Garden Tribute To George Harrison

Late Beatle George Harrison's widow Olivia has created a floral tribute for the legendary musician - by designing a garden in his honor for an English flower show. The garden will feature as part of England's Chelsea Flower Show,[...] Read more!

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Metallica Confirms New Album To Launch Online

Metallica are moving forward with plans to release their forthcoming album online - starting with the launch of material on their new website on Monday. The site, Mission: Metallica, will provide downloads of the band's latest material,[...] Read more!

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Radiohead Slam EMI

Radiohead have hit out at their former record company EMI, angry they can't stop the label from releasing an album of their greatest hits. EMI bosses made the decision after the band walked away from their contract to release their last album In Rainbows through new label XL Recordings.[...] Read more!

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John Michael Montgomery In Rehab

Country singer John Michael Montgomery has reportedly checked into a rehab treatment facility for substance abuse. The star has axed all concert dates and personal appearances for the next 30 days to voluntarily submit himself to the center to treat his severe anxiety attacks and sleep disorder,[...] Read more!

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New Cure - "The Only One"

When we told you the Cure were planning to release a single a month until the September release of their still-untitled 13th album, a commenter asked, "Does anyone care????" (give or take a ?). Well, the rest of the thread shows quite a few of you do. So then -- the first of four singles are out, though it might not sound too new if you're a big fan: We first heard "The Only One" last year when the band was in Mexico. There's the live take and then the one they put to tape in the studio, where you get a slightly clearer sense of Robert's sensual, lip-sucking and hips-loving sunniness.

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Toni Braxton Delays Las Vegas Stage Return

Toni Braxton's Las Vegas stage return has been delayed again after the singer canceled a string of shows last month due to a prolonged illness.[...] Read more!

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OldStand: SPIN, April 1992

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like.

A while back we excavated SPIN's 8th Anniversary Dando-fest; now, through the magic of the Oldstand, we'll slide back a year, to 1992, as SPIN attempts to dial up the seven greatest bands of all time. Well, no spoilers here. And really, nothing even remotely controversial. In '92 Spin was still not quite as "alternative" as it would later become (or pretend to become), and their top-seven is proof positive. In no particular order:

Sex Pistols
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Public Enemy
The Ramones
Jimi Hendrix

Yawn. Rolling Stone wants its canon back! Although, in fairness to SPIN, the world would not become thoroughly listified for another fifteen years (thanks for nothing, blogosphere!), so at the time this must have provoked heated arguments among the slacker set. Some of the goofy, throwaway, "seven-based" humor pieces are much more entertaining (#5 on the list of "Seven Ways To Kill A Rock Star" is "Introduce him to Jeff Lynne." Huh?). There's also a surprisingly prescient "Guide to College Music," including featurettes on up-and-comers The Breeders, Manic Street Preachers, Swervedriver, Uncle Tupelo, and Moose. Well, four-out-of-five ain't bad.

But here's my favorite thing about this issue: buried underneath all of the self-congratulatory essays and chest-puffing argument fodder, tucked into the review section under the heading "Blue Light Special," Jim Greer's heartfelt defense of Queen:

What Queen did for me as a kid growing up in the suburbs in the 1970s was teach me the value of antisocial behavior. Meaning that none of my friends liked the band, but I stuck with 'em anyway (the band, not my friends)...In retrospect, it's easy to see what [they] didn't like. Queen was a bit off, wasn't it? Not nearly as one-dimensional or straightforwardly rock 'n' roll as our other heroes, Aerosmith, Boston, Sabbath, and Skynyrd, Queen introduced an element of uneasiness into the already-confusing world of adolescence, and was therefore taboo. Which to me was cool; I thought Queen was Art the way I thought The Lord of the Rings was Art. My love for the band was a way of placing myself above my peers, and of feeling misunderstood - essential for any budding misfit.

Also: NKOTB vs. Michael Jackson, TS Eliot vs. Lou Reed, and Gameboy vs. productivity.

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David Gilmour To Release Live Album In September

David Gilmour has announced the release of Live In Gdansk in September, 2008 on Columbia Records. The album was recorded during the last concert of Gilmour's 2006 summer tour, which was held in front of 50,000 people at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland.[...] Read more!

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Cursive Visit Daytrotter, Debut New Songs

Cursive got a passing mention last week, and before that we were shrugging our shoulders at the bad video for "Bad Sects," but the Omaha quintet passed through Daytrotter so now they get an updated, more joyous post all to themselves. Tim Kasher & Co. recorded three songs including an impassioned take on The Ugly Organ's "Sierra" plus two brand new ones, the organ-drenched "Let Me Up" and airier "Donkeys." They deal with people behaving badly or sadly. Take a listen at Daytrotter. We're told Cursive's booked studio time beginning next week to get going on their follow-ups to 2006's Happy Hollow!, and that these two will be on it, so this at least offers a tiny idea of what to expect. They also have a few dates coming up during which they'll debut more new material (in fact, the folks at Saddle Creek say they'll play "almost all new" material). Just three dates, though, so spin the bottle and see if they're passing through your city.

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New Tokyo Police Club Video - "In A Cave"

TPC are masterminding the duration of their blog buzz in powerful ways so take notes, young bands. Start with a remarkable EP. Follow that with another. Then put out a video for practically every track, including one that predicts the apocalypse is coming next year. Record a fairly enjoyable debut album. Make sure to give away a free MP3. Use big words. Release a "remix one week, chase that with a proper video the next. Umm, duh?

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