News we can’t be bothered to post on rawkstar #1
Posted by Bob at 23:15 on July 13, 2006
Well, here is a round up of various news items from the big bad internet none of the team (including myself) could be bothered to copy and paste into the rawkstar news page.
- BSP headline charity festival in London – and it’s free!
- Sam’s Town – hmmmmmm The Killers pay back gambling debts with some free promotion for local Casino
GollumTom York solo single – right after V!- Nicky Wire aka Manics Bassist releases details on… releases!
- Weezer are no more!
- Influential Floyd member dies – Shine on You crazy Diamond
- The Chiefs are returning with new tunes (well… they’re nearly finished their 2nd album…)!
- Muse Supermassive big tour!
- Flaming small tour!!
- If only i could drum, lived in London and… well maybe not the third one, then it’d all be pointless!
- No more 7″ singles from Fierce Panda – WHYYYYYYY?!
Yes, I only went through the NME, Drowned in Sound and thisisfakediy news pages but that’s all we need for one news post!!.
Enjoy!
Blog Design
Posted by Bob at 15:15 on June 25, 2006
I know the current colour scheme doesn’t fit the rest of the rawkstar site, I will change it to the ‘red’ scheme at some point! I’m really just posting this to see what 2 Quickies look like together 
. Also, I’m tempted to not show the quickies on the rawkstar.net homepage (in the recent blog entries list), what do y’all think?
Quickie
Posted by Bob at 13:25 on June 24, 2006
As you may notice, I’ve changed the theme the rawkstar blog uses. Now it has these small entries called ‘quickies’ (wordpress people call them asides, I prefer calling them quickies). So, you may now see more random small comments from the team here!
Rap Music – and it’s repercussions
Posted by dj bored housewife at 14:37 on May 25, 2006
You’ve all probably seen the viral on YouTube regarding “AverageHomeboy”…
Is anyone else aware that this guy is actually for real? That to this day, he is still marketing himself as a rapper? Blazin’ Hazen, however, has dropped the really, really poor Casio keyboard drum machine and gone for something… yeesh… ‘darker’ (Imagine the whole East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry. Where the West were into G-Funk and slowed out beats, the East brought out an edgier product e.g Wu Tang Clan)
Anyhoo – blazinhazen.com
You try figure out if it’s a gimmick or for real these days
Filed under Funny
Hello again….
Posted by dj bored housewife at 12:49 on May 16, 2006
Firstly, great thanks for everyone at Rawkstar to allow me back to write. I’ve been on somewhat of a religious mission working on online radio and so forth, but it’s nice to be writing again.
(I’m a suck up at heart)
Anyhoo – my question is, what happened to all the great bands of the early 90′s? I’m talking about bands like Luscious Jackson, Elastica, Sleeper, Juliana Hatfield, Buffalo Tom… I could go on and on and on. These were bands who dominated a time where the whole ‘alternative’ scene was cool, that it wasn’t bogged down into the scheme of stereotypical genre placement (it all gets so confusing these days as well, especially trying to follow genre’s of dance music), who got masses of time on MTV and other sources of music television, and were definitive “college” rock bands (there, I used one of the stereotypes I tried to stray away from”. Only today I stuck on “Tree House” by Buffalo Tom and nearly shed a damn tear when next on my iPod came Razorlight. It’s not that I hate Razorlight, it’s just not the same – the contrasts between music and glamour.
I do, however, count my lucky stars bands like Mudhoney and Sonic Youth are still on the go. I jumped for joy when I heard The Pixies were reforming for a few ‘nostalgic’ shows. I jumped even more when rumours broke that Smashing Pumpkins might reform. Sadly though, some of these bands seem to have been caught up in the media hype machine. beloved Foo Fighters seems more preoccupied now raising political awareness and telling dick jokes than going back to their rugged, less-than-polished heavy routes (that’s coming from a die hard Foo Fighters fan as well… so yeah, I am taken aback by it all), meanwhile Courtney Love is peddling her wares with Steve Coogan, allegedly, of all people.
Oh well, at least we’ve still Dinosaur Jr.
I’m off to wipe the tears from my eyes 
Filed under Rant
Albums of the year?
Posted by Andreas at 00:39 on May 3, 2006
I’d just like to highlight some of the releases I am mostly looking forward to in the coming weeks/months, in the hopes that you, dear reader, will tell me which you are excited about and so we can all relish in the exchange of information. Anyway, here it goes!
- Asobi Seksu: Citrus. New York band that sounds like a swirling dream of wonderfulness. Album out a the end of this month, I do believe.
- This et Al: Sabbatical. We’re quite fond of this lot over at rawkstar hq, and their next single and upcoming album should be immense.
- Bloc Party: whatever it is called. Are you excited? I am. Hopefully it’ll be less punk-funk, and blog posts assure me this is the case.
- Mean+Flower: Untitled. The return of Europe’s best unsigned poprock band?
Now, your turn!
Filed under News
All you’ll ever be is a dancer…
Posted by Andreas at 12:38 on April 5, 2006
Is a song by This Et Al. Furthermore, I absolutely love it. From the jarring chords to the sensitive chorus bit, it’s all good. Ticking in at under 2 minutes “all you’ll ever be…” is terribly short, but my, those 96 seconds are purest gold.
Lord of the Rings – They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard!
Posted by Bob at 19:24 on March 27, 2006
A hilarious video, watch and enjoy!
Placebo .Meds – Fancy packaging!
Posted by Bob at 01:57 on March 21, 2006
I ordered the new Placebo album ‘Meds’ the other week from HMVs website, at the time I thought £17.99 was a bit much for a CD with a bonus CD. But I ordered it anyway! It’s one of my CD buying ‘rules’, if there is a special edition, I have to get it! This applies even if I’m not a massive fan of the band… Anyway, I’m still not convinced that it was worth £17.99. – Edit: I just found it on Amazon for a whole £7 cheaper! D’oh. Oh well, that’ll teach me not to shop around!
Back to the album itself, the packaging looks like a book, the book part has mostly images with the song lyrics, CD/DVD content and the usual credits part in it. The first half of the book is promo pictures of the album artwork, which is basically an almost naked woman, the rest of it contains pictures from the recording of the album, random arty shots of walls and guitars etc.
I will try and get a review up of the music and DVD at some point, but here are a couple of pictures of the packaging taken with my cameraphone (so excuse the poor quality…). Click the thumbnails below to view.
Random posting
Posted by Bob at 00:32 on February 24, 2006
An amusing video…
Click here to view Quicktime required…
Filed under Funny, Quickies, Random and Video
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