Google to launch online music service
Thinks have just heated up in the online music world… or are about to. Google is teaming up with iLike and Lala (one of my favorite streaming sites) to bring band pages with pretty much everything you ever need on a band–pics, discography, lyrics, videos, song previews and yes, a way for you to purchase [...]
Poison The Well set to record with J Robbins!
Miami’s POISON THE WELL are excited and honored to announce they will be stepping into the studio w/ famed producer, J Robbins, beginning this November. Spending an entire month w/ Robbins (whose steady hands have helped create amazing albums from Against Me!, Clutch, Paint it Black, Modern Life is War, Murder By Death and more), [...]
THIS IS GOING TO BE HUGE
People, people! This might be the biggest announcement of 2008. There has been a band secretly in the making for the past couple of years, a group that calls themselves a “power-violence grind-core band.” They are known as United Nations–but that isn’t the big story here. Though [...]
Wilco prepping new album for Spring release
Billboard is reporting that Jeff Tweedy is getting material together for album number 7 for Wilco.
[Billboard]Tweedy told WAMC he’s going through a phase where he “kinda hate[s]” all of Wilco’s six prior albums, because “none of them are a statement that I would be comfortable making right now at this point in my life. They [...]
Save Pandora and others
Pandora, a terrific internet podcasting site is rumoured to be considering pulling the plug.
Pandora, one of the fine companies that have agreed to sponsor our IOTY contest starting next month, is just one of those sites that is being tactlessly forced out of the industry due to shady downloading rights and all that crap. First [...]
Tricky and Tom Waits collaboration? Sounds possible
It seems it’s been a while since Tricky has brought down the walls with any new music. In fact you could argue that the Bristol-based trip hop icon hasn’t done anything worth mentioning since 1996’s Pre-Millennium Tension. Well, he does have a new album coming out this month called Knowle West Boy but even more [...]
EMI cut even more jobs, but are there more jobs?
My oh my EMI. Art thou doomed? It seems like all the cuts are coming from EMI and none of the other majors. What’s going on? Seems the typical major label turmoil continues. They state that it is restructuring but is that it? Or is it cutbacks in general? Comments?
Here is the official Press Release:
Johnny Rotten accused of Assault?!
Came across this story on punknews.org and then followed a link to a longer article at E! Online. Here’s that article…it’s pretty hilarious, true or not. Rotten looks like something out of a horror movie anymore…hard living?…
Is Johnny a Rotten excuse for a gentleman?
A former reality TV show producer has sued the Sex Pistols frontman [...]
New Velvet Revolver Singer?
From www.blabbermouth.net:
The Pulse of Radio reports: An unconfirmed item at Idolator.com suggests that VELVET REVOLVER may be in talks with an unnamed Australian singer to replace vocalist Scott Weiland, who was dismissed from the band two months ago. The anonymous source wrote, “I have some new information coming from fans/family close to the hard rock [...]
