You couldn't script this story from the Telegraph.A musician with a heart defect has been warned his passion for extremely loud thrash metal could put his life in danger after he suffered three cardiac arrests in one day.Ryan Spearman, bass player with the Gnar Dogs, has been advised to avoid ...

Iggy Pop discussed "King of the Dogs," the lead single from his forthcoming album Preliminaires

A sequel to "I Wanna Be Your Dog," right? Not really. "King Of The Dogs" comes from Iggy Pop's forthcoming solo New Orleans jazz-influenced album Préliminaires, which was also inspired by the French writer Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility Of An Island. That's well and good because when Houellebecq's good -- see The Elementary Particles -- h...

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that work on their new album 21st Centrury Breakdown nearly put him in hospital.In an interview with The Sun, Armstrong said: “We had set the bar so high with American Idiot. We all became sick as dogs. I was close to being hospitalised but they caught me in time. I had the boogie woogie flu...

Incorporating a few releases with relatively bigger labels into his extensive discography of limited-edition 12"'s, 7"'s, etc., Brooklyn BTW Blank Dogs is quite literally getting easier to watch. See, for instance, the forthcoming In The Red-imprinted Under And Under which includes 20 new lo-fi hits (15 on the CD) and also finds Mr. Blank Dogs o...