Music News ‘Pandemonium’ to hit Aussie shores with inaugural festival featuring Blondie, Dead Kennedys and more by Tom Disalvo Pandemonium Rocks is (potentially) set to host the long-awaited Australian returns of Blondie, Dead Kennedys and more. A new rock festival is poised to hit Australian shores for its inaugural…
Lists News The 6 greatest covers of ‘Heroes’ by David Bowie by Happy Heroes by David Bowie was one of those songs which would forever leave its mark on the world, affecting all of those who heard it. Check out six of the…
Features Pro Audio Blondie – ‘Parallel Lines’: Why It Mattered by Allegra Short Musical innovators and fearless in experimentation, Blondie knew no bounds. Parallel Lines was the epitome of their philosophy. Blondie’s Parallel Lines — the band’s breakthrough album — spawned some of…
Features Pro Audio Madchester and the sounds of the Second Summer of Love by Max Mahood Even though electronic music and synthesisers were becoming more popular throughout the 1980s, there was still a healthy guitar-based strain of alternative-rock music on both sides of the Atlantic. If…
News In a parallel universe: James Bond theme songs that didn’t make the cut by Claire Adema You may not be aware that there have been quite a few potential James Bond theme songs that didn’t make the cut over the years. A number of musicians have…
News Coachella creators announce new festival Cruel World… and Morrissey’s headlining by Manning Patston Goldenvoice have announced a new festival titled Cruel World and honestly, the lineup speaks for itself. Cruel World Festival will commence on the 2nd May, in LA venue Dignity Health…
News Ivan Král, iconic guitarist of Patti Smith, Blondie and more, passes away by Claudia Schmidt A long-time member and co-writer of Patti Smith has just passed away at 71 years old. Ivan Král was a co-founding guitarist of Blondie and also wrote songs performed by…
News Listen to six alternate versions of Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’ from its new deluxe reissue EP by Happy A few weeks ago we announced that archival record label Numero Group would be reissuing Blondie‘s 1979 pseudo-disco hit Heart of Glass, with six versions of the iconic track collected onto a…
News Study reveals drumming drastically improves the lives of children with autism by Molly Lasker The Clem Burke Drumming Project, an association of academics, scientists and musicians, have found that drumming for 60 minutes a week can improve the dexterity, rhythm and timing of students…
Features How Blondie embraced new technology to write the pop hit of the ’70s by Luka Osborne New York in the late 1970s was a colourful place. A place where the fringes of society festered and evolved into a creative stew, despite the fact that the city’s unemployment…
News Vinyl Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’ to be given comprehensive reissue featuring 6 different versions by Molly Lasker US-based archival record label Numero Group is set to give Blondie‘s 1979 pseudo-disco hit Heart of Glass a comprehensive reissue, with six versions of the iconic track collected onto a single deluxe…
News Iggy, Blondie, and Patti: see the first shots from the Smithsonian’s massive concert photo archive by Happy Back in the tail end of 2015, the Smithsonian institute began a massive, crowd-sourced photography campaign. They put the call out for shots of our favourite rock ‘n’ rollers ever,…
Arts News After taking on hip-hop and R&B, Marvel are primed to save the world of rock ‘n’ roll album covers by Jacinta Rets Marvel are well known for everything and anything to do with comic books, superheroes, villains and pretty much just saving the world from evil. In 2015 the comic makers became…
