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...
If you watched the London 2012 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremonies, you will have noticed THE QUEEN AND JAMES BOND that Underworld did a pretty great job scoring the music. Arguably the stand out piece was Caliban’s Dream, which featured Alex...
Post-Olympic Opening Ceremony Sales Boost So who here watched the Queen jump out of a helicopter with James Bond on Friday night? If you have no clue what I’m talking about, you were either as drunk as I was, or...
I had my first taste of the Olympics last night, heading to Old Trafford to see Great Britain draw Senegal in the men’s football. We got to see 2 matches in Manchester, and they ran out of fuckin’ food before...
The Happy Mondays Are Latest Band to Reunite for a New Record Another day, another Manchester band reforming. Although they’d already reformed for a tour, the Happy Mondays will be recording some new music for the first time in 20...
Okay, the last word in the headline is a little corny, but I needed a third word about the themes of this playlist, and my grasp of the English language is poor (as regular readers will know – pffft, “regular”...
For some reason, there’s going to be a LOT of people in London for the next 2.5 or 3 weeks. A lot of these people will want Internet – data roaming fees aren’t what they’re cracked up to be. UK...
Sometimes you shouldn’t place faith in the general public, especially when it comes to technologies like Twitter. We’ve seen abandoned Twitter marketing campaigns, like McDonalds or Rogers, due to overwhelming negative support by the Twitter-using public. The London landmark, the...
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!...
The 2012 London Summer Olympics are fast approaching and legendary UK electronic duo, The Chemical Brothers, have gone and created original music for the cycling venue, the Velodrome (via consequenceofsound.net). How f’n cool is that? I’m pretty sure the velodrome...
The Summer Olympics will be here by month’s end. The Olympic ‘suits’ have decided that the official song of the 2012 London games will be Survival by Muse. You’ve heard the track here on PHM, now see the video (via...
We already told you here at PHM about UK rock band Muse‘s upcoming new album, The 2nd Law (out in September), and shown you the kick-ass trailer the band released for it. Muse has now released the new single, Survival,...
Watch Out Jay-Z, The Flaming Lips are Coming For Your Record Jay-Z currently has the Guinness Book of World Records record for “most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities”, who held 7 shows in 7 cities in 2006....
Damon Albarn is Making Another Solo Album Damon Albarn’s Dr. Dee opera soundtrack album is about to be released, but that hasn’t stopped him from announcing to BBC Radio 4 that he’s making a record under ‘his own name’ (via...
A Little More Info on Info on Dave Grohl’s Sound City Documentary We’ve known that Dave Grohl is doing a documentary on Sound City, the record studios in Van Nuys, California. Now the man himself has spoken out about it...
