Mike Miko are a fun live band, so they wisely made a fun live video for We Be Xuxa's "I Got A Lot (New New New)." Speaking of which: Much of the current DIY or lo-fi or "shitgaze" (or whatever) crop is peddling something downcast ("thoughtful") a la Blank Dogs and Dum Dum Girls and the cross-breeding Mayfair Set, Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, an...

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...