UPDATE – The free download of “Perfectly Defect” is not longer active on the Mortiis website. However, “The Great Deceiver” is now out! Click here to sample and buy it! Mortiis has made a new album, “Perfectly Defect,” available as a free download. While the still in-progress “The Great Deceiver” is the ‘true’ follow-up to … Read more
Front Line Assembly have canceled their planned U.S. tour, which was to have started on October 31. “We have had too many problems putting the tour together, and the bottom line is if we can’t put on a good show for you the fans, then it’s just not worth it. We apologise to all of … Read more
With his various projects over the years, former Bronski Beat / Communards vocalist Jimmy Somerville has done some great cover versions (The Communards “”Don’t Leave Me This Way” is a personal favorite of mine.) So the fact that Somerville would eventually do a covers-only release comes as no surprise. But what is unexpected is that … Read more
On Sunday, September 27, Book Of Love did a special performance in New York to celebrate the re-release of their catalog. Despite encountering some technical glitches, the band put on an amazing show that focused primarily on their first, self-titled album. Below is a video that we shot of them performing “Pretty Boys and Pretty … Read more
Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, has been released as an iPhone app that brings together? the text version, audio book, and videos of Cave reading from it. Telling the “furious, funny, disturbing account of a traveling salesman’s last days on earth,” the app version of the book syncs the different versions, … Read more
After being pushed back from an April release, the highly anticipated movie musical “Repo! The Genetic Opera” will finally be unleashed on November 7, 2008. Based on a stage musical, the sci-fi/horror tale of a future where organs are harvested for profit has one of the most eclectic casts ever assembled. Who would ever have … Read more
From the official Devo website: McDonald’s & American Idol Go LowBy Co-Opting DEVO’s Energy Dome We recently discovered that DEVO has once again unwittingly intersected with mainstream pop culture. McDonald’s fast food restaurants are offering a series of American Idol TV show themed toys in their children’s Happy Meals. One of the toys is named … Read more
It’s been almost a decade since the last Shamen album (“UV”) and I’d been wondering what frontman Colin Angus has been up to (I knew rapper Mr. C has been keeping busy with DJing and other projects). So I was very happy to learn that Angus is back with a new musical project called Pablo … Read more
Rasputina will soon be doing their first-ever show in the UK, performing in London at Queen Elizabeth Hall on January 29th. The band is looking to possibly do another show while in the country; interested clubs or venues should email their manager John Hall at Johnvirtuallabel.biz. “Oh Perilous World,” the latest Rasputina CD, comes out … Read more
Ever wonder what you, or someone close to you, might look like as a zombie? Zombieportraits.com is a website that can provide the answer. For $80, artist Rob Sacchetto will work from a supplied photo to create an original, hand illustrated portrait depicting the subject as a brain-eating member of the undead. We emailed Sacchetto … Read more