Jilly’s Rockworld and The Music Box in Manchester are to close. For those of you who don’t know of the club from it’s appearance (all be it as it’s previous incarnation Rafters) in the film Control it’s not hard to imagine. It was the kind of club you’d go drinking as an, ahem, certified 18 [...]

Lightspeed Champion, aka Dev Hynes, has had a bit of a rough time lately.  In late March he wrote on his blog of his ordeal after this face swelled up. A couple years ago I had a tooth infection, which then whilst on tour in europe spread and turned into a blood infection, leaving me [...]

Paul Weller seems to be in a constant state of comeback – but his latest effort looks like it will be much more immediate, regaining some his characteristic anger at society’s ways. While we don’t completely agree with the lyric “get your face out of Facebook”, we can’t help but feel glad he is one [...]

Having recently redone the site, our new twitter account is well…..a little bit paltry. But coming together to start a new account for the new TMM has caused a bit of discussion about those essential tweeters. We do have some people we are big fans of and a #ff just aint going to cut it [...]

MGMT have made a bold move by apologising for their new album. We presume this is a tongue in cheek move as here at TMM we think it’s great. Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser said to The Guardian that the album is a radical departure from their commercially successful previous album and have declared it [...]

Recently, the queen of pop herself unleased her Sticky & Sweet Tour DVD/CD set on the world. A glittering, strobing, MASSIVE audio-visual extravaganza captured on film; This DVD is no substitute for being there. However, as us Australian’s aren’t quite as lucky as the Argentines who are filmed here (or, incidentally, the English, who also [...]

It is said that people forever retain an element of who they were when first encountered. For me, Malcolm McLaren, who sadly passed away on Thursday, remained throughout his life the ‘orrible oik from ’77, a brazen Londoner loudly proclaiming the virtues of punk and the Pistols. His desire to get under the skin of [...]

Just a day after the sad passing of Malcolm McLaren, music has lost another great – though very different – character. Scottish Tenor Kenneth McKellar has passed away at the age of 82 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He will be remembered as a true Scot so much so that First Minister Alex [...]

UPDATE: Jonathan Daniel, the manager of Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, has said the reports are false. “That’s an amazing story, and the first I’ve heard of any of this…They manage to fit pretty much everyone in Hollywood into an article without one fact check.” Earlier Story doubting it was true: Twitter is alight with rumours [...]

Here’s a quick singles club to start the weekend properly. ALOE BLACC – I NEED A DOLLAR: Comparisons with classic Motown are inevitable, but it’s a bit more than your bog standard nod to the period. We’re loving the soulful gravely voice and the ability to rhyme “know” and “door” naturally. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI [...]