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MGMT - Time To Pretend
2008-03-03 22:49:00 Yes, MGMT are one of those bands on the big hype list for 2008. So my bullshit radar is off the map even before I’ve started. Things don’t start well when the song begins with some weird-ass sound effects. Then we have possibly the lowest-budget music video in decades. I can’t even begin to describe ... More About: Time , Indie Music
Jimmy Eat World - Always Be
2008-03-03 22:00:00 Come on, let be honest - who thought Jimmy Eat World probably broke up ages ago? Well, apparently they didn’t. And this new single Always Be is proof. Although the song and its supremely polished production simply scream “radio-friendly hit single”, I can’t bring myself to hate this. It’s the kind of track I absolutely ... More About: Rock Music , Thumbs Up , Jimmy Eat World
Who?d Win A Fight Between Avril Lavigne and Hayley Williams From Paramore?
2008-03-03 13:28:00 Dammit. Two of the most aggressive females in rawk, mark my words. These two ladies will steal your boyfriend, have their wicked way with him, then eat him and throw away the bones. But how would they fare against each other? That’s the million dollar question. Indeed, let’s face these two punk vixens off against ... More About: Avril Lavigne , Fight , Polls , Williams , Avril
Carly Simon Signs With Starbucks? Record Label
2008-03-03 13:04:00 Starbucks are mopping up a huge number of geriatric songwriters for their Hear Music label. Carly Simon is the latest in a line of formerly great artists to have signed up with the Starbucks record label in order to get their music force fed to the mocha swigging masses. In addition to the much loved ... More About: News , Starbucks , Signs , Label , Record
Andy Abraham Is UK Eurovision Entrant
2008-03-02 22:53:00 We’re not entirely sure whether the Eurovision Song Contest constitutes music or light entertainment, but we’ll talk about this here anyway. We watched Andy sing his way through the snappily titled Eurovision: Your Decision. He’s the same soulful, confident performer he was back on X Factor 2005. More About: News , Abraham
UK Pop Charts - 2 March 2008
2008-03-02 21:55:00 No. I’m not doing it. You can’t make me. I am NOT regurgitating the charts from last week. I already told you I was sick of that. Let’s just chat among ourselves, eh? Duffy’s still at number one. I hate that song. It’s exactly the opposite of Winehouse’s Rehab. In Rehab, you’ve got Amy booming ... More About: Charts , March , Pop Music , The Charts , March 2008
Busted?s £10 Million Royalties Battle
2008-02-28 23:28:00 Don’t you just hate it when things go sour between former bandmates? Well, that’s what’s happening between ex-Busted boys James Bourne and Matt Willis and their pre-Busted friends Ki McPhail and Owen Doyle. The case hinges on the claim that the band’s manager Richard Rashman ousted McPhail and Doyle from the band and forced them to ... More About: News , Battle , Million , Royalties
Recommended: Looker
2008-02-28 22:07:00 Looker are a mostly female pop-punk group from New York City. They tell us that they’re heading for the UK in April of this year. I sort of hesitate to use the word ’spunky’, but their poppy vocals and raw guitar parts inspire that kind of description. There’s something familiar about the Looker sound, like I’ve ...
New Madonna Album Named: ?Hard Candy?
2008-02-27 22:02:00 Apparently the public still cares about Madonna releasing a new album. Strange. After the lycra gusset-stretching of the last album and its videos, you’d think the world would want to wait a couple of years longer. But there you go. So, [sound of fanfare] the new Madonna album will be called Hard Candy . In fairness, the ... More About: News , Albums
Miaow! Kerry Katona on Atomic Kitten?s Reunion
2008-02-26 23:56:00 Sour-faced pop troll Kerry Katona has laid the boot into her ailing former bandmembers in Atomic Kitten . She’s been quoted as saying that “I made that frigging band, but they never bothered to invite me back.” No offense to the deluded, unstable airhead, but I don’t remember her being the eye candy in the Kitten. All ... More About: News , Stupidity
Sasquatch! 2008 Festival Line-up Announced. Yay!
2008-02-26 23:27:00 Wanna see an endless list of acts on the line-up for this year’s Sasquatch ! festival? We thought you might. The festival is being held this year at the Gorge Ampitheatre in Quincy, Washington between 24th and 26th May. Interesting to see comedy-folk act Flight Of The Conchords on the bill - they’re coming out with an ... More About: Concerts , Festivals , Festival , Line
Dr Dre?s Off License. I Smell A Sell-Out.
2008-02-26 23:11:00 The next time you’re pouring a drink on the ground for your dead homies, you might be pouring Dr. Dre’s finest cognac. Of course, that depends on what hood you live in, and whether the inevitable copycat drinks from Jay-Z’s “Hovie-HoochTM” to P. Diddy’s “Biggie’s Special Brew (RIP)”. I read today on the Rumors In Music ... More About: News , Hip-hop , Smell , Sell , License
Blur?s Dave Rowntree Goes Politics
2008-02-26 23:02:00 Well, after all that hanging around waiting on Blur to reunite, it’s about time Dave got a proper job. But why exactly does he want to become a politician? Basically, Mr Rowntree (see, we can be respectful sometimes) is planning to stand for Labour in the Cities of London and Westminster. Now, he’s done this before ... More About: News , Politics
Maxim: Why Write Real Reviews When You Can Fake Them?
2008-02-26 16:46:00 So, there I am, slavishly listening to the latest singles, forming opinions and writing them down for the world to see. Lowly, stupid blogger that I am. The ‘big media’ way, the way they do reviews at at Maxim (and probably countless others who haven’t been caught), is to make up the review based on ... More About: News , Reviews , Journalism , Write
Recommended: HiFlyer
2008-02-25 23:10:00 Sometimes good things come out of running a telly blog. A couple of Fridays ago, I got the opportunity to go to Bristol and meet a bunch of participants in the BBC’s Upstaged competition. One of those folks was Elle Williams, the lead singer with Bristol-based indie band HiFlyer . Now, I’m normally discovering new music ... More About: Indie Music
The Ting Tings - Great DJ - Single Review
2008-02-25 22:31:00 The Ting Tings are yet another of those acts that the music industry would like us to buy into this year. Unfortunately, I’m becoming increasingly suspicious of that bloody Sound Of 2008 list. In the weeks since the BBC list was released, most of these acts have flooded the market. It’s all been very sudden and ... More About: Review , Great , Single , Pop Music , The Ting Tings
Sugababes - Denial
2008-02-25 21:13:00 OK, can we get the kiddie jokes about Denial being a river in Egypt out of the way right now? You’re all a bunch of big kids really… OK, so we’ve hit the third single from the Sugababes ’ Change album. It’s been confusing for the record buying public who aren’t sure now if the Sugababes ... More About: Pop Music
Paramore: Splitting Up, Then Not Splitting Up
2008-02-25 18:44:00 You know how hard it is being in the public eye? Well, try to imagine. You’re got the press constantly making up shit about you and taking your quotes out of context. What’s worse, in this age of Web 2.0 and bands being able to communicate directly with their fans, it seems you can still send ... More About: News , Rock Music , Paramore
REM To Play UK Dates To Promote Accelerate Album
2008-02-25 14:13:00 REM have announced that they will play four gigs in the UK later this year to promote their new album, Accelerate . The mini tour will take in the Old Trafford in Manchester on 24 August, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium the next day Southampton’s Rose Bowl on 27 August and will finish off at Twickenham Stadium, south-west ... More About: Concerts , Dates , Promote , Play , Album
Ready For The Flood? Not Quite A Jayhawks Reunion
2008-02-25 10:09:00 I’ve long been a fan of The Jayhawks, discovering their music through a recommendation, then discovering to my disappointment that they’d split up years before. So, my ears pricked up today when I heard that Gary Louris and Mark Olson, the brains behind The Jayhawks have come together to release a new album, Ready For ... More About: News , Country Music , Reunion , Flood
UK Pop Chart: 24 February 2008
2008-02-24 22:48:00 Welcome back for another run down of the UK’s top ten! In this edition, I’m going to moan about how hard it is to write the chart run-down when the tunes stay the same each week. Nickelback, Rihanna and Kelly Rowland have been hanging around the chart for weeks and weeks, and I have officially ... More About: Top Ten , Pop Music , Chart , The Charts , February 2008
Drunken Brits?
2008-02-21 15:02:00 I was a wee bit peeved to see so many drunken idiots both presenting and receiving awards at last night’s Brit Awards. I could barely understand a word Vic Reeves said, and Alan Carr’s gag about sticking a straw in Amy Winehouse’s beehive was tasteless and insulting to someone who’s obviously trying to get her ... More About: News , Brits
U2 Preparing For New Studio Album
2008-02-19 22:42:00 His Holiness, Pope Bono and the other assorted members of U2 are holed up in their studio in Dublin working on material for a new album. But don’t expect anything too amazing from them, they’re only trying to “break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece“ according to collaborator Daniel Lanois. And no classic U2 album ... More About: News , Albums , Studio , Album , Brian Eno
UK Pop Charts - 17 February 2008
2008-02-19 22:19:00 Ouch. Of the two young ladies tipped for big things in 2008, Adele spent the last few weeks being denied her #1 by Basshunter. Then, just when their iron grip of that position slips, in nips Duffy and takes it effortlessly. That’s got to be annoying! Not as annoying as that Nickelback single is becoming. ... More About: Charts , Pop Music , The Charts , February 2008 , February
Nicole Scherzinger Returning To Pussycat Dolls
2008-02-19 21:46:00 According to Idolator, Nicole Scherzinger will be returning to her raunchy song and dance act after her solo career failed to set the charts alight. Nicole’s decision to go solo after the Pussycat Dolls first album was something which shocked me. The Dolls had barely broken as an act, though admittedly Nicole was the only ... More About: News , Pussycat Dolls , Hip-hop
New Aerosmith Album In The Works?
2008-02-19 00:45:00 I read an interesting piece over on ZME music speculating on a possible new Aerosmith album in the making. Apparently Joe Perry spoke on a New York radio show about his son’s band and the problems that have got in the way of a new Aerosmith record. More About: News , Albums , Works , Album
Green Day Release New Songs As Foxboro Hot Tubs
2008-02-18 23:49:00 Biggest music news of the day is the claim that Green Day have released a series of songs under the alias Foxboro Hot Tubs. Well, not officially, but there are a ton of sites speculating that the vocalist on the Foxboro Hot Tubs songs is Green Day ’s Billie Joe Armstrong. Believe it or not, this ... More About: News , Songs , Rock Music
The Zutons Resurrect The Forest Tour
2008-02-18 22:37:00 In my mind, 90’s band EMF are the band I associate most with performing in forests. However, in the run up to the release of their still untitled third album, The Zutons are planning to do a tour of forests in the UK. Sounds class, doesn’t it? It’ll be the band’s first UK tour since ... More About: News , Concerts , Tour , Forest
Biffy Clyro - Who?s Got A Match? - Single Review
2008-02-18 22:19:00 Finally exhausting the supplies of potential singles from their Puzzle album, Biffy Clyro released Who’s Got A Match ? on 4 February. And after a string of introspective acoustic ballads, it’s nice to hear the boys knocking up the tempo a little bit and releasing a heavier track. Who’s Got A Match? revolves around a fairly heavy ... More About: Review , Rock Music , Single
Goldfrapp - A&E - Single Review
More articles from this author:2008-02-17 23:59:00 Sometimes an act comes along with a song and it forces you to face the fact that they might actually be pretty good after all. A&E has exactly that effect for me when it comes to Goldfrapp . Up until this point I’d written the band off as quirky oddities that didn’t warrant much attention. However, A&E ... More About: Review , Single , Pop Music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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