Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Billy Idol has had quite an interesting career, the majority of which I am completely unfamiliar with. From his early days with Generation X to his solo heyday in the 1980's, to his fall from grace in the 1990's, he has been all over the place. Not to mention his near-death motorcycle accident. The man has shown incredible resiliency coming through it all with a sneer on his face and a fist in the...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Carbon/Silicon , the ongoing project from Mick Jones of The Clash , Big Audio Dynamite and Tony James of Generation X have posted their second album for free download. The band, first announced in 2004 , had become known for their open policy towards file sharing , making all recordings available freely online and encouraging bootlegging at live performances. The band has four songs available on their...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Carbon/Silicon (a band fronted by The Clash's Mick Jones and Generation X's Tony James) has a new album called The Carbon Bubble. They are giving it away in the MP3 format on their site. Carbon/Silicon's The Carbon Bubble album...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
"Carbon/Silicon, the band formed by Mick Jones of The Clash and Tony James of Generation X, will self-release The Carbon Bubble on Saturday, November 14th. The reason for the special weekend release date is that the album will be made...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Two weeks ago, Glee served up a fun-fest of musical numbers, but this week it’s all about Big Life Lessons — never has the stark black-on-white Glee logo looked so menacing! Somehow we didn’t sink under the weight — finally, the characters dealt with believable problems (a school’s reluctance to pay for handicap accessibility; the concrete problems that come with teen...
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
For a series that has achieved such great name recognition so quickly, Glee has still suffered from an identity problem, something that can easily happen when you've got three distinctive writers shaping the show. Ryan Murphy, who penned "Wheels," seems to have learned a bit from the success of recent episodes by Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and sees what we saw tonight as the tone for the...
inside am-lul's closet (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I am extremelly proud to present you my first collection: The Music Collection The past few months have been the most exciting ones of my life. From last minute details to a thousand interviews...It's has been a beautiful journey.Most of you (specially the spanish ones) already know what this is all about.But I felt I needed to share it with the rest of my international readers. The Music Collection...
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
"Love knows no bounds," or does it? Not all things can get the mash-up treatment, like Sisqo and My Fair Lady - but I bet somebody out there is working hard to prove otherwise to writer Ian Brennan. Speaking of Brennan, given his previous scripted eppy, "The Rhodes Not Taken," perhaps he should get a few more thrown his way. The concept of "Mash-up" is thought to be applied...
How books got their titles (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Coupland said that the title of his 1991 book was taken from a work of sociology by Paul Fussell called Class , in which ‘Category X’ was used to denote a voluntarily disenfranchised para-class who ‘wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence.’ Maybe so, but Coupland would have been hard put to ignore the fact...
thus spake drake (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Another week, another episode where we have to look the other way anytime Terri's ridiculous fake pregnancy is waved in our face. We're expected to believe that Will is that clueless? Thankfully, Jane Lynch's Sue makes it all go down so much easier. While it's generally overused, hearing "O Fortuna" repeatedly throughout the episode (as a theme for the Will/Sue conflict) tickled me nonetheless....
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Mick Jones of the The Clash is in the midst of a five week art project in London dubbed the The Rock n Roll Public Library . The exhibit will run every week through the 25th of August from Wednesday to Sunday at the Ladbroke Grove Underground in the British capital. The event is described as follows: The Rock n Roll Public Library is Mick Jones's (The Clash, B.A.D, Carbon Silicon) direct artistic challenge...
Baggage Reclaim (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
An exhaustive list of gigs at the infamous Middlesbrough Rock Garden has turned up . It's almost certainly the work of John "Blank Frank" Hodgson. Here's the section I remember - with the gigs I went to in bold- October 13th 1978 - Ultravox October 19th 1978 - The Lurkers/Nicky Beat and The Beatniks January 12th 1979 - Adam and The Ants/No Way January 26th 1979 - Disguise/Nicky Beat and The...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Billy Idol was almost tailor-made for the early years of MTV, but re-recording a slicked-up version of the best Generation X song certainly didn't hurt his solo career's take-off at all, either.
Punk Turns 30 (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Of all the lyrics Billy Idol was responsible for either writing or singing, the one that endeared him to many of my g-g-g-generation was "one hundred punks rule." Like Paul Weller, whose "In the City" hearkened back to Britain's first best musical invasion and teen sentiment, Generation X 's "100 Punks Rule" also elevated youthful sentiment and turned it into an anthem....
gwadzilla (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
generation x... before the institution of the word slacker... before billy idol solo watch the GenX stuff... look at the year prepare to have your mind blown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_(band) GOOGLE VIDEOS White Wedding... that was Billy Idol solo... look for Kiss Me Deadly or maybe I saw Billy Idol on the REBEL YELL tour... it was a good show but it was another case where I felt like...
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