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I heard this on 6 Music late last night. Turns out that Haines, the maverick former Auteurs frontman, released one of his most crackers - and most upbeat - albums yet late in 2011. Named Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early '80s , it focuses on famous legends of the ring, and envisions them in humble situations - such as this strangely pretty song about Rollerball Rocco. Listen out for the fantastically inexplicable f ade towards the end: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit [...]

After both DMX and Sheek Louch referenced infamous Hall of Fame wrestler Bob Backlund during Ruff Ryders' "World's Greatest" comeback track, we were reminded the WWF Superstar-turned-wannabe-polit ician had actually been [...]

While not as solid as some of the Auteurs and Black Box Recorder mastermind's past conceptual dabbles, Nine and a Half ... is a marvel all the same. Reviewing a Luke Haines release is destined to put the critic at a disadvantage. No matter the magnitude of praise heaped upon it, we will never deem a release as ingenious as the mastermind behind the Auteurs and co-mastermind behind Black Box Recorder does. When the critic is an American, the disadvantages are even greater: as deft a songwriter as Haines is (and he's one of the deftest that [...]

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Nazz Jr is big time into Professional Wrestling (WWE for the most part). Being that he's 13, I am OK with that. What scares me is the amount of adults that take the shit seriously. Especially with regard to action figures . Nazz Jr shows me these websites that have fans putting thousands of dollars into collecting figures (and even doing movies with the figures). Being a worldly kid, Nazz Jr has long known about the "scripted" nature (in other words...IT'S FAKE!!!) of wrestling and can laugh along with the storylines. He likes the guys that can [...]

Recently photographer Dalton Blanco went undercover to the Gathering of the Juggalos, adopting the juggalo moniker "D-tox," and alongside his compatriots "LardOG" and "Kev-In-Rock" snapped these shots. The Gathering boasts a line-up that includes Lil Jon, George Clinton, Flavor Flav, Ice Cube, Vanilla Ice (yes that's him with the bong), and Charlie Sheen, a full carnival, a wrestling ring with legends like Chyna and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and truckloads of Insane Clown Posse's trademark Faygo soda. [View with PicLens] [...]

Since professional wrestling is as popular as ever with WWF's Monday Night Raw and WCW's Monday Nitro getting huge ratings week in and out...Whoa, sorry about that. For some reason, I was thinking it was 1998. Still, the fact that it's 2011 isn't stopping Billy Corgan (formerly/currently of Smashing Pumpkins ) from starting his own professional wrestling company. For realz. Corgan appeared on My Fox Chicago yesterday morning to not really promote the Smashing Pumpkins' show this Riviera Theatre tonight, but his [...]

Luke Hainesin uraan mahtuu monta odottamatonta käännettä ja projektia. Listalta löytyy mm. teemalevy terroristiryhmä Baader Meinhofista , yritys saada aikaan kansallinen poplakko , yksi hittisingle sekä 50 livealbumia , jotka julkaistiin samaan aikaan. Mitä tämän kaiken jälkeen? Tietysti psykedeelinen teemalevy, joka käsittelee brittiläisen painin kulta-aikaa! Nine And A Half Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s And Early '80s -levy ilmestyy 10. lokakuuta digitaalisena versiona ja myöhemmin myös rajoitetusti muina versioina. Mistä levyssä on kyse? Hauska promokirje kertokoon: Luke Haines has made this album so that [...]

We very this close to accepting a bet to ask Chris Jericho of Fozzy to put Raz into The Walls Of Jericho, but then we realised just how dangerous and irresponsible it is to ask a professional wrestler to demonstrate moves on untrained journalists. So we just stuck to chatting about his Mum, and why he [...]

Against The World is the fourth studio album from Winds Of Plague. Winds Of Plague are a Symphonic Deathcore band out of Upland, California. You may remember Winds Of Plague's past albums, Decimate The Weak and The Great Stone War. Against The World is seemingly the album that's going to push them to the top of the Deathcore scene. "Drop The Match" is the 3rd track off Against The World and the first track to catch my attention. Pretty standard crunchy guitar and death vocality. I have always liked the simplicity yet catch lyrical content from [...]

The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names is the latest from the evil geniuses at Pop Chart Lab. The new poster is "a celebration of 382 noms de guerre from the world of professional wrestling." Bonus: Order a print by noon today (8/16) and it's 20% off. These guys have done some serious work organizing what feels like every wrestler who's ever existed into some kind of taxonomy. Everyone from Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart to The Fabulous Kangaroos and everyone in between is listed, with their names broken down by subject. If you were ever a fan of wrestling, you could probably [...]

Well, the WWE finally did it. After spending years trying to recreate the magic of the late-90s Attitude Era, Vince and Co. put together a near-perfect, compelling and unpredictable event. Last night's Money In The Bank pay-per-view was easily one of the best WWE events of the last 10 years and probably in the top five non-WrestleMania events of all time. And we have one match to thank for it: CM Punk vs. John Cena. The build-up to the match was off the charts: CM Punk's contract was supposedly up at [...]

OK WWE, you got me. I fell for it hook line and sinker, I actually thought that last week CM Punk had gotten away with speaking his mind about the sad state of WWE's product live on RAW. I can't believe they had me with the whole "CM Punk has been suspended" shtick. I have to [...]

With 20092s debut LP, In The Court Of Wrestling Lets , London punk-rock trio Let's Wrestle took the sloppy American guitar sound of the early-to-mid nineties and sprinkled it with their own uniquely-British sense of wit, humour and eye for useless detail. More than that though, they had tunes. Proper sparkling pop tunes; albeit tunes fully submerged in rough and raw production values and acute slackerdom. To me, Let's Wrestle are one of those bands that you just can't help falling for. Not if you're a twenty-something who's feeling a [...]

Two very, very different retrospectives on "Macho Man" Randy Savage have hit today. And both of them are fairly perfect. 1. Bill Simmons makes the case that Randy Savage basically represented everything there was about the 80s . When word broke last week that a car accident had claimed Savage, I couldn't believe how many people emailed me about it. He lasted 58 years, forever by wrestling standards, but it still felt too soon. I liked knowing Savage was out there, giving insane interviews and leaving people generally perplexed. The scope of his [...]

Let's get the sad part out of the way: Macho Man died this morning after suffering a heart attack while driving, first reported by TMZ and confirmed by the Florida Highway Patrol . His truck veered into oncoming traffic and he died from wounds suffered during the car crash. Clown if you want, but I grew up on wrestlers like Macho Man and the news is damn tough to hear. Now, let's do the good stuff and remember just how great Macho Man was. At one point in the '80s, [...]

MP3: Chuck Berry - Our Little Rendezvous This one is for you "Macho Man" Randy Savage . You're doing blow off of endless tits with the gods now. See you guys next week.

• Chuck Berry - Our Little Rendezvous

Stomp out childhood obesity with fat kids and Bey Bey. She's got it going on.

Life is easier when you compartmentalize. Keeping things separate keeps them simple. I like my wrestling in one corner and my Hip-Hop wayyyy over there over yonder and across town. When the two meet, it's never pretty yet people still try to make it work for some reason. The most recent attempt comes from the not-fake-at-all Urban Wrestling Federation. Yes, there's a wrestling federation geared to the streets, featuring a cavalcade of irrelevant rappers promoting it. We get Red Cafe, Uncle Murda, Briscoe and Gorilla Zoe talking [...]