Pete de Freitas

If I was a little disappointed at the failure to really capitalize on the orchestra's presence and take the tunes into orbit (there's a lovely, churning bolero hidden inside " Nocturnal Me " just aching to be foregrounded and extended -- and I would have died fulfilled if they had included their most string-dependent, non- Ocean Rain work, " Never Stop "), the total outcome was riveting. Read More

Over ten years ago Bill Drummond summed up Echo and the Bunnymen's career as "Lies, deceit, hatred, hotel floors, cocaine dealers, transit vans, acid trips, broken amplifiers, American girls, service stations, loss of innocence, corrupt road crews, missed opportunities, vanity, broken promises, shit gigs, bad sex, crap mixes, late VAT returns, petulance, incompetence, petty rivalry and Pete de Freitas dying." Read More

The Blueprint 3 is just hitting stores next week (on September 11), but Jay-Z says he's already working on his next album, which will be his most eclectic one yet. Read More