The Cult Return With Intense New Album

January 30, 2012

Click to listen to the Cult’s ‘Lucifer’ The Cult are set to release Choice of Weapon their ninth studio album on May 22nd The record is their first full-length work in five years though the band has kept active by putting out “capsules” of new songs and live recordings in recent…

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Hundreds Gather for the Funeral of Etta James

January 29, 2012

Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Etta James as the R&B legend was buried today in Los Angeles The service was held at Greater Bethany Community Church City of Refuge in Gardena A widely-attended public viewing took place on Friday at the Inglewood Cemetery Mortuary where fans…

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Skrillex Takes Control In L.A.

January 29, 2012

  Late in his two-hour set at LA’s Avalon Friday night Skrillex (real name Sonny Moore) held up a lighter and encouraged the crowd to do the same – not with their cell phones or an app of a lighter but with actual lighters just like rock bands used to do back in the…

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LCD Soundsystem Film ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ Premieres at Sundance

January 28, 2012

  Before making James Murphy the centerpiece of their latest film directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace had never met the LCD Soundsystem frontman The filmmakers were fans of the band but it was the timing and casual nature by which Murphy brought LCD to a close that captivated their attention…

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Week in Review: Disney Upsets Joy Division Fans with Mickey Mouse T-Shirt

January 28, 2012

Joy Division is famous for being one of rock’s darkest most intense bands so it comes as no surprise that their fans didn’t have much of a sense of humor about Disney selling a Mickey Mouse t-shirt based on the cover of their 1979 classic Unknown Pleasures After some outrage…

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It’s A Buyer’s Market: Crate-Digging On $100 A Day

January 28, 2012

Set loose in New York’s East Village, Egon takes to the bins of offbeat record stores to hunt down five obscure finds for under $100.
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A Chat with Big Gigantic

January 27, 2012

By: Dennis Cook
Big Gigantic is currently on tour behind their new album, Nocturnal. The duo plays for the next five days at Mayan Holidaze and then return to U.S. on February 2nd in Tallahassee, FL. Find full tour schedule here.
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Drake: I Want to Play President Obama

January 26, 2012

Drake has his eye on eventually playing Barack Obama in a film about the President’s life “I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama’s life soon because I could play him” the rapper and actor told VH1 News at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week “That’s the goal I…

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Peter Hook: Disney’s Joy Division Shirts ‘Might Be the Thing’ to Reunite the Band

January 26, 2012

Peter Hook has a lot of witty one-liners about Disney’s controversial Joy Division-inspired shirts that were yanked from shelves yesterday including ”Because of the amount of money I’ve spent in Disneyland I think they owe me something without a shadow of a doubt” Also “I do wish I’d done the Joy Division…

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Exclusive Download: Sharks’ Anthemic ‘Arcane Effigies’

January 25, 2012

Click to listen to Sharks’ ‘Arcane Effigies’ UK-based punk group Sharks will release their Rise Records debut No Gods on March 20th To promote it they’ll hit the road with Social Distortion and Frank Turner in Las Vegas on January 27th for a February West Coast tour Random Notes No Gods’ lead [...]

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