Our Lady Peace: Burn Burn: Live Interview/Review Raine Maida

In 2009, Our Lady Peace produced their seventh album, Burn Burn, released on Warner Music's Independent Label Group. The 10 tracks will be available on July 21st, 2009. This album is their first since 2005,...

Can Artists Be Labels? Reznor, Radiohead, and the Mass Market

While artists rail against exploitative labels, those labels do fulfill a role in the entertainment-biz ecosystem: basically, everything other than actually recording and performing the music. However, thigs are...

Lankan troops dig out Prabhakaran's birth certificate, album

Sri Lankan Army while capturing the last bastion of LTTE, Puthukudiyiruppu of nortt Sri Lanka managed to find the horoscope and photo of the terrorist leader V. Prabhakaran. According to defence sources, the main body of the LTTE forces does not exist any more. All left are...

Kanye West Announces '808s & Heartbreak' 2009 World Tour

Everybody's favourite Auto-Tune'd rapping megalomaniac, Kanye West, has proudly announced that he will be heading out on a 2009 world tour in support of his latest album of hip-pop melancholy "808s &...

Coldplay to Give Away Free Live Album this Summer

Coldplay is planning to release a free live album this summer. Apparently this is the band's way of helping its fans "who are struggling with the current economic crisis". But it might be worth noting that the vast...

She & Him, Death Cab, Katy Perry For Starbucks Covers Comp

Death Cab For Cutie, She & Him and Katy Perry are among the artists featured on Starbucks forthcoming ‘Sweetheart‘ compilation album. The coffee giant is set to release the covers comp, which includes...

Animal Collective Announce 'Merriweather' World Tour Dates

Animal Collective are quickly establishing themselves as the de facto blog buzzband of 2009 with the recent release of their new and much-hyped eighth studio album Merriweather Post Pavilion.The album is already...

Kardinal Offishall Numba 1 in Stores Feb 2nd

Fresh from shaking up the UK charts and injecting a dose of Canadian hip hop fun with his hit single Dangerous featuring Akon, Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall returns with his own version of The Paragons' The...

U2 Reveal New Album Cover Art, Tracklisting

U2 have unveiled the album cover for their forthcoming album ‘No Line on the Horizon‘. The 11-track album, which was produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, is due out March 3. The first single off the new album, ‘Get On Your Boots‘, was released...

Pete Doherty Reveals Solo Album Details

Pete Doherty has revealed a few details about his forthcoming solo album due out later this year. The Babyshambles frontman recently revealed to NME that the album would be titled ‘Grace/Wastelands‘ and will be released on March 16. The forthcoming album is set to feature...

Elbow album voted top album of 2008 by UK critics

  Elbow's album The Seldom Seen Kid has been named album of the year by UK music critics. Earlier this year the album won the Mercury Music Prize and Elbow have toured the UK to full houses since then. The...

Jackson buying his own albums

As the photo proves, Michael Jackson, heavily disguised was spotted (hat, sunglasses, veil, mask) getting out from a Hollywood shopping center, one of the most famous habits of his. Why he was carrying a box-set with his old albums everybody wonders...Is he that poor that he...

Lil Wayne Recording 'A Complete Rock Album'

Not content to conquer the worlds of rap and pop simultaneously, hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne is now rumoured to be recording an album of rock & roll. Weezy has apparently drawn inspiration from by Kanye West's...

Britney Spears 'Circus' Tops Billboard Charts

If nothing else, Britney Spears is back on top of her album-selling game, as her latest album Circus will debut at #1 on next week's Billboard album charts."Her Circus album will debut at #1 on next week's...

Trent Reznor Rumoured to Retire From Music

After trying to beat Radiohead at their own 'reinventing the music industry' game earlier this year, Trent Reznor has built up some understandable frustrations with the biz.Now the Nine Inch Nails frontman is...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from