Category Archives: random web stuff

New Bloc Party Video, NME album download & more!

Posted on October 19, 2007 by admin

You can see the video for the new Bloc Party single Flux (due out in the UK on November 14) right here. An intriguing tale of love and robots (plus giant monsters) set to a pounding Moroder-esque Eurobeat with a … Continue reading →

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Slash Story

Posted on October 16, 2007 by admin

In what could quite possibly be a better book than the Crue’s The Dirt, Guns N’ Roses own Slash has a story to tell. Guns! Drugs! Porn Stars! Axl! Drugs! More Drugs!! Even More Drugs!!! ‘Yeah, yeah, cool, man,’ I … Continue reading →

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Debbie Does Hollywood?

Posted on October 16, 2007 by admin

Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME

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Andrew Weatherall news

Posted on October 12, 2007 by admin

General all-round top geezer, genius and (kind of) Mick Jones lookalike Andrew Weatherall has a blog. Read it here. And while we’re on the subject of the man himself, here’s a personal playlist he put together for a map of … Continue reading →

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If you’re looking for the cover art for the new Radiohead album

Posted on October 12, 2007 by admin

that you just downloaded – the wait is over. Here you go: Bill

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If you only have one hour of your life to listen to the Beatles…

Posted on October 10, 2007 by admin

…your prayers have been answered! The complete Beatles catalogue sped up 800% to fit an hour long mp3. Details here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html Surprisingly enough, it’s pretty tough to listen to, but, things get more interesting/better when these sped up tracks are … Continue reading →

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So, whatever happened to that baby on the cover of Nevermind?

Posted on August 16, 2007 by admin

And that girl on the cover of the Violent Femmes first album? Thanks to the wonders of the modern internet, we can now know. Take this link Note: They seem to have airbrushed out the baby’s pen1s from the Nirvana … Continue reading →

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It’s Just Like A Cassette, But Not!

Posted on August 14, 2007 by admin

From here: Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s? If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette … Continue reading →

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New Joy Division & new Mick Jones!

Posted on August 9, 2007 by admin

From the NME (http://www.nme.com/news/30194): Joy Division‘s back catalogue is to be reissued with extra material to coincide with the release of ‘Control’, the biopic about their singer Ian Curtis. Both the band’s studio albums, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’, and the … Continue reading →

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Where are my friends tonight? Again…

Posted on July 26, 2007 by admin

Great article on the ‘melancholy greatness’ of LCD Soundsystem’s fabulous ‘All My Friends’ by Hua Hsu at Slate. Read it here. Big thanks go to ‘friend of nothingelseon’ James for the link. B

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