Popular Phoenix Blooze Bar Burns

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Guitarist Aaron “Ump Ump” McCollum and The Earps played a show May 30, 2009 at The Blooze Bar. ©Temple Stark/Soundlust.com ABC 15 reports that the Blooze Bar, burned to the ground last night after closing time in what appears to be an electrical accident. (It’s just down the street from where I’m sitting now.) Owners [...]

Levy’s Open Letter: To Artists Boycotting Arizona

[UPDATE: June 29, SoundLust e-mailed Sound Strike the day this article was originally published, June 24, asking for any other bands that had joined the boycott, since the site had not been updated since May 25, the day they launched. We did not receive a reply, but today the boycott group announced Nine Inch Nails [...]

World Cup’s Official Theme Song By Shakira

Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) – Shakira (Colombian global popstar) and Freshly Ground (African fusion band from the World Cup 2010 host country, South Africa, with a new album Radio Africa out last month). The song revamps a traditional Congolese song (English lyrics after the jump below) The World Cup is the globe’s greatest [...]

Reznor’s New Project, How To Destroy Angels, Coming Down

You can hear new Trent Reznor songs June 1. This month has brought a whirlwind of news about a new Trent Reznor music vehicle, How To Destroy Angels. Whether it’s intended as more than a side project in a post-NIN era – remains to be seen. One sign that it’s going to be around awhile [...]