According to NME, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree plans to run in a local UK council election as a Labour candidate. Rowntree told The Independent: “I’ve been a long-standing member of the Labour party and active in local politics for a while.” Despite his fame, NME opines that Rowntree might not have much luck as the […]

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Prepare yourself for baggy pastel suits and gratuitous sax solos, as I try to avoid a ban pun incorporating the bands only US hit, “True”, Q has the scoop on these former New Romantics. This really is just wholly unnecessary. But I guess if The Outfield is still touring, these guys could justify it too. […]

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Having fled the UK for child pornography charges, glam rock joke Gary Glitter is currently trying to obtain a reduction in his three year sentence for “obscene acts with a child.” He’s hoping that a reduction could coincide with “an amnesty that marks Vietnam’s Liberation Day on April 30.” Glitter’s been listed as a sex […]

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The plan is to record new versions of songs off Sgt. Pepper to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Beatles’ landmark album’s release, but the question is why? Other bands signed up for what will inevitably be an aural shit stew are Razorlight, James Morrison, The Fratellis, and Travis. God, how completely awful just reading these names together, […]

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Lou Barlow has confessed to NME that, while his participation in the Dinosaur Jr. reunion was partly for the money, “anything I do with Sebadoh is not for the money. I don’t really make money off of Sebadoh.” Hmm. Ok, but surely all the upcoming Sebadoh reissues are going to make money for someone. “We’re […]

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Hmm. Not sure how wise of an idea this would be, but Police guitarist Andy Summers told NME, “If we do well with these concerts we may well make a sixth album. I can’t see why not.” I can see why not. Because it will in all likelihood be an abomination. Sting’s songwriting has been […]

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Those promos on Sirius’ Left of Center that say “great bands existed before (fill in the blank)” annoy the piss out of me. Editors is one of the bands frequently used as an example of an inferred current “great” band. Whatever. And then it’s usually followed up by Fugazi’s “Do You Like Me?”, which is […]

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