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U2 Continue To Sell Records
By Chris Laverty on Monday, February 14, 2005 at 7:23pm | No Comment

Against all the odds U2 have scored a Number One hit with their latest slice of middle-age snooze rock 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'.

Billboard (at least) finally sees the light…
By 586 MEDIA on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 12:10pm | No Comment

Well at least the Americans have finally seen some sense and are going to add digital downloads to their music charts.

At a time when every man and his dog are talking about the ridiculous state of the UK singles chart it seems Billboard have decided to do the only thing which can give some much needed legitimacy to the whole affair.

Scientist proves that in a weird parallel universe the Brits are actually quite good…
By 586 MEDIA on Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 10:33am | No Comment
Scientist proves that in a weird parallel universe the Brits are actually quite good…

Hurrah, for the future of British music!

The Brits are back to stun our senses, confound expectations and prove incontrovertibly that experimentation, creativity and risk are still alive and well among our proud pop standard bearers…

Oh, sorry hecklerspray must have been briefly transported to a strange parallel universe by downing one too many extra strength Lemsips.

No, in the real world welcome

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No Hope For The States
By C J Davies on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 8:08pm | No Comment
No Hope For The States

Shocking bit of cultural lagging, this. Having soared through the suicide of guitarist Jimmi Lawrence to create orchestral rock masterpiece The Lost Riots,Chichester’s finest Hope Of The States have failed to gather a single – that’s right, a single – nomination for the upcoming NME awards. This from a publication that called the album ‘expansive, cinematic and full of majesty.’

So

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Cut Copy = new wave / shoegazer hybrid with beats, baby
By 586 MEDIA on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 5:24pm | No Comment
Cut Copy = new wave / shoegazer hybrid with beats, baby

What sounds like a combination of The Human League, M83, The Magnetic Fields, Orange Juice and Kevin Shields, mixed by Daft Punk and with overdubs by Interpol and, erm, produced by the artistprobablyknownas Prince?

Cut Copy does, that's what...

knockoff*project presents classic album covers, stolen and butchered
By 586 MEDIA on Monday, February 7, 2005 at 3:07pm | No Comment
knockoff*project presents classic album covers, stolen and butchered

If you are a long-term music/vinyl afficionado you need to stop what you are doing and immediately visit knockoff*project, which has painstakingly collated hundreds of original album covers alongside hundreds of rip-offs.

It is widely known, for example, that the Clash borrowed a fron cover from Elvis, but so too did Tiny Tim, Hasil Adkins and one Tony Blair, among others.

So too we see the look and feel

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REM’s Micheal Stipe a nut for bisexual gingers
By 586 MEDIA on Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:53pm | No Comment
REM’s Micheal Stipe a nut for bisexual gingers

REM's Micheal Stipe has shocked an unshockable world with revelations that he had a 'bisexual awakening' on an Easter Sunday, aged 13, in a bath, with two gingers. We're not making this up...

New Order insulted by Gwen Stefani; Hooky in four-letter outburst
By 586 MEDIA on Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 8:06pm | One Comment
New Order insulted by Gwen Stefani; Hooky in four-letter outburst

Gwen Stefani's new album is "shite", according to New Order's Peter Hook.

The bearded Mancunian (aka Greatest Living Bassist) and Barney were invited by Oxfam-styled Stefani to guest on her new album.

Having taken up the offer to record with her (Barney did some backing vocals and Hooky was unleashed in the usual way) everything went quiet, even after the album was released... with

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