Before we close out the weekend, a few links worthy of your clicking / browsing:
• Axe-slinging Idolator fave Mary Timony has a new band called Soft Power, which, based on the two songs that are streaming from its MySpace right now, sounds like what would happen if her solo efforts got Krautrock remixes. Needless to say, I love this. [MySpace via Jessica Hopper]
• Pete Wentz is imagineering a comic book around the Folie A Deux track “Tiffany Blews.” Also, it’s his 30th birthday today. Also, this Sunday’s episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is called “Folie A Deux,” although I suspect that is just a coincidence. [Fall Out Toy Works / Buzznet]
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Posts Tagged ‘kerrang!’
British Music Mags Are Feeling The Pain
Most of the music magazines from across the pond saw circulation dips on the print side in the first quarter of 2008, with Kerrang! experiencing a staggering 21.6% drop in readership (to 60,290 readers) and NME’s readership falling 12.1% on the half-year to 56,284. MORE »
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The Readers Of “Kerrang!” Love Them Some My Chemical Romance
The results of Brit rock mag Kerrang!’s reader poll are now officially my favorite year-end lists so far. They’re adorable! Kerrang!’s readers seem to only love about six bands (but really love them), they think mall emo/pop metal is some apex for Western civ, and their “sexiest male” and “sexiest female” lists totally spank that Stereogum silliness we posted earlier. The full lists (minus the bullshit about books and movies) are after the jump, but first, well you know.
THE GOOD: How good is it that the “Worst Band” category is basically just a rejigged version of the “Best Band” category? Also, I don’t even know what three out of Kerrang!’s five sexiest ladies look like, but I will say that Amy Lee > Leslie Feist. And hating on Jared Leto (as “Villain Of The Year”!) is always appreciated. (But then you go and give his dumb band best single! You nutty kids!)
THE BAD: You know, there are other bands besides MCR, 30 Seconds To Mars, Muse, Lostprophets, the Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, and Linkin Park out there, y’all. Just sayin’.
THE WHAAAA? I loves me some My Chemical Romance, too, but are they really toothsome enough to occupy three spots in the “Sexiest Male” category? (And poor Mikey Way, always the bridesmaid.) MORE »
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British Tour Manager Now Officially Not A Wanker
A quick update on yesterday’s post on Mark Stickland, the tour manager who sued Kerrang! magazine for a story in which he was accused of masturbating while on the road with British metal band Bullet for My Valentine: A heavy metal band tour manager has been awarded £40,000 libel damages by the… MORE »
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British Tour Manager Denies Being A Wanker
As if the Hip-Hop Weekly/Source dust-up wasn’t enough, No Rock&Roll Fun alerts to another music-mag legal battle raging this week. MORE »
