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Prince “Adam Ant!” Charming Returns!
The often-great UK music website The Quietus has managed to score an amazing exclusive interview with our lost hero, Adam Ant. Most importantly, he’s working on a new album (his first for 15 years), the wonderfully-titled Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter. Even more importantly than that, in the interview [...]
Guru, 1966-2010
Groundbreaking MC Guru has died of cancer at age 43. Best remembered for his duo Gang Starr with DJ Premier, and his pioneering album Jazzmatazz, which, along with A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory and Digable Planets’ Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), started off the whole 90s jazz-rap craze. Sad [...]
Supergrass: 1993-2010
It turns out that Supergrass have broken up, citing the old “17-year itch.” While a lot of people—especially in this country—have probably not thought about the band in the past 10 years or so, they were one of the great UK rock bands of the 90s, back when they were just teenagers who made it [...]
Erykah Badu gets Naked, Fined
So Erykah Badu‘s Matt and Kim-inspired, naked stripping video for “Window Seat”? Turns out it has serious, serious consequences: She’s been charged with disorderly conduct and may face a fine of up to $500. But (surprise!) it turns out that everyone is being pretty cynical about this, clearly disastrous, situation. Can’t a girl get naked [...]
Watch: Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union”
Let’s get this out of the way first: The Monitor, the second album from Jersey boys Titus Andronicus, is one of the best albums of the year. Yes, it’s March, but it’s hard to believe that there’s going to be enough great records to knock it from the list. If you haven’t heard it, it’s [...]
The Libertines to Reform!
While you were worrying about Miley Cyrus quitting music forever and busy registering an appropriate amount of shock at Ricky Martin’s coming out party, there was breaking news “across the pond,” a phrase which doesn’t refer to a pond at all. That’s right, it’s the news you’ve been waiting for since 2004: The Libertines are [...]
All Hail LiLiPUT!
This week, Kill Rock Stars has done the world a service with the release of a cd/dvd package of live recordings, a documentary, and TV clips of late 70s-early 80s all-female Swiss group LiLiPUT. One of the great legends of post-punk, LiLiPUT (originally Kleenex, but that was copyrighted, of course) was called the “Swiss Slits,” [...]
Do Lesbians Look Like Bieber, or Vice Versa?
Not to become the Justin Bieber News Channel, but it’s a question that’s as old as time itself, or yesterday morning. Thankfully, the new Tumblr Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber may finally provide an answer to this pressing issue. (Note: the answer may have something to do with J-Bieber still being a child, but [...]
Justin Bieber’s Manager Arrested, for Twitter
Bieber-mania continues! This time, it’s about a minor tweenage revolution at a shopping mall that sent five people to the hospital. And now, Justin Bieber’s manager has surrendered to the police. Scott “Scooter” Braun, pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment, criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child. His arrest stemmed from [...]
J-Bieber on the Mic
Not being a tweenage girl, much of the Justin Bieber phenomenon has passed me by—I would be of the sort of people who said, “That kid? He’s opening the new ‘We are the World’?” Having said that, he can be ignored no longer. Clearly multi-talented, he went to Tim Westwood’s hip-hop show on BBC’s Radio [...]
Watch: Laura Marling – “Rambling Man”
Now that the Young British Folkies (hey, at least I didn’t say nu-folkies, give me some credit) are beginning to come out with their second records, there’s going to be a chance to see where the talent truly is. The imminent release of Laura Marling‘s I Speak Because I Can (out yesterday in the UK; [...]
Michael Jackson’s Doctor halts CPR, Searches for Cream
Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson’s doctor, who is currently facing involuntary manslaughter charges, may be worse than we thought: [He] halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer’s [...]
New York Times Discovers Chillwave, Fights Back
Jon Pareles, who tirelessly haunts multi-day industry showcases, has come back from SXSW to tell us that the new crop of lo-fi kids who’ve stumbled into electronic music have no clothes: It’s annoyingly noncommittal music, backing droopy vocals with impersonal sounds–a hedged, hipster imitation of the pop they’re not brash enough to make. Well, he’s [...]
Alex Chilton has Died
In sad, sad news, Alex Chilton has died of a heart attack at 59. He was the singer of the Box Tops, and, as most of you know, the singer and songwriter of Big Star. Big Star was scheduled to play South by Southwest on Saturday. For those of us who are fans, it’s hard [...]
Secret Sex Pistols Script Revealed