Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
As they say on the street in Charing Cross, the shortlists for the inaugural UK Music Video Awards were announced last week. A good crop of videos, as I think you'll agree:Best Pop Video:Duffy, "Mercy"Goldfrapp, "Happiness"Kate Nash, "Foundations"The Hoosiers, "Cops...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
In England "grass" is a verb. While it continues to be the commodity that grows greener on the other side of the fence, a "fence" is a receiver of stolen property who later sells it off as legitimate. If caught, a fence might get a barrister to represent him in court. The barrister is someone who has been called to the bar which gives him the right to represent the fence and convince the court there...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Los Angeles - R.E.M., Modest Mouse, Spoon, Death Cab for Cutie, Jarvis Cocker, The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, and Fleet Foxes are just a few of the artists whose handmade signs featured in Under the Radars Protest Issue will be auctioned off beginning September 30th to benefit War Child International...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
A French crime boss has denied shooting an inmate as he exercised in a prison yard, claiming he was on the hill where the gunman stood but that he was just 'picking mushrooms'.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Assassin fires rifle from hill
Spinneyhead (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
A supergrass being held in a French prison has been shot and killed by a sniper firing from a hill that overlooked the exercise yard .
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Just to prove that not all my choices come from the 1960s, here is a contemporary band. Not only that, but they originally came from Leicestershire - Ashby de la Zouch, to be precise. It is hard to resist the feeling that you have heard this song before somewhere (Supergrass? early Blur? early Divine Comedy'), but impossible to say exactly where. Maybe music is like writing: if you copy enough different...
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The nominations for the inaugural UK Music video awards have been announced, with the list below showing that there is still plenty of life in the promos industry, despite the doom and gloom that often surrounds it these days. The winners will be revealed on October 14 in a glittering ceremony that will take place in London's West End. Tickets are available for the event here . And the nominations...
PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Saturday night, Los Angeles’ Darker My Love played a hard and dark acid rock set supporting The Dandy Warhols on their headlining tour. The five piece’s psychedelic approach to music was beautifully accented with a large project screen behind the band playing a series of trippy visualizations, which bummed me out about the box office [...]
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Stereophonics join some of their Britpop peers (Blur, Oasis, Travis, Suede, Supergrass, and fellow Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers) later this year with their first greatest hits compilation. Titled “Decade in the Sun: The Best of Stereophonics” it comes eleven years after their first album “Word Gets Around” which like the debuts of the [...]
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
01 Caught By The Fuzz Supergrass 2:20 02 Rock 'n' Roll Star Oasis 6:41 03 The Day We Caught The Train Ocean Colour Scene 3:10 04 Allotment Reef 4:52 05 Alright Cast 3:36 06 Eternal Life Jeff Buckley 5:13 07 Just Like Heaven The Cure 3:29 08 Sorted For E's & Wizz Pulp 4:23 09 Gravity Grave The Verve 8:59 10 Chime Orbital 8:05/p> SOURCE SDB SOUND QUALITY A+ FORMAT Mp3 BITRATE 224 TRACKS # 10 LOCATION...
WhyFame (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Josh Hartnett looked his usual hunky self as he departed the Apollo theatre in London, after another performance of Rain Man. The american actor will be residing in the UK until December, as he continues his part as Charlie Babbitt, originally played by Tom Cruise in the 1988 Hollywood blockbuster.If you haven't seen the play make sure you check... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
inca kola news (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
If you do, then click right here . It's a PDF in Spanish and English, it was recorded on November 30th last year in a restaurant and it's a conversation between Guido Antonini (supergrass) and Moises Maionica (one of the "foreign agents") . Be warned: it's 155 pages long. Have fun!
New Musical Express (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Supergrass are set to play a one-off London show.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A TOTAL of nearly 70 Superlambanana sculptures were sold for the staggering sum of £550,000 at a charity auction held at St George’s Hall, in Liverpool, last night.
