Tuesday, July 3rd 2012
News: Daily Headlines
Grohl Gets 900 Pound Sticks, Andre 3000 Covers Everyone (Except Hendrix) & More
The Rolling Stones recruited Shephard Fairey to update their iconic lips & tongue logo.
Dave Grohl‘s hometown is honoring him with a set of 900-pound drumsticks. Ladies, get your minds out of the gutter. He’s not going to use them for that.
Oh, and speaking of Dave Grohl, Ben Johnson wrote a brilliant, devilish piece for Vice about how AIDS caused Grunge.
Louis C.K.‘s DIY tour offers a new model for bands to tour on, but it won’t work for everyone.
In the new Jimi Hendrix biopic, Andre 3000 will cover pretty much every song ever written – but none by Hendrix.
Smashing Pumpkins are reissuing their Pisces Iscariot album, with all kinds of bells and whistles.
Some brilliant asshole has rigged a contest to send Pitbull into exile in a WalMart in a remote Alaskan town.
Here’s ten new metal albums you should throw up some horns for this month.
Two new Blur songs, bitches! Whoo Hoo!
Nas‘ ex-wife is probably going to be 50 shades of pissed the fuck off when his new album arrives.
Remember miss Fucks For Tracks aka Joss Stone? She covered Broken Bells.
America’s first black president plays M83 on the saxophone.
Learn about the new Killers song without actually listening to it.
Kiss have a new album and a new song is out to hype it with. Check it out.
The Roots have a new album on the way.
El-P talks file-sharing and artist/fan relationships. A solid read.
Santigold‘s new video has arrived. The mailman gets fucked up in a drive-by, the video is too dark and that blonde wig is creepy as hell. Maybe you shouldn’t watch that one.
Computers are now writing classical orchestra compositions. No, not Skrillex, an actual fucking computer. The words “epic” and “it went nowhere” were used, in the same paragraph, to describe the sound.
