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It’s another bad week for music criticism, not only are studies saying no-one wants/needs it anymore but now comes news of of the UK ABC figures which reads gloomily as follows… Future Publishing’s Metal Hammer ended the half year up 6.0% with 48,540 readers, although this was still down 1.2% on th...

Can you believe the charming bastard, ex-guitarist of Nirvana/Foo Fighters and founding member of LA punks The Germs, is only 43...

Entourage is one of the coolest shows on television. The writing is acidic and Jeremy Piven’s Ari Gold is one of the nastiest, sharpest tongued characters to come out of Hollywood in years. The good news: It’s back. The show will air September 7 on HBO. You can watch a trailer here: [...]

So Independent, who got tipped off by one of Hot Chip, got it right “Another former student is William Bevan, aka Burial, a dubstar artist who enjoys a cult dancefloor following and who likes to retain a Banksy-like anonymity.” The following was just posted and confirmed via Burial’s Myspace blog…...

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Animated Series was a short-lived project produced by Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox in 2001. It was intended for Fox Kids, but, following the demise of the kids network, it was never aired...

Ahead of his new book ‘FREE’ the Wired Editor-in-Chief has been doing a lot of blogging and this set of stats are pretty succinct: How much of Apple’s iPod $4 billion in annual sales should be credited to the libraries of “free” MP3 that created demand for gigabyte storage devices? How much...

Music and comedy is a tough mix; very few television series and movies about bands are very funny. I don’t know whether this is because rock n roll is, itself, one giant parody or we all take ourselves too seriously. ...

Hunter S. Thompson was a prolific bastard. The man could write and write and write. As well as the 15 odd books, campaign portrayals and collections, he wrote a lot of letters. Approximately 800 boxes worth...

There’s a neat profile of Downtown Records, the label home of Gnarls Barkley, Justice and the Cold War Kids, in today’s LA Times. It looks at how the label and its publishing subsid co-exist as well as a focus on rcrd lbl, its music-blog-turned-online-arm. T...

No news has reach us yet of any gas chambers cranking out Glassjaw but… Last month the State Duma held a hearing on “Government Strategy in the Sphere of Spiritual and Ethical Education”, a piece of legislation aimed at curbing “dangerous teen trends”. There, w...

Arthur Magazine, the freak folk loving, Thurston Moore adoring title, is moving from Los Angeles to New York. It’s all about Brooklyn, baby. I hear Williamsburg is wonderful this time of year. Jay Babcock: New York is just a more hospitable environment than L.A. ever has been or will be. L.A. ...

Viacom, the media conglomerate and MTV owner run by Sumner Redstone, did not attempt to buy music blog aggregator and portal of mp3 joy for $10m . So says Anthony Volodkin: It was reported in April that Viacom offered to buy the Hype Machine for $10 million. Volodkin says this isn’t true. ...

You sample some of the biggest artists in music on this record. How concerned are you about getting sued by one of them? I feel morally sound that we shouldn’t be sued — I feel like the music’s transformative; it doesn’t negatively impact anyone. And th...

Robot Chicken, the animated series created by Seth Green, is one of the funniest cartoons on television. Some sketches on the Adult Swim show rival Family Guy for incomprehensible brilliance. The best episode is the Robot Chicken: Star Wars parody special...