I’ve been holding back on Jack White’s latest ’supergroup’, The Dead Weather. I suppose I was cautious because A)I didn’t really care much for the Raconteurs, despite being a White Stripes & B Benson fan, B)I haven’t been crazy about the last two White Stripes albums, either and C)’supergroups’ are pretty hit and miss. [...]

Apparently, Jaime Hince’s main squeeze Kate Moss has deprived the world of 6 Kills tunes. Per NME:
Kate Moss has destroyed the only copies of a new batch of songs by boyfriend Jamie Hince’s band The Kills.
An argument between the duo resulted in the model throwing her man’s bag into a nearby swimming pool, not realising [...]

Wow! The Horrors have seriously stepped up their game. I loved the creepy, Crampsesque goth-garage of their first album, but this is definitely a new and interesting direction to take. Production duties on new album Primary Colours were Chris Cunningham (previously known mostly for his music video work), Craig Silvey and Geoff Barrow of Portishead. [...]

You know, we all seem to break down into different groups based on all sorts of interests, likes/dislikes, backgrounds, etc., but few lines seem to cut so distinctly as the Cat Person/Dog Person divide. I have friends who absolutely and without question cannot stand cats, to any degree. They think they’re dirty, annoying, persnickety and [...]

I thought The Kills’ Midnight Boom was an under appreciated gem last year. It seemed it was too easily dismissed as being somehow insubstantial in comparison to other releases, yet I thought it was easily one of their best albums (and definitely one of the better albums released last year).
‘Black Balloon’ was easily one of [...]