Stone Temple Pilots are set to release their first album in nearly a decade, with their self-titled sixth studio album dropping for international release on 25 May 2010.
Produced by Stone Temple Pilots and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day, Dave Matthews Band, My Chemical Romance), Stone Temple Pilots is the follow-up to 2001’s Shangri-La...
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Gig/Concert: Soundwave Festival Melbourne
Venue: Royal Ascot Showgrounds
Date: 26 February 2010
Headliners: Faith No More, Jane’s Addiction
In one word: Belter
Whereas Big Day Out contained a grand mix of what can only be described as bogans in Australian flags, Soundwave contained a much wider array of people such as emo bogans, metal bogans, ska bogans and punk...
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Gig/Concert: John Waters (actor, filmmaker and all-round influential pop cult icon)
Venue: Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Date: 27 February 2010
Headliners: John Waters
In one word: Dapper
Now I know we’re a music website and all that but you just can’t escape the filthy influence of Baltimore’s own John Waters on popular culture; his work on the musical...
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Gig/Concert: Fucked Up with Kurt Vile, The D’Urbervilles, GIVE
Venue: Opera House, Queen Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 26 February 2010
Headliners: Fucked Up
In one word: Vigourous
On a wintry Friday night at the Opera House in Toronto’s east end two of the area’s best local bands took to the stage. Established hardcore hero’s Fucked...
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Title: Here’s the Tender Coming
Artist: The Unthanks
Label: Rough Trade/EMI
Released: 2 March 2010 Canada and US (UK 14 September 2009)
In one word: Shinemuck
This album is one of the more lovely things I’ve ever tried to appraise. The Unthanks manage to pull off the most well-worn melodies and unsurprising cadences and make them dreamily compelling where...
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Gig/Concert: Volcano Playground w/ Bitter City, Charge of the Light Brigade
Venue: Crown and Tiger, College Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date: 25 February 2010
Headliners: Volcano Playground
In one word: Molten
There was a veritable snowpocalypse tonight in Toronto but that did not stop a crowd of gig goers from braving the elements to turn out at a dingy...
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Title: One Life Stand
Artist: Hot Chip
Label: EMI
Released: 2 February 2010
In one word: Vocals
One Life Stand is an album made to be listened to in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is icy yet warm and familiar, with a sense of being frozen and timeless, as if it could belong anywhere. It’s also comfortingly monochrome; the songs all...
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The White Stripes documentary Under Great White Northern Lights is set to be screened tomorrow, Friday 26 February in Toronto at the Royal cinema in Little Italy.
The film was shot in 2007 during the White Stripes tour across Canada, a tour which saw Jack and Meg White turning up in a lot of destinations...
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