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If you’re serious about music, you will appreciate the massive influence The Doors have had since their formation in 1965. With seminal tracks like ‘Light My Fire’ (1967), ‘The End’ (1967) and ‘Riders on the Storm’ (1971), and their pioneering psychedelic stage shows, they helped to take music in a whole new direction. The band’s [...]

Snoop Dogg never ceases to amaze us. He always seems to be in the news for one reason or another, and more often than not, it’s because he’s done something completely crazy or he’s rubbed the law up the wrong way. Not so long back, Snoop put a video out on YouTube, as he frequently [...]

Remember At the Drive-In? Wild hair, big sideburns, raging guitar riffs, piercing vocals and nothing short of epic tracks. If not, don’t worry – it’s been a long eleven years since we last saw them together, but perhaps this will jog your memory. “Aaaahh, At the Drive-In”, we here you cry. Well, for those of [...]

Politically conscious experimental rock demigods to the enlightened few, self-indulgent gloom-peddlers to the cerebrally-stunted masses, there is no band quite like Radiohead. We always look forward to seeing what they come up with next – the journey from their 1993 debut Pablo Honey to their 2011 release The King of Limbs spans a mind-boggling range [...]

We’re huge Bowie fans here at 8Ball, so today, being the great man’s birthday, we thought we’d dedicate a post to him. At 65 Bowie is semi-retired, yet his music remains as popular today as it ever was. He hasn’t released a record since his album Reality back in 2003, yet his extensive back catalogue [...]

Britain has spoken and much to our delight, Simon Cowell and his X Factor machine failed to make it to the top of the charts for this year’s Christmas number one. Anything that wipes that smug grin from Cowell’s greedy face makes us happy! And even better still, it was the Miltary Wives Choir with [...]

R Kelly has announced that he’s seeking investment to produce another 32 chapters of his concept “hip hopera” Trapped in the Closet – quite possibly the best news we’ve heard all year. If you’re not already acquainted with Trapped in the Closet, you should really take a long hard look at yourself. You definitely need [...]