As the executor of Kurt Cobain’s estate, former Hole frontwoman, Courtney Love, has every legal right to do what she likes with Cobain’s belongings, but her constant pursuit of cash has long since passed the point of tackiness. Love’s latest scheme is to sell Cobain’s personal affects: “My daughter doesn’t need to inherit a giant […]

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Blur plans to meet up in the studio this summer to decide whether to record an album or call it quits. Estranged guitarist Graham Coxon is on board for the meeting, where the band will decide if it can work together productively, after his acrimonious split with the band in 2002. Bassist Alex James confirmed […]

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If you get handcufed to a hook in Boy George’s London house, you have obviously made more than a few incorrect decisions in your life. The former Culture Club frontman has been arrested for allegations of false imprisonment and assault, involving a 28 year old man, Auden Carleson. Carleson had been invited to George’s house […]

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Ben Folds is apparently a big Dresden Dolls fan. According to Spin.com, Folds randomly emailed the band “cofessing his love” for the duo, and now Amanda Palmer is recording her solo debut in Folds’ Nashville, TN studio. “When I told him I’d gladly squat there to make my solo record, he offered to produce it. I didn’t […]

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On what authority I am unaware, but Punknews.org is claiming that Crass frontman Steve Ignorant is planning a night of “love, music, film, performance, and anger” as he and a full band are set to perform Crass’ classic The Feeding of the 5000 album over two nights this November 24th and 25th at London’s Shepard’s Bush […]

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Billboard has had an advance listen to Interpol’s forthcoming third LP, entitled Our Love to Admire, which is due out July 10th via Capitol. The first single is “The Heinrich Maneuver”, which Billboard characterizes as “a peppy kiss-off to an ex-love now residing on the opposite coast.” Other tracks find the band on “familiar footing” […]

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‘Control’, the biographical film based on the life of Ian Curtis, will be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, according to NME. Directed by long-time Joy Division collaborater Anton Corbijn, the film chronicles the final years of the doomed singer, who committed suicide on May 18, 1980. The script is based on the book […]

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