Posted by admin on Jul 7, 2009 The Deftones have gone back to square one on work-in-progress album, Eros. The band has scrapped the songs completed with founding bassist Cheng, who is still in hospital following a horrific car accident last November, releasing a statement saying, “As we neared completion on ‘Eros’, we realized that this record doesn’t best encompass and represent who we...

Posted by admin on Jul 6, 2009 Incubus‘s last album was three years ago and there was the suggestion that this compilation was a contractual obligation to draw a line under their career. If that didn’t augur well for this retrospective, their ignoring two of their six albums here may raise a few eyebrows. There is nothing from 1995′s Fungus Amongus (not surprisingly, since Incubus seems to...

Posted by admin on Jul 4, 2009 A lot has been written and said about Michael Jackson since his untimely death at 50 years of age of Friday June 26th, the mainstream media covering the singer’s career and life from top to bottom. Acknowledgement of his music and industry achievements (750 million records worldwide, 13 #1 singles, 13 Grammy Awards) has been well documented, as has his impact on collective...

Posted by admin on Jun 24, 2009 Splendour has unveiled its complete line-up for it’s sold-out July 25 and 26 dates: Happy Mondays (really, did we learn nothing from the Big Day Out in 2001?), Doves, Architecture in Helsinki, You Am I, The Beautiful Girls, Downsyde & Drapht, Kisschassy, Little Red, Bluejuice, Children Collide, Miami Horror, Art vs Science, Paul Dempsey, Dappled Cities, Dananananaykroyd,...

Posted by admin on Jun 23, 2009 Dirty Projectors are the kind of band you’d describe as an enigma, where attempting to make ‘sounds like’ comparisons draws blanks. Made up of compositional master Dave Longstreth and female vocalists Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian, their previous record was a ‘re-imagining’ of Black Flag‘s album Damaged. Bitte Orca however sees the band...