Re-United Suede To Tour In 2011
The UK glam rock band who ushered in the Brit Pop movement and dissolved in 2003, got back this year for a charity and now plan to tour the UK. […]
The UK glam rock band who ushered in the Brit Pop movement and dissolved in 2003, got back this year for a charity and now plan to tour the UK. […]
I’ve written posts, reviews, school assignments, and interviewed Motion City Soundtrack. But I honestly believe this band changed my life. When I was (even more) a youngin’, about ten or eleven,
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This should shock you as much as it shocks me, but there is a real good interview on Billboard.com by Mark Hopper with Nathan Williams of the great, great, great
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Somebody somewhere has to organize the Bob Dylan catalogue because this bootleg series isn’t doing it. What is needed is an album by album box set reissue. Say $100 or
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Want to meet the sassy editors of formerly cool music rag Spin Magazine? Well in a world of crap glossies at least Spin writes about music in between advertising unlike
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Great news, Black Veil Brides have made first round consideration for “Best New Artist” for the 2010 Grammys This is pretty amazing stuff tweeted last night by Andy Six, BVB
The 600 hundred capacity Brooklyn Bowl played host to Kanye West for a 2am set Friday night. West played a five song set: ”So Appalled”, “Monster”, “Devil in a New
So sorry to hear about the death of the great lover’s rocker Gregpry Isaacs. Night Nurse was a huge hit in the 80s and it ushered in a period where
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First off lets clear this up right now.. this is not Abba. Its a erm quad of people called The Recues. They’re doing a cover of Teenage Dream and Katy
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