It’s commonplace for music fans to complain about festival lineups, since not all festivals can have a perfect lineup. But this is ridiculous – attendees of this year’s Coachella, which officially kicks off the festival season in the US in April, have kicked up a storm over the scheduling of The Killers on Saturday night [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Max
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Last week, the song Oasis by Amanda Palmer was banned by all major radio/TV stations (apart from the BBC) for “making light of rape, religion and abortion”. A couple of days after this was revealed to be the case, Palmer herself wrote a blog entry on her own site defending the song and stating why [...]
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Max
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This is the third time in the space of five and a half months that I’ve seen Amanda Palmer in concert. One half of the Dresden Dolls, she has been promoting her debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, to audiences across Europe and the USA. Last night, she kicked off her second European trek [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Max
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One of the reasons for the two-week hiatus was me thinking “oh well, only two weeks, what could possibly happen in the industry that is reportable?” As it turned out, quite a lot. The stuff that The Musical Chairs missed included: Warner Music Group took down all YouTube videos from their own label and all [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by Max
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Razorlight and Guns N’ Roses brought out similarly terrible albums. Slipway Fires by Razorlight is the final downward spiral for a band that four years ago had promise. Now they’re settled into the mundane surroundings Radio 2 with ease. Chinese Democracy took Guns N’ Roses took 17 years to make. That’s why it is the worst [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Max
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