Toro y Moi have either gotten really bored or are quite smitten with the UK edition of The Office. Chaz Bundick covered “Slough,” the song recently played by David Brent (acted by Ricky Gervais) in a series of online guitar tutorials. “Slough” is a Brit pop track whose name is the British town where the […]
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Toro y Moi Covered Ricky Gervais’ “Slough” and It Sounds Like David Bowie
August 15th, 2013 
Nina Corcoran 
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MUSIC VIDEO: David Bowie – “The Next Day”
May 8th, 2013 Leanne Cushing David Bowie has done it again with another amazing music video; this time with the help of actors Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman. Billboard reports that Bowie conceived and wrote the premise of the video which has an Adult-Only YouTube rating. The video features Bowie in Christ-like garb, Oldman as a priest and Cotillard as a troubled girl […]
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FLASHBACK: 7 Unforgettable AOL Undercover Sessions
April 26th, 2013 James Shotwell Earlier today news broke over Twitter that Spinner and all of AOL Music would be shutting down. First impressions were that this would be a gradual change, but tweets sent from the Spinner account (which were later deleted) said that the plug was being pulled today. Spinner Editor Dan Reilly even tweeted, “Well, we all […]
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Morrissey Includes Rick Astley On Cover Of Reissued Single “The Last Of The Famous International Playboys” After Bowie Snub
March 6th, 2013 Dayton O'Connor We haven’t been following most of singer/songwriter Morrissey’s recent shenanigans, from his attempt to turn the Los Angeles Staples Center vegetarian for one night to his ongoing enmity with late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. He’s been a busy crank! But this was just too good (and too meme-y) to pass up. Pitchfork is […]
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David Bowie To Release First Album In A Decade, Streams “Where Are We Now?”
January 8th, 2013 Dan Bogosian David Bowie is a rare artist to have had hits in three different decades, with “Space Oddity” coming in the 60s, and the bulk of his hits coming in the 70s and 80s. His most memorable work from the 90s is probably “I’m Afraid of Americans”, which featured Trent Reznor in the music video. Now, […]
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More Hints Regarding Daft Punk’s Recording And Touring Plans For 2013
January 6th, 2013 Dayton O'Connor Daft Punk, that enigmatic Parisian electronic duo, is putting out a new album in 2013! And they’re going to tour in support of it! And they’ll make some festival appearances! Or maybe they won’t do any of those things. Who really knows any more. One thing is for sure: the Daft Punk rumor mill continues […]
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October 17th, 2011 Melanie Rock’s Backpages, the world’s largest online library of rock journalism, is launching an eBooks department in celebration of it’s 10th birthday in November. This new branch is headed by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. The eBooks will consist of two series which further initiate Rock’s Backpages as an electronic publisher of elite rock writing.
Posted in News Tags: amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle store, articles, Backpages Anthologies, Backpages Classics, Barney Hoskyns, Blissed Out The Raptures of Rock, bob dylan, Bob Dylan Electric Omnibus, Bowie, Bud Scoppa, david bowie, eBook, eBooks, Gary Glitter, Interviews, john lennon, John Pidgeon, Kindle, Led Zepplin, Mat Snow, MOJO, morrissey, Music books, New York Dolls, Nick Cave, nirvana, Nirvana Electnic Omnibus, Rock Journalism, Rock's Backpages, Rod Stewart and the Changing Faces, Roxy Music, Simon Reynolds, slade, T.Rex, The Bob Dylan Electric Omnibus, The Byrds, Ziggy Stardust Comments Off on World’s Largest Library Of Rock Journalism Launches New eBooks Series How David Bowie saved Marc Bolan’s son
August 12th, 2011 Michelle In 1977, glam rock star Marc Bolan was killed in a car crash that also seriously injured his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, who had been driving the car. Their son, Rolan, was uninjured, due to his parents’ habit of of leaving him with his grandparents when they went to dinner. Though Bolan had a sizable income […]
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March 5th, 2010 Grant Trimboli When the British Broadcasting Corporation announced plans to potentially shut down 6 Music, the digital radio station they launched in 2002, people were not happy.
Posted in News Tags: 6 Music, Asian Network, billboard, British, Broadcasting, Corporation, david bowie, digital radio station, Ed O'Brien, John Peel, lily allen 1 Comment »Blur hops on for “LEGO Rock Band”
October 15th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Rolling Stone Many a Britpop fan in the Nineties described Blur as “adorable” — and that was before Damon Albarn and Co. were turned into LEGO versions of themselves for the upcoming music video game LEGO Rock Band. The recently reunited group’s “Song 2″ appears on the title’s in-game playlist (see the full list […]
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