On March 26, 2009, Alpha Media Group announced that it was closing Blender magazine. The periodical, which began in 1994 as the first digital CD-ROM magazine, specialized in music reviews and employed thirty people. AMG will be reducing its portfolio... 

For a very long time I have felt that musicians could ditch the traditional labels and distribution system and do most of the work themselves. I always wanted to make a site where musicians could sell their music worldwide and have the full control over... 

According to the Kasabian website, Kasabian will be giving away a new song, Vlad The Impaler, starting March 31. The song will only be available for 4 days so make sure you get on there and download it in time. Here's the post from the Kasabian site; Kasabian... 

The hugely hyped Amazing Baby have talked to NME.com about their upcoming debut album which is tentatively planned for release this summer. The hype about Amazing Baby is understood especially coming on the heels of fellow Brooklynites MGMT's success.... 

This Mando Diao song and video ROCK MY ASS! Sit in your chair and download this album, you won't be sorry unless you no likey to rock. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Love this Mando Diao song and Video!", url: "http://www.spundel.net/2009/03/love-this-mando-diao-song-and-video/"... 

Pitchfork has announced the dates and some of the lineup for the 2009 Festival. The festival will be held July 17-19 at Chicago's Union Park. Pitchfork is THE festival to see in Chicago during the summer in my humble opinion because the lineup is the... 

It was bad enough that the legendary Miley Cyrus attacked Radiohead for being, well, Radiohead, but now the Cure's Robert Smith is on the attack. Smith is attacking Radiohead for letting consumers dictate the price they want to pay for the bands IN RAINBOWS... 

NIN|JA NIN, Janes Addiction and Street Sweeper have released a free EP on their NIN|JA 2009 website. The EP was released to promote the upcoming 2009 tour. Just supply an email address and you get two songs each from NIN, Janes Addiction and Street Sweeper.... 

Okay, this is very hard for me to say, but I love the Lady GAGA album. It all started innocently enough, my 5 year old daughter Frida saw a picture of her on youtube and asked me to play the video. I played it, she loved it, I bought it for her reluctantly... 

GNR has announced DJ Ashba will be their new lead guitarist taking over for the departed Robin Finck who is going back to NIN.  Ashba comes from the Nikki Sixx project Sixx A.M.  I guess from the press release on GNR's website Ashba will be joning the...