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Can't do much about it. Tastes like chicken.
Sun February 15, 2009
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Q&A with Lamb Of God, discussing their upcoming album: "we don't want to write singles, we want to write songs that make us want to drive fast, headbang and punch things" |
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Blogger calles U2 Science Fiction's best band. Must not have heard of Yes, Rush, Coheed and Cambria, Monster Magnet, Muse, Radiohead, Tool, Powerman 5000, Daft Punk, etc |
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Spandau Ballet to reform for tour and new album. The Style Council, Godley & Creme, Eddie Brickell, Kajagoogoo, Honeymoon Suite and Modern English soon expected to record brand new insipid and annoying ballads |
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It's been 25 years since one of the worst hatchet jobs in music history. But the 'Tap is still standing, and has big plans |
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Britney Spears is "like a wound-up spring waiting to go off", is "taking medication to get through each day", and "frequently breaks down in tears". Here comes the head-shaving |
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Sunday Heavy Metal Housecall shows us that bullet belts, white pants, and riffs are still cool. Megadeth - "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" |
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After penning songs about kitties, peaches and lumps, singer of The Presidents of the United States of America releases album for kids under the age of 4. Obvious tag asplodes |
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Lest we forget just how great Chet Atkins was, here is a recording of him playing Yankee Doodle and Dixie on the guitar... at the same time |
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Sat February 14, 2009
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Beck plays "Clap Hands" on TV, while his band sits at the kitchen table, holding their spoons |
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Prog band Yes cancel U.S. tour, realizing they are too old and unhealthy. Fans, subjected to the first tour without Jon Anderson, feel relieved and thankful |
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M.I.A. gives birth to baby boy, who immediately began speaking: "Galang, Galang, galang" |
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Marvin Gaye with six minutes of "Let's Get It On" in all its live, sweaty goodness - if you'd paid attention to your dad and listened to this kind of thing more often you wouldn't be sleeping alone tonight |
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I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota. Saturday Grungecall: "Outshined" from Soundgarden |
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The married farker's Valentine's Day anthem: "She's No Lady (She's My Wife)" |
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The Ramones + Lemmy - "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." live |
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Alice In Chains join Motley Crüe to headline Rock On The Range in Ohio this May with Korn and Avenged Sevenfold. Infected and jaundiced Nikki Sixx trifecta complete |
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Fri February 13, 2009
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Bjork to release deluxe edition "Voltaic" box set, comes with bonus DVD, a small cloud tied to a string, a pile of snow from the Himalayas, a whispered prayer dipped in vanilla and a pouch of baby elephant teeth painted purple |
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Nick Hornby doesn't just whine about music, he writes it, too. Ben Folds recording an entire album with the author this June |
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Motley Crue sign three album and four tour contract, ensuring at least another decade of fading tattoos, herpes breakout and creepy-looking faces covered in guyliner |
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Playboy unveils music issue with musicians such as Perry Farrell and Nikki Sixx designing shirts around the bunny logo. You'll buy this one "for the articles" |
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If you're going to win all those Grammys, the next logical step is to go back in the studio: Alison Krauss and Robert Plant start recording follow-up to "Raising Sand" |
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Japan's music moguls, charged with maintaining nation's production line of boy bands and pop idols, are exploitive, dishonest, and kind of creepy |
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Two of the victims in the Buffalo crash were members of Chuck Mangione's band, Meglomart's flag at half staff |
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Hey neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies: break out your hypercolor shirts and acid-washed jeans ... Simple Minds set to release a new cd |
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Michael Jackson's superbug infection may cause his nose to collapse. Good thing he has a drawer full of spares |
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This store goes to 11 |
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Peter Gabriel backs out of Oscar ceremony after producers take sledgehammer to his "Wall-E" song |
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Not News: Desperate radio station tries prank announcement that Jessica Simpson will be making a publicity appearance/performance downtown. Fark: Less than 50 people show up |
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Thu February 12, 2009
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Obvious: Your producer advises you not to collaborate with Amy Winehouse. Fark: You're Pete Doherty |
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Nude photo of Madonna sells for $37,500--presumably to someone without internet access |
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30 Seconds to Mars completing their third album and considering pulling a Radiohead and giving it away for free. This is really good news for your little sister |
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David Letterman's Top 5 Musical Guests: Monday: U2. Tuesday: U2. Wednesday: U2. Thursday: U2. Friday: U2 |
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Sonic Youth reveal upcoming album title and cover art. Singer Kim Gordon also unveils clothing line, because when one thinks of Sonic Youth, Urban Outfitters comes immediately to mind |
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If you had today as the day the first American Idol scandal would break, step up and collect your prize |
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Pearl Jam to wake the cranky carcass of Neil Young for a follow-up to their "Mirror Ball" collaboration from 1995, promise to make a "better record" this time |
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Limp Bizkit "disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music" decides to look past their differences, reform for a world tour so they can save hard rock music. Or could be that they're doing it all for the nookie |
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Celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday with songs about evolution. Dylan: 'The Times They Are A-Changin' , Bowie: 'Changes', Pearl Jam: 'Do The Evolution' and, why not? Napalm Death: 'De-Evolution Ad Nauseum' |
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Aretha Franklin puts her career "on hold for a while" so she can concentrate on pies. Lots and lots of pies |
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Funk power approached maximum density last Tuesday, as Sly Stone and George Clinton wowed fans by teaming up for an impromptu jam. Later on, Clinton took Sly aboard the mothership to argue about who had the flashiest outfit |
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Drug dealer who sold Sid Vicious his last shot of dope says he feels "no guilt" in upcoming documentary: "If he hadn't got it from me, he would probably have got it from someplace else" |
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A fairly cool song by Bob Welch, "Ebony Eyes - 1977", is quickly ruined when the video shows that anything over the neckline sucked in 1977 |
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This week's Michael Jackson illness: The Superbug, which is eating away his milky white skin. The Sun has the photos to prove it. Well, maybe |
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Molly Bee won't see Mommy kissing Santa Claus any more |
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Wed February 11, 2009
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The musical equivalent of dividing by zero is to happen in Utah, the vortex of suck most likely will split open and swallow us whole: Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer join forces for show |
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Valentine Day isn't looking good for Chris Brown; thousands of disgruntled Rihanna fans to stage protest, rip posters and destroy CDs in NY, if they can find someone who admittedly owns Chris Brown CDs |
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The Von Bondies are back with a tour and new album, now that their lead singer's face has finally healed up |
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Marvin Gaye sang "Anger can make you old ... Anger destroys your soul". That's all fine and good, but goes out the window the minute Black Flag, MC5 or Slayer starts playing really loud |
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Usher blames surgeon for almost killing his wife during liposuction operation, but clinic director says he's not taking the bad rap |
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Kenny Chesney tells Playboy magazine that he is definitely, without a doubt, 100% NOT gay, he's just the pink sheep of the family |
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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced to the news that Mandy Moore is engaged to Ryan Adams |
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Bruce Springsteen loses number one spot on the Billboard album chart, getting his ass kicked by some anonymous alternative band that had a song on "Grey's Anatomy" |
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For his farewell episode, Conan O' Brien gets the best rock band available that aren't old farts yet: The White Stripes |
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Jessica Simpson claims to know "what works if you're curvy," plans to create new line of muumuus |
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Serge Gainsbourg's "Melody Nelson" to get U.S. release. Question is, do Americans care about a dead, disgruntled chain-smoking French man who was the gutter equivalent of Frank Sinatra? |
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Rapper M.I.A. attracting questions about her support for terrorist groups. A 5 foot pregnant woman with Bono glasses who gets checks from MTV is threatening us with... a tiger logo? |
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The Buzzcocks perform their first two albums on free live broadcast tonight, proving that they're still orgasm addicts after all these years |
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Hey England, remember when you sent us the Beckhams? Well, here's Courtney Love back to you. You can keep her |
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke to write music for "Terminator: Salvation". Presumably by taking Danny Elfman's score and adding bleeds and noises to it |
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46 years ago today, the Beatles walked into Abbey Road Studios at 10 in the morning. 10 hours later they'd made £22.50 each, and recorded Please Please Me. Not the song, the album |
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Scarier than watching aging Rolling Stones up close would be the New York Dolls. So unsurprisingly their next reunion was for a charity |
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Tue February 10, 2009
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Toby Keith tries to put his foot in the ass of a fan |
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Black Lips covering Captain Beefheart? Yes. Disturbed covering Faith No More? Ok. How about Flaming Lips doing Madonna? uhm, ok. Adam Sandler doing Neil Young? WTF is this travesty? (with vid) |
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Good news: Kiss' Paul Stanley fathers another kid. Even better news: From his actual wife |
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Death Cab For Cutie call for Auto-Tune ban, claiming that it's killing the art of singing by rendering everything soulless. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and John Lydon: "Auto-what?" |
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Bob Marley's family to license the late Jamaican reggae legend's likeness, trademarks and themes on retail products ranging from apparel to video games. First up, the Wii bong |
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Motorhead, Dragonforce, GWAR, Napalm Death, Lacuna Coil and Testament on one stage? That must be upcoming Wacken Open Air Festival, where no woman is to be seen in a 200-mile radius |
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Coldplay give interview. About how they never give interviews |
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Buena Vista Social Club's legendary string bassist Orlando Cachaito Lopez dead at 76 |
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Green Day to release "21st century Breakdown" in May, which is said to be like "American Idiot," a rock opera spread across three acts: One for every chord they know |
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Columbia executive Rick Rubin wins producer of the year Grammy for records he's made for everybody except Columbia |
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Based on what they saw on "The Simpsons," Radiohead questions the importance of the Grammys |
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Paris Hilton to Paul McCartney: "I'd love to do a duet with you. I'm a singer, too and have had an album out." Paul: "How about no." |
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The Who voted favourite to perform at next year's Super Bowl, followed closely by Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses. Coldplay came last, right after Joaquin Phoenix, Ashlee Simpson and Vanilla Ice |
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Kanye West resents being called gay because of his wardrobe: "There's a lot of gay people who don't dress good at all. There's a lot of gay people that I dress way better than" |
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Slipknot, Prodigy and Motley Crue to headline Download 2009 festival. That's a lot of venereal diseases for one stage |
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Rihanna cooperating with police in assault investigation, ation, ation, ay ay ay ay ay ay |
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Mon February 09, 2009
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Good news, Hot Topic shoppers: Blink-182 reforms and possibly to go on tour with Green Day |
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What classic songs would sound like if created by cold, soulless machines. Wait, how is this any different than now? |
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That's "Daft Punk's *Grammy-Winning* 'Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger'" to you. Live |
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With all the mention of Anthrax and rap - Here's the holy grail. Anthrax/Public Enemy/Primus/Young Black Teenagers on Bring the Noise LIVE |
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Have you ever wondered if Motorhead had written Hanson's MMMBop for the ukulele? Yeah, me neither, but this guy did and filmed himself doing it and put it in the intartubes |
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Coldplay* |
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Diamanda Galás & John Paul Jones - Skótoseme (live 1994) |
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