Today’s the 60th anniversary of NATO, the North American Treaty Organization. While in recent years it’s become an alliance based mostly on securing stability and natural resources for the members states, during it’s Cold War peak it served as the barrier between two starkly opposed worlds. The Soviet Union and the countries of western Europe [...]
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Neil Young Laid Off His Director
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Neil Young’s next LP is called Fork in the Road - which looks like a concept record focused around electric cars. And as out there as that sounds, Neil Young’s done upwards of thirty solo records, so hey, he just might know what he’s doing. The song, Get Around, is solid work, but I was [...]
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Interview With Brazil’s Jonathon Newby
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When you’re talking about a group like Brazil, it’s very easy to lose sight of the big picture - there’s such a barrage of sonic and lyrical references that go into their music that you almost have to feel it out when explaining them to someone else, section by section, like a blind man [...]
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Kasabian Release New Single, Should Have Collborated With Captain Cabinets
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Even though they picked out the wrong member of The Boosh to team up with for their video, Kasabian's earning points for releasing their next single, Vlad The Impaler, for absolutely nothing. First you can check out the video on YouTube, then you can sign up on Kasabian's website to get it sent to you. [...]
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The Millenium - Begin
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Creative control is a buzzword that gets a lot of love from artists, but let’s be honest - creative freedom is not for everyone. You might enjoy a suspenseful, cleverly told story in the theatres, but once you bring in the Extended Directors Cut on DVD with added special effects and an extra half an [...]
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Will The Next.fm Please Stand Up?
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Last.fm recently announced that users from countries that aren’t the USA, UK, or Germany will be required to purchase a paid subscription account to use Last.fm’s streaming radio service - while the cries of Internet Racism have been funny (note to Canada, France and the rest of the third world : ad revenue from the [...]
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A Chat With Nigel Pulsford.
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Bush was a criminally underrated band, and while we won’t go to drastic lengths to defend Gavin Rossdale streaking down the streets shirtless for music videos at the age of 40, we will stand by the tunes that held together four great records and a tolerable remix album - and Nigel Pulsford’s skill on guitar [...]
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God Is Dead, And Twitter Killed Him.
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A few days ago I stumbled across a yahoo headline that literally read: “John Mayer twitters: This Heart Didn’t Come With Instructions” with a picture of him and Jennifer “Hey Shut Up, Angelina Jolie Is Hotter Than You, Too” Aniston on the inside. We HAVE to stop this thing. We have to. It’s getting absurd. [...]
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A Couple Of Encouraging Signs.
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The only time MTV got it wrong in guessing what the public would get crazy about -Wait, rephrase.The only time MTV couldn’t sell a trend to the American public before Napster came out and ruined everything for them was the electronica “craze” in the late 90’s. Chemical Brothers and Prodigy and Basement Jazz got a [...]
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Calmly Explain To Me Why Blink-182 Is Reuniting?
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Is there a deep gaping void in modern music scene that only they can repair? Is there a mass of people out there crying for new Blink material? Are there kids who never got a chance to see Blink-182 live who had cool older siblings who introduced them to these influential juggernauts of modern sound, [...]
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This is huge. We’re talking Jesus Vs. Sylar huge.
Actually, it’s more like if Jesus and Sylar started blogs, and then linked to each other, sooo maybe a bad metaphor. Anyway, we’ve been looking to expand for a while - so after some back and forth I’m glad to announce that A Future In Noise has agreed to sponsor our board. It’s more [...]
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AFIN Mini-Shop Launch / Sponsorship of Stereo Zeitgeist!
Just because I think Zazzle is really cool and I wanted a chance for our readers to obtain A Future in Noise swag if they so chose, I have launched the…:A Future in Noise Mini-Shop…which currently has a few varieties of t-shirts, postcards, and mouse-pads, hopefully with some more nifty items to come about in [...]
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Breaking: Whatever Thin Facade Of Relevance The Smashing Pumpkins Had
I usually don’t do hot off the presses stuff, but I know yall love all that 90’s alternative and hold out a lot of hope for these guys who more or less introduced us to all the good stuff we enjoy today. But this just happened, and it’s a pretty devastating blow:“The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, [...]
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Breaking: Whatever Thin Facade Of Relevance The Smashing Pumpkins Had.
I usually don’t do hot off the presses stuff, but I know yall love all that 90’s alternative and hold out a lot of hope for these guys who more or less introduced us to all the good stuff we enjoy today. But this just happened, and it’s a pretty devastating blow:“The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, [...]
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Here's a load of MBV rarities!!!
I’ve been a huge fan of My Bloody Valentine for at least three years now. They are one of the most unique, transcendent, beautiful bands ever to enter a recording studio. And they only got round to releasing two albums, 1988’s Isn’t Anything and 1991’s Loveless, before essentially vanishing right at the cusp of stardom. [...]
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Era Vulgaris: Literary Thought In Rock
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Before we start talking about T.S. Eliot-Odi profanum volgus et arceo -I hate the vulgar crowd, and keep them away:grant me your silence. A priest of the Muses,I sing a song never heard before,for young women and boys.The poet Horace adopted shades of Homer’s style and rhetoric as he laid down his third books of [...]
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You’re Breaking The Fourth Wall!
Yeah, the blog gods tell you not to do stuff like this while you write, but it’s my website (mostly) and so I’ll do what I like. There are also those who would insist that you, Gentle Reader, are more interested in my thoughts on music than my thoughts on the medium. But those people [...]
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How To Crush Chris Cornell’s Self Esteem In 145 Characters Or Less.
“You know that feeling you get when somebody embarrasses themselves so badly YOU feel uncomfortable? Heard Chris Cornell’s record? Jesus.”- Trent Reznor
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Ten Interesting Bands Playing SXSW.
About a billion bands flood into Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest festival every year - and with that whole “everyone who’s anyone will be there” thing, who can blame them? There’s so much volume going through SXSW every year that it’s hard to pick out what’s worth seeing. Even though there’s no way [...]
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A Brief Guide To Musicians On Twitter.
Between MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, ReverbNation, Soundclick, and Last.fm, it seems unfathomable that music fans would have any more time to think about, let alone discuss, music on the internet, but Twitter has been taking the internet by storm the last few months, following users away from the computer and bringing notes and updates directly to [...]
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