Mere months after proclaiming that she was "not that interested in doing music right now," Courtney Love is on tour with Lana Del Rey with two new songs in her arsenal. The Hole frontwoman released the single "Miss Narcissist" digitally today via Ghost Ramp, the label manned by Wavves' Nathan Williams. It will be released on a 7" this summer, and ( Read more... )

The new Uncut magazine is out and it features a cd that is worth getting. It's a compilation of songs covered by jack White. The original songs are goldmines of blues, folk and vaudeville featuring Blanche, Blind Willie McTell, Leadbelly, Josh White, Son House and Marlene Dietrich.
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For as long as I have been alive and been buying noisy records it's been Kim and Thurston, Kim and Thurston. This doesn't make any sense.

I'm sorry but if I was here I would be crying.

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On the weekend I got a copy of the new Batrider record Piles of lies. I love their disjointed melodies and it appears that its business as usual on the new album. This band is the perfect mixture of offbeat contorted lyrics and crazy riff a rama. Plus, I'm convinced the singer has one of the best voices ever put to record.

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The White Stripes may have called it a day, but it’s likely that we’re going to be hearing from the band for a while yet. Jack White is still plundering the vaults for unreleased songs by the band, the latest of which are a couple of covers that have been exhumed. The version of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” is a typically ( Read more... )