder Stuff seem to come out of retirement – roughly once every six months for a couple of gigs – and its easy to be cynical to be about yet another rehashed greatest hits set, played in a slightly different order each time. On the other hand, its»
The artwork for Indie megagods/stadium rockers Oasis new album 'Heathen Chemistry' was leaked online last night. Or was it? Multiple images depicting the album cover have appeared online... While Amazon.co.uk use an image of the band marked with "temporary cover - not actual sleeve", according to o»
Hot on the heels of the new Soulfly album 'III', Roadrunner Records will release a new, but old, live album from Soulfly mainman's Max calvalera’s previous band, the influential Brazilian metallers Sepultura; which they dropped last year. The album 'Live At Brixton' has been rumoured »
Industrial thrashers metallers Fear Factory having split earlier in the year release their last - and first - album shortly; While that sounds odd for a band who released 6 albums in their career, their next - and presumably - last will be an albums worth of unreleased material from 1991, entitled '»
Metal behemoths and stadium dinosaurs Metallica made a surprise return to the live scene a couple of days ago...and seemingly debuted their new bass player to boot! Playing under the Name SPUN the band played a short 9 song set at the Club Kimo in San Francisco - and despite claims that the ba»
With the arrival of Football World cup, its time to cast our eye over what exactly it all means. Especially after the previous article in this section!. Despite the millions of the flags waved and however pints of beer are drunk, it ultimately means Nothing .Do you really think that in the grand scheme of »
The Sex Pistols are a band who have been treated by record companies with contempt and thoughtlessness, with over 200 albums out there. Nonetheless the debut “Nevermind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols” made the kind of impact on the then scene which Its impossible to understate, and difficult to unde»
What happens when you get the movies Predator, The Thing, Aliens and Evil Dead put them in a Blender, and see what comes out of the other end? Dog Soldiers. That’s what you get. And it’s as good as any of them. The premise is simple – a team of British soldiers is dropped into a remote area of Scotland on a train»
When I first heard of this movie, I thought someone was spoofing me – but no, they weren’t. Nope, its the spoof of the recent glut of teen movies spoofs like Scream , Scary Movie, Legally Blonde, et al. Can you spoof a genre of spoof movies? Looks like. At least it’s astutely observed down to the last cli»
Glen Danzig has a lot to answer for. Being almost singlehandly responsible for both Samhain and the legendary punk-goth-schlockers the Misfits, - who could best de described as the Ramones dressed like a death metal band with rockabilly quiffs and an unhealthy interest in horror movies, but»
In a world that’s seemingly swamped with underachieving, underambitious Ska-Punk bands, its nice to see that one at least knows it place. 53 seconds into Track 10 (“The City with two faces”) 0 of this CD, there’s a quiet soothing voice; “Now, don’t get me wrong; you’re probably thinking we’re just some »
Taking the ethic of “Cash from Chaos”, the Sex Pistols (or more accurately, their manager Malcolm McClaren) exploited media manipulation and hype like never before, by creating something out of nothing. Which is exactly what "Jubilee" is, because it is, quite literally - "Flogging A Dead Hor»
Arena Indie stalwarts James release a new album 'Getting Away With It - Live' on 10th June through new label Sanctuary Records. Best known for baggy classic tracks like 'Sit Down' It is the last release featuring singer and figurehead Tim Booth. Released as a double CD and DVD / VHS, i»
The cold light of history hasn’t been too kind to techno-pop-rock crossover act Jesus Jones, especially if the mainstream music press (always too busy chasing the next big thing to remember anything prior to their last great white hype) are to be believed. But tonight sees Jesus Jones promoting their late»
The recent attempts by multinationals to stop CD-copying have been spectacularly thwarted.. thanks to the use of Black marker pen! In seeming proof that the high-tech solutions aren't always the best, newsgroups have been buzzing with the way of defeating the copyright tyrants. Developed by Sony, th»
Camden britpoppers Gene, after a brief and mostly unfulfilling relationship with mega-corporation Polydor, have signed another record deal. Looking to be back in action again soon, they've signed with new music company iMusic, run by Matt Geiger (ex of internet company ARTISTdirect): who's not conc»
When was the last time you saw or heard something truly, defintively original in the music media recently? So, I've put myself out on a limb there, but think about it: What is truly new and original? Maybe I'm showing my cynicism here, but things don't seem quite as fresh to me»
Long standing original nu metal band Machine Head are back to playing metal musical chairs again with the departure of guitarist Ahrue Luster. With the departure of previous guitarist Logan Mader in 1997, (later to join Soulfly , and now in Medication), who played on the first t»
