Two unhappy rockers

The Darkness lead-singer, Justin Hawkins, is not very happy. The reason, he had to blow $600 on a copy of his own CD! A copy of the bands soon-to-be-released album “One Way Ticket to Hell … and Back” somehow popped up on eBay and cost Hawkins £350 to stop from getting out, making somebody a [...]

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JamisonPark “officially broken up”

“there will be new music, new bands, and more touring in the near future… just not together and not as jamisonparker”, ’nuff said. For anyone planning on tuning into the radio tonight, there’ll be plenty of tributes to the acoustic legends.

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For One Night Only

You may well have noticed that “Radio” option in the navigation but got a little annoyed when you clicked it and it went no-where (like most of the links, but that won’t be the case for much longer) but for one night only the radio will be live for all you indie fans. Unfortunately the [...]

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Tragedy for DMBQ

I’d like to dedicate this post to the memory of Mana “China” Nishiura, lead-singer of the renowned Japanese rockers DMBQ. Over the weekend, the band was involved in a motor accident whilst on route to their Brooklyn gig. All that’s known so far is that a car, driven by a twenty year old female, swerved [...]

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Hives put plans down for new album

Having recently wrapped up their last tour in Australia, accompanying the release of their attention grabbing “Tyrannosaurus Hives”, The Hives are set to return to Sweden and take a break before putting their next great release into motion. Hopefully it’ll live up to the mixture of punk energy and mod guitar-rock style they’ve become so [...]

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Styrofoam get ready for a third tour of the US, Belle and Sebastian get ready to hit the UK

Arne Van Petegem’s outfit “Styrofoam”, perhaps Belgiums greatest claim to fame yet, is prepping himself for his third tour of the mighty US of A, which kicks off tomorrow, and this time he’s enlisted a little help. “Alias”, a contributing band in Styrofoams first album “Nothing’s Lost”, will be opening the gig. Unfortunately the other [...]

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A story of covers

Franz Ferdinand, arguably the pride of British Indie, are apparently taking a sharp turn with their latest single “Walk Away” and are planning to back it with a style-switching cover of Air’s “Sexy Boy”. Rumour has it the single will be hitting the shelves on December 5th in the UK, in 3 different formats:

7″ – [...]

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