The film, which chronicles the (sad) lives of obsessive Morrissey fans has no release date as of yet, but it’s called Passions Just Like Mine and is currently in post-production: “The stories will be told through the eyes of the fans themselves. Audiences will be able to see first hand how obsessed these fans really […]

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Billboard is reporting Columbia Records will release Magic — the newest record from Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band — on October 2. It represents the first studio collaboration between Springsteen & Co. since 2002’s The Rising, which was in itself their first studio album together since 1984’s Born in the U.S.A. In other […]

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Famous urophiliac R. Kelly ain’t done with his serial slow-jamz soap opera, “Trapped in the Closet,” by a damn sight. Oh, goody. What began as a sprawling, subversive song in 12 parts has been expanded by 10 episodes, and all of the videos are available for streaming on the Independent Film Channel’s site. Meanwhile, the […]

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Queen guitarist Brian May made headlines earlier this month in the United Kingdom for turning in his astronomy PhD thesis some 36 years after he abandoned it to pursue his rock career. Quoth the Beeb: “May recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of ‘zodiacal dust clouds.’ The subject forms […]

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It only makes sense that the land that brought us both Bach and Beethoven and Holger Czukay and Irmin Schmidt would be the first to even think about transcribing Lou Reed’s 1975 hocus pocus opus. Back in March of 2002, saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and accordion player Lucca Venitucci had their 34-page, through composed score performed […]

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Mission of Burma was one of those bands I never thought I’d have the chance to see live. They’d broken up well before I was even aware of them, so when news started spreading that the band was reuniting back in 2002, I was hesitant, skeptical, yet also kind of excited. Reunions are almost always a dead-lock […]

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The Pet Shop Boys are set to release Disco 4, which features remixes of tracks by The Killers, Madonna, Yoko Ono, and David Bowie. But Blur’s “Girls and Boys” has been vetoed for inclusion by none other than Blur/Gorillaz/The Good The Bad and The Queen frontman Damon Albarn because he feels that the Pet Shop Boys morphed the […]

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