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Liz Phair is ‘a real cunt in spring’ again; New Depeche Mode film; Art Garfunkel’s questionable fashion

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

Fifteen years on, Liz Phair plays her groundbreaking ‘Exit in Guyville’ album in concert. Read a piece, hear the concert and listen to an interview on NPR.

Depeche Mode are back on the road with a new world tour. They also plan to release a new album next April. The Turner Prize winning artist, Jeremy Deller [...]

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Gays hate black music

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Music news

Or so say Radar magazine, who recently ran a piece pondering why gays hate black music, following a list of the 100 greatest, gayest albums of all time was published in ‘Out’. Headlining at number one, was David Bowie’s, ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’. Other selections included no [...]

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Scarlett Johansson wants to make another album despite the fact that last one stunk

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Celebrity

Scarlett Johansson, is already talking about making another record, just months after the release of her debut album, “Anywhere I Lay My Head,” a collection of Tom Waits covers, in May. While obviously aiming for tickbox hipster status on the music front, Johansson got vaguely panned by the critics, in spite of a backing band [...]

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David Bowie to release live album from 1972

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Music news

David Bowie has yet to release a really good live album. But that’s about to change with the release of David Bowie, Live Santa Monica ‘72 in June, as announced on NME.com. Musictoob remembers owning a vinyl bootleg of this concert from Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’ tour of the US, (back when such things as vinyl [...]

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David Bowie Vs Flight of The Conchords

February 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Recommended music

As someone has spent years doing a “funny” David Bowie voice, Musictoob is heartened to discover others have found his Anthony Newly in space voice hilarious too. First Adam and Joe on their excellent BBC Radio 6 Saturday morning show and now these guys…

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