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Stress Position: I hate Radiohead’s OK Computer

Mon, April 22 2013 4:20am - Source: Consequence of Sound

Welcome to another installment of Stress Position, where we test a writer's patience and insanity by forcing them to listen to an album they hate for 12 hours straight.

MY CANONBALL PICK: AL GREEN’S I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU

Sat, April 20 2013 7:22am - Source: Soul Sides

First of all…sorry for being gone for so long.

The Black Market: The Month In Metal — March 2013

Thu, March 28 2013 7:33pm - Source: Stereogum

I started my marathon at Show No Mercy's showcase and closed it at Invisible Oranges'.

March is Metal Month: The Black Dahlia Murder’s Trevor Strnad Discusses All Things Death Metal with MetalSucks, and Shares His Personal Spotify Death Metal Playlist!

Wed, March 27 2013 6:28pm - Source: Metal Sucks

The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad Discusses All Things Death Metal with MetalSucks, and Shares His Personal Spotify Death Metal Playlist!

LIVE REPORT: DRILL LONDON - OTO

Sat, March 23 2013 2:17pm - Source: The Quietus

Wire's Graham Lewis does the honours, opening both the weekend part of the Quietus-assisted Drill:London... and a gaping abyss in the middle of everyone's Friday evening.

Top 5 Isolated Tracks

Wed, February 27 2013 1:20am - Source: The Four Oh Five

There's something brilliantly bewitching (and a little eerie) about isolated tracks, which have been popping up on YouTube with greater regularity than Harlem Shake videos.

Deconstructing: Chris Brown, Surfer Blood, And Villainizing Entertainers

Wed, February 13 2013 8:26pm - Source: Stereogum

Chris Brown stayed busy these last few weeks adding to his long rap sheet of objectionable behavior.

Foals – Holy Fire

Fri, February 08 2013 8:24am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Once you've attained a certain amount of attention and acclaim, expectations become rife.

Keith Shadwick: Jimi Hendrix: Musician

Thu, February 07 2013 5:18pm - Source: Here Comes The Flood

It's not a problem to fill a couple of shelves with books about Jimi Hendrix.

How Suggs' missing memoir left a publisher out of pocket

Fri, January 25 2013 10:22pm - Source: The Independent - Music

A delay to one unnamed "key Christmas title" meant profits in the year to the end of last December would be "significantly below market expectations", the management revealed.

Radio-Activity II: Today, Bowie & Evan Davis' Pierced Nipples

Sat, January 12 2013 12:30pm - Source: The Quietus

How brilliant it is when the BBC brings you a surprise in the morning.

You Ain’t No Picasso’s Favorite Albums of 2012

Mon, January 07 2013 2:59pm - Source: You Ain't No Picasso

Recorded in 2010, Louis CK's Word was used in bits and pieces in those cutaway comedy scenes in Louie.

"Too Much Horror Business - The Kirk Hammett Collection" Review — 5 out of 5 stars

Tue, October 02 2012 1:41pm - Source: ArtistDirect

Rock star books never go out of style, but no one has challenged or changed the tried-and-true "behind the music" format in quite some time.

Winterfylleth: The Threnody of Triumph

Thu, September 20 2012 5:27am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The state of British black metal has always been a bit of a sore spot for folks across the pond.

Approaching The Unfamiliar: Stewart Lee On John Cage's Indeterminacy

Fri, September 14 2012 11:41am - Source: The Quietus

In 1959, John Cage released an album on the Folkways label called Indeterminacy.

RT Contest! Win a copy of Dry the River’s Shallow Bed

Tue, September 04 2012 10:20pm - Source: The Panic Manual

English folk rock band Dry the River has been on the radar for indie music fans since they formed in 2009, and they've been broadening their audience extensively over the past four years, hitting the festival lineup especially hard this past summer.

ARE METAL VOCALISTS IRRELEVANT? THE OCEAN’S ROBIN STAPS AND IKILLYA’S JASON LEKBERG RESPOND

Tue, September 04 2012 7:43pm - Source: Metal Sucks

My recent op-ed piece which claimed that metal vocalists have become irrelevant has generated quite a bit of discussion.

Racist Rock: An Overview of White Supremacy In Punk and Metal

Mon, August 20 2012 6:02pm - Source: Noisecreep

In the wake of the recent massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, many media sources have taken shooter Wade Page 's association with the underground white-supremacist music scene and blown it up to sensationalist proportions.

FESTIVAL REPORT: Bloodstock

Fri, August 17 2012 4:43pm - Source: The Quietus

As ever in 2012 the great British summer turned out to be a great British disappointment, leaving most with nothing but grim resignation to the fact that almost every time they opened their curtains of a morning they would be met with a low hanging, hazy bank of grey misery that used to be the sky.

Michael Bialas: Fine Folks, Part I: Kathleen Edwards Keeps Moving On

Thu, August 09 2012 6:47pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

The cool Canadian also called Kitty, who teased us on the opening song of her fourth and most recent album Voyageur , is too pragmatic to leave the romantically hopeful "I'm moving to America" notion without an acerbic tagline: "It's an empty threat."

DoubleCrossXX.com: a Chat With Site Founders Tim McMahon and Brian 'Gordo' Jordan

Thu, July 19 2012 2:09pm - Source: Noisecreep

If you consider yourself a fan of hardcore, then you must be aware of the web presence, DoubleCrossXX.com. Founded in 2008 by Tim McMahon (vocalist for such noted Straight Edge bands as Mouthpiece and Hands Tied ) and Brian 'Gordo' Jordan, the site is a treasure trove virtually bursting at the seams with in-depth interviews, action packed photos and hardcore ephemera both past and present.

Slut Rock? Louise Brown On Using Sexuality & Gender In Metal

Mon, July 02 2012 3:40pm - Source: The Quietus

The metal scene loves to categorise itself.

Gallows Sign to Bridge Nine

Fri, June 29 2012 2:07am - Source: ArtistDirect

The UK's Gallows is a band that needs little introduction.

“Brit Wits” uses rock ‘n’ roll to document the history of British humor

Thu, May 31 2012 1:24pm - Source: Rock Star Journalist

A History of British Rock Humor , is a bit of a change.

Cohen’s “Playing to the Camera” documents the evolution of filmed musical performance

Tue, May 29 2012 1:17pm - Source: Rock Star Journalist

Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema analyzes the way documentary footage treats the musical performance, and goes far deeper into the subject matter than most contemporary musical studies.

Mutilation Rites: Empyrean

Thu, May 24 2012 5:34am - Source: Pitchfork Media

"I'm not a poet. What I write about is very personal, and it's almost entirely about depression, vices, suicide, substance abuse."

Show No Mercy: The Outsiders

Fri, May 04 2012 5:19am - Source: Pitchfork Media

Chapel Hill songwriter Jenks Miller-- the only consistent member of Horseback -- is linked to black metal because of the harsh vocals he uses in the project.

John Cusack on Channeling Edgar Allen Poe in 'The Raven'

Fri, April 27 2012 8:56pm - Source: Rolling Stone

In his 1980s romantic comedies, John Cusack always wore his heart on his sleeve – but it's hard to imagine any of those fresh-faced underdog characters carving up said heart onscreen and feeding it to a raccoon.

New music: Marina and the Diamonds – Starring Role (Acoustic)

Mon, April 23 2012 3:46pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Two years since the release of her debut album The Family Jewels (and a year since she described it as a "failure"), Welsh singer Marina Diamandis is about to release her second album, Electra Heart.

Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' – an in-depth Q&A from the vaults

Tue, April 03 2012 4:39pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

In an interview about two years ago you looked back to childhood and conjectured as to why you didn't "swim with all the other fish" at school and elsewhere.

Mirroring – Foreign Body

Thu, March 29 2012 6:54am - Source: The Four Oh Five

Collaborations are funny beasts to deal with.

Singles Round Up - March 19th

Mon, March 19 2012 5:32pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

It's increasingly difficult for new musicians to escape the weight of the past.

SXSW '12: Jack Black Talks Musical Aspects Of 'Frank Of Francis' & Says Charlie Kaufman's Film Has "A Powerfully Surrealistic Tone"

Thu, March 15 2012 2:07pm - Source: The Playlist

After high-profile roles in commercial fare such as " School Of Rock ," " Nacho Libre " and " The Big Year ," Jack Black has tapped into a series of smaller and more idiosyncratic opportunities, starting with Richard Linklater 's true-crime dramedy " Bernie."

Eric Larnick: 'WWE Raw' Recap: Musical Showdown With The Rock

Tue, March 13 2012 3:37pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

The big showdown from the Mar. 12 Raw, live in Cleveland, Ohio is a musical battle between John Cena and the Rock. We're two weeks away from " WrestleMania 28 " on Sun., April 1.

Her Version Of Events: Emeli Sandé Interviewed

Wed, February 08 2012 12:45pm - Source: The Quietus

Pop renaissance woman, Emeli Sandé seemed to appear fully formed out of nowhere in 2010 adding her luxuriously soulful vocals to big hits by Chipmunk and Wiley.

Best of 2011 - one persons list

Sat, January 21 2012 2:29am - Source: MOG

So once someone put forth the idea for a best of 2011 list I asked for some help.

Lana Del Rey: A beguiling beauty who's more than a one-hit wonder

Fri, January 20 2012 12:25am - Source: The Independent - Music

Since her beguiling breakout single, "Video Games", swept across the internet late last summer, followed more recently by the almost but not quite as mesmerising "Born to Die", Del Rey has endured levels of discussion and dissection that any other artist might expect after shifting several million albums, unmasking themselves as a Nazi fetishist and being found to have a ton of cocaine in their garage.

“The Other Side” – Review Of The Roots’ undun

Thu, December 22 2011 2:19am - Source: The Smocking Section

The artwork for The Roots' thirteenth studio album undun depicts a child completely inverted, mid-air, after springing up from a frayed, dirty and potentially dangerous, mattress.

Futuremania: Retro Goes Cold Turkey In 2011

Tue, December 20 2011 9:13am - Source: The Quietus

"In the early '70s there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you're lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality. And there are more albums released each week now than there were then."

LIVE REVIEWS: RITES OF DARKNESS III

Mon, December 19 2011 3:09pm - Source: crustcake

The most amazing thing about last weekend's Rites of Darkness III festival in San Antonio was that it actually happened.

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