Fresh off collaborations with both The Raconteurs and Timbaland, Sweden’s The Hives have the bug again, partnering up this time with another unlikely producer. The band met Pharrell Williams in Japan a while back, wherein Williams suggested getting together for something “bass guitar-based.” They recorded together in Miami, and Howlin Pelle promises that “some of […]

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To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Bob Marley’s Exodus, which the highly discerning editors of Time Magazine called the best album of the 20th Century (what???), Island Records plans to re-release the album as a limited edition USB flash drive, priced at an exorbitant $44.99. Island justifies the price hike to account […]

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Matt Sharp’s cutesy, tongue-in-cheek, sythn-pop Weezer side project, The Rentals, turned into a full-time job after he left the Weezer-mothership in early 1998. But after 1999’s underwhelming sophomore record, Seven More Minutes, Sharp disbanded The Rentals and moved out to the boondocks of Tennessee. About the same time that Sharp released a weird self-titled solo […]

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I heard an NPR piece on Courtney Love a few weeks ago. The woman is over 40 and sounds like a stoned piece of used jet-trash when she talks. I know she’s 100% “punk” and everything and talking like a “suit” is unthinkable, but you’d think she’d be able form a cohesive thought without saying […]

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Keep Your Eyes Open – The Fugazi photographs of Glen E. Friedman will be released by Burning Flags Press on September 3, 2007, marking the 20th anniversary of Fugazi’s first-ever show to the day. Friedman is a famed photographer of the early American punk and hardcore scenes. An exhibition of his work just ended May […]

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1,400 fans will get to watch Prince perform in his hometown of Minneapolis at the local Macy’s department store on July 7, as the singer launches his new ‘3121’ fragrance. For a whirlwind tour featuring Prince at local department stores and discount marts, one can purchase the Ultimate Prince Xperience, which, get this, guarantees entry […]

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This can’t be good. CBS has purchased Last.fm for $280 million. Says a CBS representative: “We’re emulating what Fox did with MySpace. There are a lot of super-cool, whiz-bang applications they have that I can’t wait to apply to other parts of the business.” Whiz-bang applications? When corporate fruitcakes use terms like that it shows […]

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