Filed under: Indie, Music, News, Pop | Tags: Boris Johnson, Knife Aid, Knife Crime, Lily Allen, London
The ‘Smile’ singer, 23, is currently recruiting other stars to perform at the concert, and is reportedly planning to approach Amy Winehouse, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Leona Lewis, Jay-Z, and Sugababes.
Lily said: “My thoughts are with all the families affected by these heinous crimes. We need to have a knife amnesty. And we should put on a big concert to raise awareness and stop the violence.”
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Filed under: Music, News, Rock | Tags: Allergy, David Lee Roth, Denies, Eddie, Nuts, Van Halen
Van Halen singer Dave Lee Roth has been left baffled by a story reported in the media claiming he had suffered a severe allergic reaction to nuts.
Reported claimed two Canadian police man helped save the 53-year-old’s life after he suffered an anaphylactic shock in his car on July 8 in Ontario.
Now, Lee Roth has denied that the incident ever happened or he was even in the city at the time. The rocker also said he wasn’t aware he was allergic to nuts.
He told celebrity blog TMZ.com: “I was in Canada only from July 1st through to the 4th for a performance at the Quebec City Summer Festival. I had no encounters or incidents with the police (and) the only thing I’m allergic to is criticism.”
Filed under: Music, News, Rock | Tags: Crackerman, Duff, Plush, Scott Weiland, slash, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver
There will be another solo Scott Weiland record before a new Stone Temple Pilots album.
Weiland will release the yet-to-be titled album in October.
Scott Weiland’s first and only other solo album ‘12 Bar Blues’ was released in 1998, so this one comes exactly a decade after the first. (more…)
Filed under: Music, News, Rock | Tags: Divorce, Jo, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Ronnie Wood, Russian, Split Up
Ronnie Wood has allegedly left his wife for a Russian teenager. 
The Rolling Stones guitarist, 61, has taken Ekaterine Ivanova, 18 - a cocktail waitress who he met while out drinking – to his luxury home in County Kildare, Ireland, and she has already bragged to friends they are a couple. (more…)
Filed under: Music, Rock | Tags: slash, axl rose, Duff, Guns N' Roses, Fights, Altercations, Matt Sorum, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler, Appetite for Destruction, Use your Illusion, Chinese Democracy
Axl Rose 
Guns N’Roses’ Axl Rose comes in at No.1 for the sheer number of fan versus band scuffles he’s racked up. While other musicians have the odd angry incident hidden in their past, Mr Rose’s battles number too many to name. But let us give you our favourites. There’s was the time he stopped an Argentina show to tell off the audience like pre-schoolers (watch here). There was the time he stopped a Philadelphia show to tell the audience he had a “couple of major arseholes down here,” before threatening “a stupid m***** f****”. (watch here). And let’s not forget the time he confiscated the shirt of a fan he didn’t like and then had him thrown out (watch here). (more…)
Filed under: Music, News, Rock | Tags: 60's, Al Jolson, Crosby, Hendrix, Jimi, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Stills, Stills & Nash
They say if you can remember the Sixties then you weren’t really there. That certainly seems to be the case for Crosby, Stills & Nash member Stephen Stills who’s just a found an album he recorded with Jimi Hendrix. (more…)
Filed under: Music, News, Rock | Tags: Cliff Burton, Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Lloyd Grant, Megadeth, Metal, Metallica, Music, Robert Trujillo, Ron McGovney, trash
Metallica have revealed that they will release their highly anticipated forthcoming album in an unconventional box set.
In a posting on the band’s website, the veteran rockers said that ‘Death Magnetic’ will be available as a limited-edition (more…)
Filed under: Indie, Music, News, Pop, Rock | Tags: Anthony Kiedis, Chili, Flea, Hot, John Frusciante, Lawsuit, Logo, Peppers, Red, Red Hot Chili Peppers
A Florida clothing company that affixed the Red Hot Chili Peppers logo to a jacket has been sued by the merchandising company that owns the rights to the logo, as well as logos of Guns N Roses, Led Zeppelin and more. (more…)
Filed under: Electronica, Music | Tags: Electronic, Electro, Vapourware, Oscilloscope, Gas 0095, korg, Technology
Here is what happens when you pass some raw electronic waveforms through a voltage to electron beam converter, aka an oscilloscope, and map the input voltages to Lissajous curves.
Pure analog in; analog out.
The music is ‘Vapourware‘ from the album Gas 0095.
Equipment used: Sequencial Circuits Pro-One, Korg Station.
Filed under: Indie, Music, News, Rock | Tags: Jason Cooper, Porl Thompson, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, The Cure
The Cure
The Cure are to release new singles on the 13th of each month leading up to the release of their 13th studio album.
The Cure, one of the most revered British bands of the past quarter-century, will release four A & B side singles, one each month. It began on May 13th 2008, leading up to the release of their thirteenth studio album, as yet untitled, which will be out on Suretone/Geffen Records September 13th. It will be the band’s first album of new music since 2004’s self titled album The Cure. Physical and digital singles will be available for purchase in store and on all digital partners. (more…)
