Well, the battle between a kinda old political song and a pretty hollow Miley Cyrus cover has been decided. Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 single “Killing in the Name” sold more than 500,000 copies in the last week, more than enough to beat Joe McElderry’s “The Climb” in the race to be this year’s Christmas … [Read more…]
Some musicians are known to be reclusive individuals, so it might be easy to cut them a break if they make some sort of mistake in the rare times they enter the public eye. Pete Doherty is not one of these musicians. The former Libertines frontman spends plenty of time in the spotlight, be it … [Read more…]
I’m still kicking it over at True/Slant, and my latest is a piece on an Australian news site’s puff piece on the new My Chemical Romance album. Read it. Reblog it. Tweet it. Tumblr it. Love it.
It’s true… Pete Wentz is a genius. Or someone at Fall Out Boy camp has got it going on in their noggin. A smattering of break-up rumors cropped up online, fresh on the heels of the Tuesday release of the band’s greatest hits album Believers Never Die. Take the NME tweet from just yesterday: Fall … [Read more…]
Overlooked in the Aughts is an ongoing feature focusing on some of the best albums from the 2000s that haven’t quite received the attention they deserved. Today’s post: Aereogramme’s A Story In White. Metal. It’s one word that can just about demolish any band’s chances of gaining the kind of audience they might deserve. Of gaining … [Read more…]
Roundup of various end of the year music lists…