We thought long and hard about how to best exploit celebrate Halloween on the site, but it wasn’t until this e-mail message popped up last week that we knew what we had to do: “Glenn Danzig is doing new-media interviews on 10/31,” it said. “Interested?” And how! More »
PICK TO CLICK: Ghostface – Ghost Is Back [more info] Alva – Edward Gorey / Kill Everyone [more info] Faith No More – Everything’s Ruined [more info] IV Thieves – Mother’s Dilemma / Take This Heart [more info] Nas – Hip Hop Is Dead [more info] Nirvana – Do You Love Me? More »
This poster is going up at bus stations all around London, part of a guerilla campaign by commuters who are sick of hearing other peoples’ music on their daily bus rides. More »
It’s Halloween, and who better to help us celebrate than Glenn Danzig, the former lead singer of the Misifts? Glenn’s been commenting all day from his hideout in Latvia, and since so many of you had questions for him, we thought we’d let him answer. After the click-through, GD’s words of wisdom–and please enjoy, because it took him like four hours to write these:
In an effort to boost accountant awareness in China (really!), the Hong Kong Institute Of CPAS produced this video for their blazing new hip-hop single, “‘Tute In Da House.” Normally, this would not be that funny–we’ve had our fill of “look how intentionally badly we can all rap!” More »
The first single from Ghostface’s More Fish–his second full-length of 2006, set to come out on Dec. 19–the fiery “Ghost Is Back” is awesome, with Ghostface boasting (and name-checking Ruben Studdard) over the bass-heavy backing track from Eric B. and Rakim’s “Juice (Know the Ledge).” More »
Reports from last weekend’s Vegoose festival, which boasted a ferris wheel, sets by Tom Petty and the Killers, and lots of hippies (above), are filtering into the blogosphere. More »
AOL has been stepping up its online music efforts lately, and last week it rebranded its indie offerings under the spinner.com umbrella. More »
For the past few months, we’ve been analyzing Rolling Stone’s famed reviews section, wondering if our long-held conspiracy-theory query was true: Does every album in this damn magazine automatically get three stars? More »
The total recorded output of the Florida trio Alva clocks in at under an hour, and their debut album, the John Zorn-shepherded Fair-Haired Guillotine, is only available via Japanese import at present. More »
