Anton Newcombe comes with a certain reputation. Leading the Brian Jonestown Massacre for more than two decades, the American-born / Berlin-based artist matches nigh-on peerless space rock with stunning mood swings. At times, it can seem that through pouring his heart and soul into his music that Newcombe can be incapable of accepting criticism; backing himself into a corner, the songwriter can often seem prickly, defensive evasive. But not today. The voice on the other end of the phone crackles with enthusiasm and – despite the odd ranting conspiracy theory – Anton Newcombe is a welcoming, open soul. Hell, he even signs off ...

As an addendum to the " Cover The Earth " post of bizarre international versions of your favorite oldies, here are various rock remakes recorded over the years by The Ukrainians . Peter Solowka, one of the members of the popular '80s/'90s British combo The Wedding Present, is of Ukrainian descent, and picked up on the music from his father. He hooked up with musicians from the old country to play Ukrainian folk music, but then threw in some covers relevant to his present condition as a rocker living in the UK. And it is some crazy stuff.  No wimpy hippie folk ...

"Why Patty Schemel?" you might wonder towards the beginning of Hit So Hard , P. David Ebersole's recent documentary chronicling the heyday of grunge via Hole 's relatively un-famous drummer ( which is now playing in limited release ). More recognizable faces flit through the film: Here's a shirtless Kurt Cobain , in some charming home-movie footage, looking like an overgrown baby as he sits with Francis Bean in her crib; there's Courtney Love backstage on the Live Through This tour destroying a birthday cake with her bare hands; there's even a snippet of Nardwuar interviewing Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson ...

Read part three of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue with appearances by George Clinton, Can, Suicide, Patti Smith and more. 21. TIM ROSE Drunken bad boy of the Greenwich Village folk scene, known for the version of ‘Hey Joe’ which blueprinted Hendrix’s first hit. During 1967’s summer of love, the alcoholic Rose roared murder ballads and desperate love laments, taking folk to new levels of intensity, but blowing his career with drunken behaviour and patchy albums until resurrected by Nick Cave in the ’90s. 22. GEORGE CLINTON George Clinton and his Parliafunkadelicment ...

There are lots of foreign-language covers out there, but what really intruiges me is when non-Anglo/Americans approach the material from their own ethnic/cultural background.  Sometimes it's kinda clueless, like the South African group who sound like they really don't know their rockabilly (tho I'm sure they know rock better then most Americans know mbaqanga), while others are clearly going for a cross-over audience, e.g. the " chutney " version of Arrow's soca classic "Feelin' Hot Hot Hot": East Indians go to the West Indies. I'm pretty sure the Bappi Lahiri track was no more ...

*Say Anything* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/sayanything) be releasing a documentary on the making of their new album, Anarchy, My Dear. Check out the trailer in the replies.

Say Anything have released their teaser video for the band’s upcoming documentary and it looks inspiring. This documentary will chronicle the making of their latest album, Anarchy, My Dear , and is directed by Chris Phelps. The video looks insightful on the albums meanings, development and direction. Please be sure to pick up Say Anything’s Anarchy, My Dear over on iTunes through Equal Vision Records as well! …

Say Anything have released a trailer for their forthcoming "Anarchy, My Dear" documentary, which can be viewed by clicking read more.

Say Anything shot a documentary while making  Anarchy, My Dear  and a teaser for it has finally be released. Check it out below by clicking “Read More.”[[MORE]]

Hot on the heels of Windmill Moth Glue’s Wizard Entrails comes this limited sackcloth goodie … a tour (only) EP taster of future warped realities…loving the DIY vibe... it’s morbid jubilee-esque arts, enclosed recipe sheet and ciggie burnt typography goes somewhat to describing the caricatured glee it contains… The first track Queenies Gonna Gitya drops you in the deep end , as little goblin children skip around in varying states of deranged merriment, throwing caustic gob balls at a scurrying piano mice backing… later falling over in a hilarity of Suspiria witch screams before dispatching the last rodent stragglers ...

Maroon 5 turns their anti-love song into a full-blown action movie in the video for their newest single, "Payphone." A simple visit to the bank turns into chaos, as robbers run inside. Adam Levine ,   being the hero that he is, takes a bullet in the arm trying to save his superhot co-worker.  VIDEO: Maroon 5 & Wiz Khalifa Perform "Payphone" On 'The Voice'  This turns into an altercation with the bank robbers, Levine and his chick; they leave the scene and a high-speed police chase leads to a bunch of Hollywood-style explosions. What is this, a music video or a  Michael Bay film? PHOTO: Maroon 5 Reveals "Overexposed" Album Art  While all that anarchy is occurring, there's room for our ...

In a fine example of irony, a host of punk bands will perform at an anti-royal Jubilee event...to raise money for a royal charity. The three-day festival features an original Sex Pistol – Glen Matlock – and a host of punk survivors including The Damned, The Buzzcocks, UK Subs, The Vibrators and The stranglers' Hugh Cornwell, and will raise money for a swag of charitable causes, including one with princess Anne as patron. So will the 5,000 strong audience of ageing punks rebel against the cause? Promoter Jeremy Selleck thinks not: "It's a chance to revisit the days of ...

In the last of the Guardian Northerner 's posts on Wearside's great music debate, musician Neil Wood and student Hannah Matterson put their views Neil Wood is a musician and blogger in Sunderland. He's on Facebook and there's more here too . At 21 years old, I am slightly too young to recall the splendour of 1999-2005 in Sunderland. I was too busy playing football in the park and trying to conquer the SATS. Remember them? However, as a musician and blogger based in the city I can offer my own views on Sunderland and the music that ...

"This is my sermon" shouts Ed Schrader, after just over 5 seconds of noisy, almost incomprehensible lyrical shouting top open his Music Beat's debut album. A sermon is exactly correct - what Ed Schrader's Music Beat are spelling out with this often repeated chant is a suitable description of what's to come. With this mission statement heard loud and clear the duo preach to an unsettled flock, and it's the sense of unsettlement that is a constant throughout the album. Through the slower tracks such as 'Gem Asylum' and 'Airshow' the Baltimore duo set out their more ...

Following on from last year's inconceivably wonderful, inaugural London leg of All Tomorrow's Parties' city-dwelling sibling  I'll Be Your Mirror , the show this month rolls on as Glaswegian guitar heroes Mogwai  team up with Barry Hogan & co. for what look set to be three days of aural devastation (look no further than Slayer  churning out seminal '86 LP Reign in Blood  in its entirety on the Friday) and slightly more dainty sonic delights (ATP Recordings' very own Tennis  and the Tall Firs  for instance, both playing Sunday). Taking place within Alexandra Palace atop remote north London mound, here's who we'd insistently advise on experiencing, having of course already implored the acquisition of entrance... The Afghan Whigs Who: The aspirational, stadium-styled alt. rock band it's not only OK but advised to adore, Greg Dulli's The Afghan Whigs  fly into the capital for a UK exclusive. Why: Now or never. Maybe... Irrespective, when news broke of Guided By Voices' retraction from rundown it hit pretty hard although arguably nowhere near as heartily as the soulful swagger of Gentlemen should do come Sunday. Stream below and indulge daydreams of hearing the thing resound around the salubrious environs of the Great Hall. Then dread the drudge back to reality come Monday. When: Sunday. Antoni Maiovvi Who: The latest pseudonym of barking Bristol resident Anton Maiof, expect Italo-disco propensities sprinkled with a touch of abrasion thieved from this intrepid sonic adventurer's noise rock past. Why: Depending on emotion and level of intoxication, Maiof may split off into yet another personality in the randy, rampaging, whisky-swilling and veritably Hydian 'Detective Maiovviwitz' . Something surely worth witnessing, no? When: Saturday. Codeine Who: Soporific NYC slowcore stalwarts appositely named after the narcotic never not close at hand to, nor buried in the handbag of any clandestine over-the-counter addict it's an intensely numbing pleasure to have them back. When I See The Sun –  the remastered discography – is sounding loose and yet more lucid than ever before too. Why: Absent for longer than they were ever active, this could well be the Once in a Lifetime you may find yourself in a beautiful hall, with this stupefying band... When: Saturday. Death Grips Who: Acerbic Sacramento hip hoppers currently propping up the R'n'B LP chart with ingenious major label debut The Money Store , the filth-mouthed Stefan Burnett and his backup production boys are must-sees of the forthcoming estival season that stretches well beyond I'll Be Your Mirror. Why: If the record alone may pertain to such visceral raucousness then one can only recoil in horror-struck wonder [read worry] at what it may become in the Palace's darkest crevice. Forget the lethargy of DOOM's lacklustre showing of yesteryear ; this year's solitary hip hop act promises to inject some steroidal anarchy into proceedings. When: Friday. Demdike Stare Who: So-called 'hauntologists' Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty combine to compute Demdike Stare  whose brisk and bone-tingling techno obscurantism is intensely stimulating without ever overindulging nor elaborating much beyond ratchet clanks and the evoking of an ominously industrial gloaming. Why: The titanic ...