Our good friends over at Pastepunk have made their best of 2007 lists available. You can check those out here. The SPB lists will be posted in the near future... we promise.
Xiu Xiu and Fucked Up have launched a class action lawsuit against Rolling Stone Magazine, R.J. Reynolds Tabacco Company (operating company of Camel Cigarettes), and Wenner Media (publisher of Rolling Stone). The lawsuit stems from the 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone in which the two artists (among 186 others) … Read more
The 50th Annual Grammy Award Nominee List has been announced. Those of note include: Foo Fighters - “Pretender” (Record of the Year) Foo Fighters - “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace” (Album of the Year) Kanye West - “Graduation” (Album of the Year) Feist (Best New Artist) Feist - “1234” (Best … Read more
Henry Rollins announced that he wll be embarking on another spoken word tour come Feburary. This tour will last between four and five weeks and hit both the U.S. and Canada. Rollins also revealed that he is working on a new book of journal entries entitled A Preferred Blur for … Read more
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Hip-hop MC Saigon posted a lengthy tirade on his Myspace page stating that he is quitting the business. Saigon's highly anticipated major label debut album, The Greatest Story Never Told, has been consistently pushed back with no official release date currently set. To read Saigon's full statement, click "read more." … Read more
A contest to record the best Bob Dylan cover has been set up in conjunction with the film/soundtrack of I'm Not There. All the info and the prizes (which includes lots of money and some cool collectibles) can be found here. Read more
The nominees for the 2008 PLUG Independent Music Awards have been announced. You can cast your votes here. Read more
Ryan McKenny of Trap Them has announced that he will be releasing a limited edition handwritten book entitled Failgivers. The book is volume one of the project and will be an eighty-page, handwritten, canvas bound hardcover book. The book will be limited to 100 copies. More information can be found … Read more
Another peer-to-peer file-sharing group has been shut down, this time Demonoid joins the ranks of Oink. The popular group posted the following statement on their website: The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry … Read more
Wired Magazine did a write-up on the rise of vinyl records sales and how it correlates to the decline of CD sales. You can read the article online here. Read more
Earache Records recently conducted an interview with At the Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg. You can read the interview, which concentrates on next year's reunion shows, online here. Read more
Megawords Magazine conducted a two-part interview with Wes Eisold recently, which you can read online here. The interview delves into what Eisold has been up to lately, including his work with The Heartworm project. Read more
Rapper Saul Williams has teamed up with producer Trent Reznor - of Nine Inch Nails - for his new full-length, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. The album will see its release in a similar fashion to that of Radiohead's In Rainbows. The album will be available on … Read more
Oink, the members-only download site for file-sharing music, has been shut down by British and Dutch authorities. The owner, a twenty-four-year-old man, was arrested in the town of Middlesbrough. Last week, Dutch authorities siezed the site's servers, which were housed in Amsterdam. You can read the full story on the … Read more
Scissorfight vocalist Ironlung will be taking part in an art showing on October 20th. The event, Circus Maximus Group Show, takes places at 7:00 PM at Vixen in Provincetown, MA. In other news, Ironlung has begun work on a solo project dubbed Dead Whale. He is currently recording his debut … Read more
Isis guitarist/vocalist and Hydra Head Records co-owner Aaron Turner has started his own blog. You can check that out here. Read more
Today is the day, October 10th, the day of the digital release of Radiohead's new full-length, In Rainbows. As previously announced, the band released their new album digitally to those that ordered the album. Initial response to the album has been very positive. Be on the lookout for Scene Point … Read more
A DVD chronicling Mike Patton and John Kaada's live collaboration at 2005's Rosklide Festival in Denmark will be released by Ipecac Recordings on November 20th. The DVD, titled Live, will feature the entire performance as well as rehearsal footage and a photo archive. Patton and Kaada previously worked together on … Read more
Spin Magazine and Music Nation are teaming up for The Hot Pursuit, a contest that looks to discover tomorrow's best kept musical secret. The winning artist will be selected by an esteemed judges panel of Perry Farrell, Tim Kasher, and Spin editor Doug Brod. Interested artists can sign up and … Read more
Here's an interesting note passed along by Morrissey's publicist that you'll likely to see plastered across the Internet everywhere you look. Morrissey was approached with a lucrative offer to tour under The Smiths moniker - so long as guitarist Johnny Marr was involved - in 2008 and/or 2009. What kind … Read more
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