– Kevin Federline will get $1 million from his divorce settlement, which will allow him to buy approximately 166,944 used copies of Playing With Fire from Amazon, plus two sticks of Axe Dry. More »
In 1988, Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye and Ministry’s Al Jourgensen teamed up to form Pailhead, a one-off side project that combined hardcore with industrial, and was therefore unlistenable to more than 90 percent of the earth’s population. More »
Many thanks to this week’s sponsors, who are still singing along to “Gettin’ Libby Wit It.” If you’d like to join this motley crue, you can find more information here. More »
– If this post helps bring about the Hanoi Rocks revival, we will feel mighty pleased. [La Blogotheque] – Before Bono was Bono, he was just another dude whose band put out a 7-inch. Oh, the things that can happen in 28 years! More »
On Feb. 15th, MP3 files from an advance copy of Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead… showed up onto the web, nearly five weeks before the album’s official release date. Mouse fans with even the slightest bit of web savvy could now download their own version of the album, and within days, message boards and blogs were bustling with pro-or-con discussions, many of which were poorly hyphenated, and more than a little caustic. The fans had the record, free of charge; there was really no reason to expect they’d show up a month later and actually purchase a copy.
But during its debut week, Dead went on to sell 129,000 copies–enough to put the album at the top of the Billboard chart, and to once again prove what we’ve been saying for years: Leaks don’t hurt.
There’s a rumor going around this morning that the iPhone–the Apple-crafted iPod/phone hybrid that will allegedly change the world in ways that haven’t been seen since March 6–will be released on June 11. But that date, which was allegedly confirmed by a Cingular customer service manager, smells fishy to our gadget-laden siblings at Gizmodo:
“Umbrella” is the first track from Rihanna’s upcoming Good Girl Gone Bad; it’s also, so far, as we can tell, the first song to drop an indirect Abigail Breslin reference. More »
– When Gwen Stefani can’t stomach your singing, you clearly need to figure out a way to get luck on your side. – Just when we thought we couldn’t get more offended by Karl Rove’s antics, we did. – Modest Mouse was this week’s big cheese, leak or no leak. More »
PICK: Pailhead – Man Should Surrender [more info] 1990s – You’re Supposed To Be My Friend [more info] Blood Red Shoes – ADHD [more info] Pailhead – Ballad / I Will Refuse [more… More »
Not to toot our own horns, but today we got a nice little bit of confirmation that those Nine Inch Nails leaks from a month or so ago were actually the work of Trent Reznor, and that the RIAA acted a bit too hastily in calling in their lawyers. More »