Iceland Airwaves will go ahead
Organisers of Iceland's biggest and one of Europe's best festivals have confirmed that the event will still go ahead, despite huge economic problems with the Icelandic economy. »
October 10th, 2008
Watch: Department of Eagles 'Herringbone'
The folks over at 4AD have given us a heads up about this new video from Brooklyn duo Department of Eagles. They do subtle brooding ache pretty darn well and for additional indie points feature some fellas from Grizzly Bear. You probably downloaded their album before they recorded it. »
Chinese Democracy gets a release date
Tony Jacobs, VP of marketing for Dr. Pepper had this to say: "We're waiting to hear about Chinese Democracy just like all the other GNR fans. But if the rumours are true, we're putting the Dr Pepper on ice." »
Peaches teams up with SMD and Digitalism for her fifth album
Sex-obsessed electro-queen Peaches has revealed she's collaborating with Simian Mobile Disco and Digitalism for her forthcoming fifth album.»
October 9th, 2008
DiScussion: Does poverty inspire great art?
“Music is our distraction from destruction,” or is it? DiS looks at great music which would never have existed in prosperous times. »
American idiots? Crazy US news round-up
No Age's Randy Randall has fired an angry e-missive after being told he couldn't wear a T-shirt bearing Barack Obama's name during a recent television appearance»
Digital wars: YouTube to sell music, Myspace tries but fails
Just as über-popular video streaming service YouTube announced it would start flogging the music behind the movies, social networking behemoth Myspace was forced to shut down its own digital outlet»
Prima Donna? Rufus Wainwright pens opera
It was always on the cards, really, wasn't it? Rufus Wainwright is to stage his first opera at next summer's Manchester International Festival»
Holy Foals! Touring buddies cover each other
If you're planning on attending any of the many dates on Foals' current tour, look out for a special purchase at the merch stand»
New Site News: One week on, what works, what's still to come...
One week on and Tom Waddington, our web guru, has been working around the clock to make things work. As we said when we launched it's going to take us at least a month to begin to finish the new site; there is so much still to be done aside from stomping out a few rogue bugs but we had to go live so that the development of the site could be finished. This is where we're at...»
October 8th, 2008
Weezer world records: new video does five things never done before
Original web geek rockers Weezer have broken five world records with their latest video.»
The Rakes retreat to Berlin to make new album
"The London music scene is so dull right now - it's like wading through a swamp of shit. We just wanted to be somewhere more inspiring," says The Rakes singer Alan Donohoe.»
