We can all pray that this doesn’t happen (please God don’t let this happen), but today manager Sam Luft commented that he and Courtney Love are in fact “currently working on a possible motion picture or Broadway musical based on the Nirvana catalogue, based on her life and Kurt Cobain’s.” While we think this idea […]
Archive for October 25th, 2012
DAMMIT: Nirvana Musical Being Discussed
October 25th, 2012 
Dan Bogosian 
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Tags: broadway, courtney love, hole, kurt cobain, musical, nirvana, raped by muppets, Smells Like Teen Spirit, the muppets 
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HOLY SH!T: Video Surfaces Of Lil Reese Beating A Woman
October 25th, 2012 James Shotwell Chicago rapper Lil Reese just earned himself the honor of permanently being on UTG’s shitlist. The eighteen-year-old who recently made headlines for his Chief Keef assisted “Traffic” single is once again setting trending topics worldwide thanks to a newly surfaced video that shows the artist beating a young female. UTG has the footage after the […]
ALBUM STREAM: Tigers Jaw – ‘2008 Summer EP’
October 25th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Scranton, Pennsylvania based band Tigers Jaw have released an internet stream of their 2008 Summer EP. The appropriately titled release is only three tracks and comes out on Run For Cover Records. It is surprisingly quiet, and more of an acoustic EP than a live album seemingly implied by the title. It’s definitely a must have […]
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Rites of Spring Releases ‘Six Song Demo’
October 25th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Emo pioneers Rites of Spring had members that would later go on to join post-hardcore pioneer band Fugazi, and will always be remembered as one of the first emo bands (as well as naming a band after a Stravinsky ballet, if that’s your thing.) Now, Dischord Records are releasing their original Six Song Demo on 10″, CD, […]
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Ben Gibbard Says There Are “No Plans” For A New Postal Service Album
October 25th, 2012 James Shotwell Indie music fans have wanted a new album from The Postal Service for a decade now, and it looks like they will have to wait a lot longer before anything happens (if it ever does). Speaking with Spinner recently, Gibbard addressed recently surfaced rumors of new material from the project with the following: “There are […]
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Patrick Stump Squashes FOB Rumor
October 25th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Between this and the hiatus of Scissor Sisters, today is off to a rough start. Yesterday, the blogosphere went nuts over Keltie Colleen letting the cat out of the bag that she knew “FOB were working on new songs.” Now, Patrick Stump has squashed that rumor. He took to his Twitter to say that “One […]
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DAMMIT: Scissor Sisters Going On Hiatus
October 25th, 2012 James Shotwell Of all the Top40 groups to grace UTG over the last five years, few have received the outpouring of love that our staff and readers have shown the Scissor Sisters. From the days they didn’t feel like dancing, to the nights only horses could find us, this New York based glam act redefined the way […]
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WATCH: Taking Back Sunday (featuring Michelle Nolan) – “Bike Scene”
October 25th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Taking Back Sunday has been killing it on their Tell All Your Friends Tenth Anniversary Tour with Bayside. At the Troubadour on October 23, they were joined by guitarist John Nolan’s sister, Michelle Nolan, for a semi-acoustic performance of “Bike Scene.” Michelle does backing vocals originally on the record, so fans there were in for a […]
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Converge Crash Van, Everyone Safe
October 25th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Punk group Converge have recently gotten into a car accident while on tour. The story is they were traveling through Oregon when they hit a patch of black ice. Luckily, no member of the band was hurt, unless you can consider the van’s bumper an active member. The band released the following statement: “After driving […]
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