That Was The Week That Was…

Manson gets chummy with Eminem, Audioslave speak out, Billy Corgan readies his troops, The Strokes put the breaks on and Tenacious D hit the big screen, It’s all in the Xfm Music News Review.
Well the big updates from the frontline recently include our exclusive chat with Tom Morello, guitarist with Rage Against The Machine / Soundgarden supergroup, Audioslave. Apparently while shooting the video for their new single ‘Cochise’ the band were
Another new band hiding members from an old favourite are Zwan. Formed around ex Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, Zwan have just finished their
In terms of collaborations, all manner of strange bedfellows have been popping up from under the duvet. It looks like there’s a chance that
Talking about Eminem, the man himself also topped Rolling Stone’s
We haven’t heard a lot from The Strokes of late, it must be said. The band have been playing a huge US tour for the past two months, but we snatched some chat with them, only to find singer Julian Casablancas describing their debut album ‘Is This It?’ in
Is it? Is it really? Write some new f***ing songs then, eh? You moaning p***k.
Another exclusive we secured came courtesy of Xfm favourite Liam Lynch. He told us about, working with the Foo Fighters on their new video, his upcoming projects with Ben Kweller, and No Doubt, as well as revealing fantastic news about his plans to make a full length
And finally, in the ‘Token bloody stupid story’ file, the top Top 50 ‘Greatest Drugs Songs Ever’ list has been revealed (is this recent godawful spate of ‘Top [insert name of something] Lists’ gonna get worse as we lead up to Xmas?]. Anyway Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ was number 1 just behind The Beatles ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. Elsewhere hip hop legends Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel sniff in at 6 The Lemonheads rolls up at 30, The Happy Mondays are at 40 and bringing up the rear at 50 are sadly imploded baggy tune dealers Flowered Up with ‘Weekender’.
Mind you, I calculate that Primal Scream have recorded about 76 songs, all of which are about, connected with, recorded or on or while waiting for, and simply written while under the influence of all the major narcotic categories, and yet they only have two entries in a chart. So the list can’t be that accurate.
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