Evan Dando recently told Billboard that his resurrected version of The Lemonheads is set to release a new album next spring. Recording will begin in January, but Dando is tight-lipped about the whole thing because he’s afraid of jinxing it. He’s not back on the crack again is he? Considering the ho-hum return of The [...]

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I guess it takes a fan revolt to force Prince into writing his best song in years. After threatening to sue his own fans for posting his likeness on their fan sites devoted to him, Prince has taken his tirade one step further: he’s written a diss song about the whole situation. When the fan [...]

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So, Thom Yorke shoots down Paul McCartney for a duet request. He is a Beatle, but I still don’t blame Yorke’s decision. What’s Paul done for you lately? Or in 20 years? The Starbucks record? Poor Paul had to comment on the rebuff publicly, explaining how Yorke had said “he couldn’t because he only [...]

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Tool’s Maynard James Keenan sat down with a real smart-like interviewer from Suicide Girls to talk Puscifer- his new band with former members of Primus and Nine Inch Nails. And Milla Jovovich is involved in some capacity. Here’s to hoping she doesn’t contribute much. V is for Vagina is out now on Pucifer Ent, which [...]

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“In 1967 I hired Frank Zappa to score a :30 second animated TV Comercial for Luden’s Cough Drops fot $2,000. We won a Clio for “THE BEST USE OF SOUND”. It was the beginning of a two year relationship that had me filming 14 hours of footage as I traveled with The Original Mothers Of [...]

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In case you missed Conrad Keely’s Interscope bashing screed on Trail of Dead’s official website just over a week ago, fear not, as the cached version shall live on, having made the rounds across everyone’s RSS feeder, anyway. The band’s manager, Asif Ahmed, has since fielded questions regarding Keely’s diatribe and the band’s split from Interscope, saying it [...]

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David Byrne goes to IKEA for the first time and makes a video game out of the experience.
“Why does everything have weird names? Every container, shelf, cabinet or appliance had some odd name, as if people from Planet Sweden anthropomorphized these objects, naming each one they encountered as best they could”

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I wonder if they’re taking requests… (via Dead Flowers)
I’ve always liked Dean Wareham’s cover of Ceremony.

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(downloadable .mp4 video 240×176 sans watermark available here. And here’s an mp3 from the video of the performance.)

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Seattle’s Sub Pop Records is taking digital distribution into its own hands with a new mp3 shop. Its current online catalog is running 200 albums deep. No individual track purchases are available yet, and the encoding is only 192kbps. But, Sub Pop is open to criticism and welcomes user feedback to help improve the store. Albums are [...]

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Radiohead released a testcast last night in anticipation of a forthcoming webcast. After some behind the scenes hijinks, which included some DJ-ing and weird graphical interludes, the band performed Bjork’s “Unravel” live in a studio. It’s Thom Yorke’s favorite song of all time. The proper webcast is scheduled for tonight between 9pm and 12am (GMT).

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Hideously awful cover of Nirvana’s ubiquitous hit proves that music does indeed cross all cultural barriers, even when it sounds like shit. (via Guardian)

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Clover, the little-known backing band that played on Elvis Costello’s debut, My Aim Is True, some thirty years ago is reuniting with Costello for the first time since they all left the studio when the album wrapped. The cause is for Costello’s long-time friend and fellow musician, Austin De Lone, whose son suffers from “Prader-Willi [...]

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Arctic Monkeys take a subtle shot at miming in videos with a live-in-the-studio version of “Teddy Picker” off Favourite Worst Nightmare. This video destroys the borderline un-ironic piss-take that was the “Brainstorm” video. Christ, that was a mess. Still, Alex Turner is hands-down one of the cleverest lyricists going. This record has remained in my [...]

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More less-than-reliable news has surfaced claiming that things might be brewing in the My Bloody Valentine camp. Billboard is sourcing the Daily Swarm with the scoop that Kevin Shields has indirectly confirmed that My Bloody Valentine will release new music by the end of this year. He appeared in an interview segment with The [...]

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News of Pete Doherty’s recent “recovery” from drug addiction was taken with exaggerated rolls of the eyes the world over. It was more than a little disingenuous to expect people to buy news that Britain’s most willfully notorious junkie was suddenly all cleaned up. Doherty has forced cynicism upon his press with blatant and comical setbacks [...]

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Prince is an asshole. I’ve never heard of a celebrity who made it so difficult to be a fan. He won’t even let his fans call themselves fans. They’re “fams.” Now he’s threatening to sue said “fams” for posting pictures their tattoos if they bear his royal likeness. What a cock. I realize Prince has always restricted access [...]

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Taking a cue from Radiohead’s “name your price” In Rainbows stunt, Paste Magazine is offering a similar deal for a one-year subscription (min: $1). Economists would tell you that paying anything more than you are required is foolish; but what do they know.

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I finally lost my Morrissey virginity last night in Greenville, SC after having missed him countless times over the years, and it was so well worth the wait. I was expecting a far less energetic performance for some reason (maybe since Ringleader of the Tormentors lacked the punch of You Are the Quarry). But his [...]

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“…the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. Although available information was limited, the graph is data rich in representing time since original recording, recording artist, release name/date and label. Various graphical techniques employed (eg. radiating dots) allowed for data [...]

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