Kate Moss and the Kills’ Jamie Hince apparently had a lovers’ spat that was so awful, Moss decided to pitch some of Hince’s belongings into a nearby pool… including a laptop that contained the only recordings of six new Kills songs. Finally, a case of a girlfriend actually destroying her paramour’s band’s musical output, instead of the trumped-up tales that you hear from so many nooks and crannies of the rock-lore world. [Mirror via Matthew Perpetua] More »
If reality TV had been as soul-crushing in the 1990s as it is in the era when The Real World‘s overarching message was more “too drunk to fuck” than “it wasn’t not funny” (OK maybe that’s a bad example there), a cast of that decade’s Surreal Life equivalent would have looked like this press release for the Lemonheads’ new all-covers album Varshons. Aside from Evan Dando, there is a serious cavalcade of stars aspect to the whole enterprise, which I suppose is part of the point. But–Gibby Haynes! Kate Moss! G.G. Allin–wait, isn’t he dead? More »