Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye are about to release album number two. If they have the dreaded “sophomore slump” they could be in trouble, as album number one didn’t exactly set the world on fire. TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek...
Guitarist for Matt Mays, Jay Smith, Died After Edmonton Show Sad news in Canadian rock. One of guitarist for Matt Mays – Jay Smith – died after the band’s show in Edmonton. I just saw Matt Mays play at the...
Indie Music Accounted for Almost One Third of All 2012 Sales in the USA The American Association of Independent Music has pointed out that 2012’s Soundscan stats show that indie labels accounted for 32.6% of music sales in the USA...
Paul McCartney to Guest Star on Hillsborough Charity Single In England, the Hillsborough football disaster has been a pretty big deal for a couple of decades. This year, the truth behind the police’s falsification of many of the day’s reports...
Mum Confirms Arctic Monkeys New Album Rumour Strangely the other night, #ArcticMonkeys5thAlbum started trending on Twitter. I scoured the Internet for information, but thought it was just someone having a laugh. It turns out it was initially tweeted by @ArcticMonkeysUS,...
New Soundgarden Album Out in November Chris Cornell has gone back to his ex-lovers, Soundgarden, and after a successive (read: profitable) tour, the band have recorded an album. This is old news, I know. But what’s new is the release...
SURPRISE – Noel Gallagher Makes Fun of Liam’s Olympic Closing Ceremony Gig Rumour has it Noel Gallagher turned down the Olympic Closing Ceremony slot, rejecting a chance to sing Wonderwall. Somewhat surprisingly, Beady Eye decided to cover the Noel-penned Oasis...
Amy Winehouse Album Sales, One Year After Her Death Yesterday marked one year since Amy Winehouse suddenly passed away. A look at the charts shows she had a great year for record sales but not a great year for living...
Giving the Olympics What They Want, What They Really Really Want Britain has produced arguably the greatest rock bands of all-time. Then why oh why are they getting the Spice Girls to reunite for the Closing Ceremonies? Oh yeah, ratings!...
Thom Yorke to Appear on New Flying Lotus Album Hot on the heels of seeing Thom Yorke in Radiohead last night, we have some Thom Yorke news for you. Mr. Yorke will appear on FlyLo’s upcoming album, Until The Quiet...
Coachella in tax battle – may relocate Certainly some heavy politics in play here – but Goldenvoice is threatening to move the Coachella Festival outside of Indio CA if a proposed tax is put onto the local ballot in 2013....
Manchester United (my favourite team) have pretty much dominated English football (note: soccer) for the past two decades. Manchester City, their cross town rivals, have not. Until last year, they have not won anything of significance for quite some time....
Steven Tyler Has “Accident” in the Shower Although never a huge Aerosmith fan, one can never pass on a joke at their expense, specifically Steven Tyler. Singer Steven Tyler, famous for being on American Idol the lead singer of Aerosmith,...
Muse Likely To Have An Album in 2012 I’m also likely to win the lottery. So it seems the folks at Muse must read PHM, and didn’t take kindly to my dig about their slow album release dates. The band...
Chris Cornell to Release New Album ‘Songbook’ I was sitting at home the other day, flipping through my Alt 90s CD collection and thinking to myself, “This collection is missing some more Soundgarden, specifically a “I didn’t see that coming”...
