Friday, February 19, 2010 4:07PM - By Laura Aguirre
Why can’t everyone just get along? Last night, Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers decided to publicly diss Radiohead‘s Ed O’ Brien. The Welsh band was playing a show at the legendary, Scottish 300-capacity venue for the first time since 1991 to celebrate the club’s 20th birthday when Wire told the audience:
“Apparently Ed O’ Brien called me a wanker, I’m really fucking scared, go back to your boarding school you cunt!”
O’Brien made the ‘wanker’ comment in an interview in which he said Wire’s views on file-sharing were ‘bollocks.’ This comment was a response to Wire’s first comment (the one that started the feud), when he said Radiohead only started caring about file-sharing after they’d made millions — this comment was made in December 2007:
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Friday, June 19, 2009 2:08PM - By Jeffrey Hyatt
New music in the spotlight this week has a nice, Alt. pop and Alt. rock flavor to it; definitely some great music to look out for in the coming months.
Time to get sophisticated with your electronic pop. The French duo Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin, better known as Air, are set to bring the love on October 6th with the release of Love 2, the follow-up to 2007′s Pocket Symphony.
The first single, ‘Do The Joy’, will be released digitally on July 7, followed by ‘Sing Sang Sung’ on August 25. Love 2 is the debut production from the duo’s state-of-the-art Atlas Studio in Paris. Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:00AM - By Morelli
The new Manic Street Preachers album, Journal For Plague Lovers, is being shipped to UK supermarkets without cover artwork, because the portrait by Jenny Saville is considered “inappropriate”. The band is annoyed at the setback, and singer James Dean Bradfield called the situation “utterly bizarre”. He told BBC 6 Music that:
“It is her brushwork. If you’re familiar with her work, there’s a lot of ochres and browns and reds and browns, and perhaps people are looking for us to be more provocative than we are being.”
Is “inappropriate” an unfair description? Let’s take a look at some of Saville’s other paintings:
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