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  • Sleater-Kinney Box Set 'Start Together' To Be Released Oct. 21

    It was announced today that legendary punk trio Sleater-Kinney will be reissuing all of their studio albums in a limited edition vinyl box set, titled Start Together. The box set will include newly remastered versions of all seven Sleater-Kinney albums on colored vinyl, as well as a hardcover book of previously unreleased photos. Start Together will be released on Oct. 21 through Sub Pop and is available for pre-order, though the reissues are available digitally right now.

  • 8 Band Names Inspired By Other Artist's Names: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, And More

    Coming up with a bandname is one of the most important and difficult steps of forming a band. While some artists like to take their names from a song by another artist, such as Radiohead (A Talking Heads song) or Pretty Girls Make Graves (a Smiths song), other artists have found inspiration in the actual names of other artists. Here are eight band names that were inspired by the names of other artists.

  • 6 Artists Who Debuted With Double Albums: Chicago, Frank Zappa, And More

    Double albums are often seen as exercises in self-indulgence, so the only time an artist can usually get away with releasing one is well into their career, such as the Beatles' "White Album" or Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. However, there have been some artists who where so confident in themselves that they chose to release double albums right off the bat. Here are six artists who debuted with double albums.

  • 7 Casting Suggestions For The Ramones Movie

    Earlier this week, it was announced that Martin Scorsese would be directing a biopic about punk legends the Ramones, which is set for release in 2016. Here are some people who I think should play the movie's lead roles.

  • 7 Child Actors Who Turned To Music: Drake, Jenny Lewis, And More

    Though there are some good examples of child actors who continued to have successful careers into their adulthood, such as Jodie Foster or Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a great number of them end up fizzling out. That's probably why these seven actors turned to music once they reached adulthood.

  • Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe': 11 Songs Ranked For Its 20th Anniversary

    Today, Aug. 29, marks the 20th anniversary of Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe, and though it wasn't the first album of the Britpop movement, it did become one of its defining documents. The album would become the fastest selling debut of all time in the UK (a record later broken by Elastica and then Arctic Monkeys), and in celebration of its 20th birthday, here are the album's 11 songs ranked, from worst to best.

  • Morrissey's 6 Meanest Quotes Ever

    In a statement posted to his website yesterday, former Smiths singer Morrissey dismissed the suicide of Robin Williams, lamenting the fact that it overshadowed the passing of actress Lauren Bacall. Of course, this sentiment was completely rude and unnecessary, but it should come as no surprise to anyone who's been following Morrissey in the media over the last 30 years. Here are six of Morrissey's meanest quotes.

  • Arcade Fire, Bon Iver To Play Basketball For Charity In Montreal

    If there's anything that Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler loves more than music, it's basketball (and since he's about nine feet tall, he's pretty good at it, too). Over the last few years, Butler has hosted the annual Pop vs. Jock basketball game in Montreal, in which musicians play against college basketball players for charity. Exclaim reports that this year's Pop vs. Jock game will take place on Sept. 20 during the Pop Montreal festival, and in addition to Butler and his brother Will, some of the other participating musicians include Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture.

  • Kanye West Nearly Had David Lynch Direct One Of His Videos

    Kanye West's Yeezus was easily one of the darkest and most challenging albums to ever come from a major label, so who better to direct one of the album's music videos than the master of surreal nightmares, David Lynch? Apparently, this dream collaboration nearly happened, as Lynch revealed in an interview with The Daily Beast.

  • Bruce Springsteen's 'Outlaw Pete' Inspires Children's Book

    Bruce Springsteen has sung about hundreds of great characters in his songs throughout the years, and some of them have even inspired works of film (see: Sean Penn's 1991 directorial debut The Indian Runner, which was based on Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman"). Now, one of Springsteen's songs has inspired, of all things, a children's book.

  • Sting Offering Chance To Work On His Italian Farm, For A Fee

    How many of you have ever dreamed of working on a farm in the Italian countryside? Well, you're in luck (assuming you said yes to that question), because Sting wants to make your dreams come true. According to Telegraph, the former Police frontman is offering tourists the chance to pick grapes and olives from his estate in Tuscany, and all they have to do is pay him €262, or roughly $345.

  • U.S. Open: LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy Is Making Music From Tennis Data [WATCH]

    DJ, producer, and electronic music wizard James Murphy hasn't released any original music since he disbanded his beloved dance act LCD Soundsystem back in 2011 (with the exception of the Converse-commissioned Gorillaz/Andre 3000 collaborative single "DoYaThing" in 2012), but his new project comes pretty close. As reported by Self-Titled, Murphy is currently working with IBM developer Patrick Gunderson on the U.S. Open Sessions project, in which raw data gathered from tennis matches at the U.S. Open is being turned into algorithms to create musical compositions.

  • Weezer Teases Best Coast Collaboration 'Go Away' [LISTEN]

    Continuing the lengthy hype-build for their upcoming album Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Weezer has shared a teaser of their collaboration with Best Coast's Bethany Costentino, titled "Go Away," which you can check out below.

  • Suge Knight Released From Hospital Just Three Days After Being Shot Six Times

    Though it was only Sunday morning that Suge Knight was shot six times at a West Hollywood nightclub, the former Death Row Records CEO has already been released from the hospital. TMZ reports that early yesterday morning, Aug. 27, Knight left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after being treated for three days, with his doctors claiming that he won't even need any rehab. I'm pretty sure the only person to ever handle a gunshot wound better than Suge Knight is Werner Herzog.

  • Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Is Getting A Sitcom On Fox

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo will be the subject of a new sitcom on Fox, titled DeTour. The pilot script will be written by Psych creator Steve Franks, and is inspired by Cuomo's experiences attending Harvard following Weezer's mid-90s commercial breakthrough.

  • Grimes Shares 'Go' Music Video, Inspired By 'Dante's Inferno' [WATCH]

    Canadian synth-pop artist Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, has shared the music video for her new single "Go," which you can check out below. Directed by Boucher and her brother Mac, the video features Boucher dancing in a few bizarre locations, including the desert and what looks like some sort of nightmarish dance club, and was apparently inspired by Dante's Inferno, according to a statement shared with Pitchfork.

  • Killers Frontman Brandon Flowers Confirms New Solo Album

    In an interview with NME, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers shares some new details about his upcoming solo album, which would be his second overall and his first since 2010's Flamingo. The album is expected to be released some time in 2015.

  • Morrissey Disses Robin Williams During Tribute To Lauren Bacall

    Never one to refrain from saying something incredibly offensive, Morrissey took some time out of his otherwise touching tribute to the late Richard Attenborough and Lauren Bacall to criticize the media's focus on Robin Williams' suicide. In a post made to his website True To You yesterday, Morrissey expressed some disappointment that Bacall's death on Aug. 12 was overshadowed by Williams' death the day before.
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