Attention shoppers: time for holiday shopping is running short – have you finished yet?You know you can hear that announcement running through your mind as you read this, but that's okay, shopper. You're not the only one running frantically around the...
Over the years, lots of jokes have been made at Ozzy Osbourne's expense, but it's sort of understandable because so many things the singer has done are unbelievable. This is a man who has gone no fewer than forty–two rounds with professional rock n'...
Okay, so, with installment One of Ground Control's gift guide coverage on the books, readers may have picked up a few ideas. We tried to get a bit in for everyone, but of course there are going to be a couple of people still wandering the malls and the internets...
Before Brooklyn was to the early Millennium what Seattle was to the Nineties, before the machine pumped out tonnes of boring synth-pop bands and before the broad concept of “hipsterism” was a going concern, there was a small group of bands doing great...
Now with their Bastards Of Reality tour as Bat Sabbath beginning to wind to a close, the Cancer Bats are finally ready to announce the first details for the follow-up to 2010's Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones LP: their fourth album will be called Dead Set On...
The more unlikely an event is, the more fantastic it is when it comes to pass. One such moment came yesterday, when The Beach Boys announced that they will reunite for a global Fiftieth Anniversary celebration in 2012. The Beach Boys – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al...
It’s been quite a while since The National played a reasonably intimate venue in Chicago. The past few years have included multiple summer stops at Lollapalooza, Pitchfork Festival and even an opening spot for R.E.M. at the United Center. All of those settings...
Izza mos' wondaful time o' da year Junky!How're ya keepin' ova dere, ya reprobates? Thing're goin' great 'ere, 'at's fo' sure. Nothin's slowed down'is week – in spite o' da fac'dat the man wit' da red...
Cage The Elephant may have been the band who struck gold saying that there ain't no rest for the wicked but, in the two years since releasing their third album, Billy Talent has proven it to be true, having set an iron man's tour itinerary which has seen them...
What’s a god to a non-believer? It’s really about, “Why is there hype if there is no music that we haven't come to expect,” but maybe I’m coming at this wrong. Watch the Throne by Kanye "Ye" West and Jay-Z had the greatest...