Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Damon Albarn was tired of fronting BLUR when he decided to focus on other projects, according to his GORILLAZ partner Jamie Hewlett.Speaking to the Observer, ...
Music Snobbery (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Reunions tours are the new festival tours in 2008. The Verve reunion shows have been a great success. I shelled out the $60+ for the first My Bloody Valentine show at Roseland even though that venue makes me want to...
No Good for Me (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
You could say that the whole phenomenon of blogging is about cataloging your obsessions, but I guess we're making it official. Here's what's been taking up our brain space this week. All things Malibu Lemon Blossom-scented from Pacifica I had...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
What do you come out with? A BArch or a DipArch. Before that you will have clocked up a BA or BSc.Why do it? Because it's creative as well as academic, combining the artistic with the functional. Some students fancy the idea of the architect as a hero, as in Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead about a god-like Frank Lloyd Wright. Parents like it because it sounds vocational. But not all students stay...
prefix (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Is the writer's strike effecting British television as well? Because once you read this news, you'll think that TV execs across the pond are as hard up for ideas as their counterparts over here. BBC programmers are hoping to talk some of '90s Brit-rock's biggest names into duking things out on a special edition of The Weakest Link. (Apparently that game show didn't flame out in Britain like it did...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
This is barely news. I'm just warning you in advance. This is one of those articles that is, on the surface, so unlike music news that you'll think 'why the hell is he tellin' us this crap?' Well, basically, it's...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
We suspect there's no real plan to produce a Britpop Special edition of The Weakest Link beyond a vague idea and a Daily Star gossip columnist , but let's play along. Naturally, the big idea is to refight Blur versus Oasis - yet again - this time as quiz; beyond Albarn and one of the Gallaghers: [o]ther stars that bosses want to have on the show include Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Elastica's Justine Frischmann,...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
Oasis and Blur are reportedly being lined up for a Britpop special of The Weakest Link.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 01/17/2008
BRITPOP rivals Oasis and Blur are set to go head to head again in a sensational telly special.
