I’d like to announce the launch of Section 54 Mk. II.
It has a fancy new design and a lot better organised that the previous incarnation. So without further delay, visit section54.com NOW!!!
Author: Bob
Update: More downtime today (31st July), seems to be all sorted out again though…
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As you may have noticed, rawkstar availability has been sporadic of late, but it’s back up again!! My webhost have had a few power problems and other webhost type problems lately.
Hopefully the site will stay up and be accessable again (without excessive page loading times… e.g., waiting a minute for each page to load) as opposed to what it’s been like the past week!
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!
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?
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!
A hilarious video, watch and enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfcybanFKjU
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.
An amusing video…
Click here to view Quicktime required…
Starting today, I have decided to take it upon myself to review the latest free download from the iTunes UK music store *every week.
First review is of ‘Tina Dico’. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “Who?!”, well I was thinking the same… infact, judging by the other free tunes I’ve downloaded in the past, you’ll be saying that [“Who?!”] every week!
Anyway, pop over to the rawkstar main page and click the latest mini review “Tina Dico – In the Red”. – Enjoy.
*Every week unless I forget, or can’t be bothered… or as with the last 2 weeks the songs have been too bad to feature on rawkstar… and not that I’m lazy.
I’ve (slightly) updated the design of the site, I plan on tweaking the design a bit more over the coming weeks so keep an eye out for any errors that creep in!
Your views on the design are appreciated, if you spot any odd happenings with the layout etc, just comment here or use the contact form on the main site and tell me what’s happening and in what browser. I have tested the layout in all the latest browsers I can (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 6 and Opera).
-Edit 23rd Jan.-
Spot the recent change and i’ll give you some free mp3s to download 😛 (or not…).