In yet another case of “Why the hell not in America?”, the U.K. government has started up a new initiative that would give the music industry 26 million pounds to help create new jobs during the recession.
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Bringing back their lo-fi, garage-pop appeal, Cause Co-Motion! is preparing to release a six-track record this week, as a follow up to the 2008 compilation release, It’s Time! As a preview of what you will hear from the band off of the new release, we are streaming the band’s single, “You Lose”.
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Metallica and The Beatles have both been turned into video game heroes; and now it’s Van Halen’s turn to jump on the Guitar Hero wagon.
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When we caught wind of the title of Wilco’s new album, Wilco (The Album), we accepted their seemingly mundane decision and hoped that the new album would be the staple of all Wilco records — because come on, if it is going to take you seven albums to finally make one self-titled, it better be a zinger. Well, we might have to rethink our thoughts on this one, because we caught a glance at the band’s new album art.
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Coldplay has said enough is enough with all the copy-catting banter that has been circulating around their song “Viva La Vida”. As we previously reported, both Cat Stevens and Joe Satriani have accused the pop-rock musicians of ripping off their music. The band has adamantly denied the accusations and now Will Champion, the band’s drummer, has a message for them both: “there are only eight notes in an octave and no one owns them.”
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