The Modern Age

This just in from my friend at Abeano Music–Jack White stepped out to play a few bars during The Last Shadow Puppets’ set at Glastonbury. What did he guest on? A cover of Billy Fury’s “Wondrous Place.”
Video:

Notice how Jack just casual (and quietly) slumps off stage…like he was never there at all.
Writes NME.com, “Miles Kane [...]

As of tonight I have a lot in common with the Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash, the Klaxons, and Facebook. We are all 2008 Shockwave NME Award WINNERS! Muwahahah.

YOUR VOTING was the key in helping this lil’ ol’ blog win a 2008 Shockwave NME Award for Best Music Blog.
I would like to thank YOU, the [...]

According to the Associated Press, “independent record labels behind artists like The White Stripes (on British label The Beggars Group), Deep Purple and Arctic Monkeys announced a global deal Saturday to pool access to their catalogs, seeking to grab a bigger share of online music sales from the major record companies.”
The companies have signed up [...]

Ok, so here it goes. I’ve put on my armor. I’m ready for your biggest and best pot shots…
The point of this list is to single out the albums *I* enjoyed the most this year–this is not a list of what is cool in any way possible. It’s not an indication of what was the [...]

Do your clicking on Monday evening after 9PM GMT for details on a special surprise…

To all bassists: consider yourself warned. From ArcticMonkeys.com:
19.06.06
Andy Nicholson
We are sad to tell everyone that Andy is no longer with the band.
Nick O’Malley, who stood in for Andy while he was absent from the recent tour of North America, shall carry on playing bass for the remaining shows this summer.
We have been mates with Andy [...]

You heard it here first, Arctic Monkeys SO want to be Panic! at the Disco. Ok, they can’t commit to actually parting ways with their bassist, Andy Nicholson, aka-the one on the left who is always wearing a jacket and a polo shirt, but he is too “fatigued” to join the band on their North [...]

Have you seen the lineup for this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading Festival? I nearly cried when I took a look:
Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, Belle & Sebastian, Fall Out Boy, The Subways, Panic! at the Disco, Muse, Arctic Monkeys, The Streets, Dirty Pretty Things, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Futureheads, The Cribs, Wolfmother, Placebo, My Chemical Romance, [...]

Yup, I said it…I used the term “Peengate” while talking about Fall Out Boy on Jo Whiley’s show Tuesday morning. You can listen to the broadcast over at the Radio 1 site. Click on “Tuesday” and you should hear me talking about dodgeball, bling rings, Arctic Monkeys, and “Peengate” an hour and 40 minutes into [...]

Arctic Monkeys at Webster Hall in NYC. The set was short and sweet. The crowd was shouting out songs the entire set–most notably the people holding up the sign that said “Love Machine” (cover of Girls Aloud that they did on Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge) and the girl next to me screaming out “Love Machine, [...]