Ravi Shankar Dead at the Age of 92 Indian sitar legend, influencer of the Beatles, and father of Norah Jones – Ravi Shankar – has passed away at the age of 92 (via Stereogum). He died from complications from recent...
Eminem Use Baseball Hat to Announce New Album for 2013 Eminem has a ‘Baseball Tribute Champ Hat’ for sale on his website, with the side panel dedicated to “landmark Eminem solo albums.” Either this hat is some kind of psychic...
Glastonbury Tickets Go On Sale, Glastonbury Tickets Have Sold Out England’s legendary June festival, Glastonbury, put their tickets on sale this past weekend. Who’s playing? It doesn’t matter! Without a line up, the festival managed to sell out all of...
Love Me Do Turns 50 It was 50 years ago today Sgt Pepper taught the band to play that the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do (via Guardian). Sadly they were never heard from again. Well, the single...
Earlier this month, Canadian indie pop band Stars unleashed their sixth studio album, The North. What followed were good reviews, and a debut week that found them at the number 5 spot on the Canadian Album charts, the number 3...
The Woman-Beater Sticker Appears Again, This Time on a John Lennon CD I thought it was pretty awesome that stickers reading “Warning: do not buy this album this man beats women” appeared on Chris Brown CDs in some HMV stores...
Dr. Dre is Rich, Ringo Starr is Rich, You and I Are Not Rich (Unless It’s Dre or Ringo Reading This) Dr. Dre, the rap and producing legend (who also has a series of headphones to rival my line –...
Mark David Chapman – clearly a killer because he uses his middle name (think Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Booth) – was denied parole for a seventh time for the murder of John Lennon (via Gigwise). He will continue...
20 Year Old Dies At V Festival; The Killers Cover Oasis The semi-colon is ever-so important in the headline, as it looks like the killers of a 20 year old decided to cover Oasis at V Fest. In fact, they...
Dear IOC. Please do not sue me for embedding these videos. Someone else uploaded them. Performers Arctic Monkeys even linked to them. I am paying to go to the Olympics. I think these are all excellent reasons why I shouldn’t...
Just What We Need: Another Beatles Compilation For those who grew up after the Beatles broke up (read: me), it was hard not to consume them through compilation albums. We had the double red and blue albums, the Anthologies series,...
Being a 3-man news organization has its moments of hand-to-the-forehead idiocy at some of the stuff you miss while asleep. Today, some music notes that we totally missed in the past 2-3 weeks… sorry. Green Day announces new material Yup....
The Black Keys recording new album in July Having just released El Camino in December, The Black Keys will be back in the studio in July, with the intention of releasing a new studio album ‘sometime in 2013. Via Consequence...
An Interview with Damon Albarn Fans of Damon Albarn – here’s something to get you excited for the summer. The Blur frontman, the creative collaborator behind Gorillaz, is working on a new opera based on the life of mathematician, astrologer,...
There are producer who do ‘mashups”, and there is Sam Redmore. Sam Redmore is a Birmingham UK producer that might just make your Sunday. He is a producer and DJ, but rather than the big beat, Sam Redmore specializes in...
