Big-box retailer Best Buy has purchased online music store Napster for the hefty pricetag of 121 million dollars. Source: Punknews
Big-box retailer Best Buy has purchased online music store Napster for the hefty pricetag of 121 million dollars.
Source: Punknews
Activision has released the entire track listing for the latest installment of the Guitar Hero franchise, Guitar Hero: World Tour. The game features eighty-six songs on disc, all of which are master recordings. Notables includes: At the Drive-In, Beastie Boys, Billy Idol, Blink 182, Coldplay, Dinosaur Jr., Foo Fighters, Interpol, … Read more
Street Dogs vocalist Mike McColgan will sing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium on September 2nd just a few days prior to the band's kickoff of their headlining tour with Time Again and Flatfoot 56. The band continues to tour in support of State of Grace, out now via Hellcat … Read more
Popular online mix-tape sharing website Muxtape has temporarily closed down. The site's main page now boasts a single line, "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA." Read more
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Hip-hop MC Nas will join members of ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org on Wednesday to deliver 620,127 petition signatures demanding that FOX end its pattern of racist attacks against presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The petition stems from a string of incidents airing on FOX News channels that many … Read more
Vans will release a Bad Brains themed line of shoes and clothing in 2009. Pictures of the collection can be viewed online here. Bad Brains released their latest full-length, Build a Nation, last year. Source: Punknews Read more
Rock the Vote and Myspace have teamed up for the DemROCKracy band competition, in which bands are competing to register the most voters before August 15. The grand prize winner will have the chance to open up at Rock the Vote's Ballot Bash 2008 in Denver, CO; other bands will … Read more
The gravestone of Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis was stolen from Macclesfield Cemetery, where he is buried. According to officials, the stone was stolen between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning; officials are looking to the public for help in returning the memorial stone. Source: BBC News Read more
MTV Press will be releasing Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music on October 7th. The book features 224 pages of visual documentation of the American hardcore movement (Black Flag, Big Boys, Rites of Spring, Agnostic Front, and more) that was authored by Nathan Nedorostek and Anthony … Read more
Hot Topic will launch its own online digital music site in August titled Shockhound. The site will feature a digital music store from music of all genres as well as band merchandise, interviews, and other exclusive features. Read more
iTunes has reached the five billion songs downloaded milestone. Read more
A July 8th release has been set for the Joe Strummer (John Graham Mellor) documentary DVD titled The Future is Unwritten. The biopic was directed by Julian Temple and features an overview of Strummer's entire life as narrated by Strummer himself from his BBC radio show. The film also includes … Read more
Microsoft has introduced a limited edition Joy Division themed version of their Zune. The limited digital media player was released to commemorate the DVD release of Joy Division, the critically acclaimed documentary. The film will come pre-loaded on a custom black Zune 80 player that is etched with an adaptation … Read more
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain may no longer be with us, but he's still making the news. The ashes of Cobain, which were held in his wife's - Courtney Love - possession, were recently stolen from Love's California home. While some of his remains were scattered in a Buddhist temple in … Read more
What We Do is Secret, the long-in-the-works biopic about The Germs is due for screenings across the U.S. this Summer. The picture was co-written and directed by Rodger Grossman, who spent ten years trying to get the movie made before gaining the approval of the estate of late Germs frontman … Read more
Death Cab for Cutie have taken over music blog Stereogum for the day. You can check out what they've considered newsworthy at their site. Read more
Former Ramones drummer Richie Ramone - Richard Reinhardt - had his lawsuit against Apple, RealNetworks, and Wal-Mart over digital sales of Ramones songs dismissed by a federal judge in New York. Reinhardt played on three full-length releases from 1984-1987 and wrote six songs which were the basis for the lawsuit: … Read more
Two separate, but equally entertaining stories for you here involving a couple of punk bands starting "near riots" at recent performances. First up, Fucked Up was politely asked to leave after causing riot-like conditions at a festival performance at SUNY Purchase over the weekend. The band attempted to perform their … Read more
The Smashing Pumpkins have filed a lawsuit against their label, Virgin Records, claiming the label illegally used the band's name and music in promotional deals that hurt the band's credibility with fans. The band filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit on March 24th in Los Angeles Superior Court. The band's lawsuit stems … Read more
Converse is celebrating their 100th anniversary by releasing signature shoes inspired by Kurt Cobain and sanctioned by the Cobain estate. The shoes will be adored with lyrics and drawings taken from Cobain's personal journals. The shoes are expected to retail for between $50 and $65 in May. Pictures of the … Read more
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