What do you get if you take the bassist from Led Zeppelin, the guitarist from the Queens of the Stone Age and the drummer from Nirvana and stick them in a room together? Them Crooked Vultures is the most anticipated super group this year. The idea was originally hinted at in an interview with Dave Grohl in 2005. The band has been sporadically touring since August and there self-titled debut album is due out later this month (16 November). If the first single and other leaked videos are anything to go by, Them Crooked Vultures are going to go viral.
Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and the Bay Area's Boots Riley from the radical hip-hop crew the Coup have teamed up to create the funkadelic politically-charged rap metal band Street Sweeper Social Club . The band took their super cool guitar riffs and sick rhymes on tour with Jane's Addiction and bad boys Nine Inch Nails, and now they've released their self-titled debut album. Totally funky and bad ass!
The latest iteration of this cool fighting series is almost upon us. The new Fight Night is slicker, quicker and better looking than its predecessor. Fight Night has an improved physics engine and gameplay creating an even more realistic boxing experience.
If the last one is anything to go by this game is going to be a classic! You can play single player, the online championship or invite your mates round for a pint and a fight!
The unique Grammy award winning act of the Mars Volta have been creating experimental chaos with technical brilliance since 2001. The Mars Volta's previous albums have contained masses of energy and have always been a twisted adventure into a new direction.
The lead singer said after the last album that the next one would be acoustic. Octahedron isn't quite acoustic, although it is the Mars Volta's quietest and calmest album yet. It has been described as experimentation with mellowness and restraint.
Celebrate the new cool mutation and get the new album - Octahedron - out Tuesday.
OnLive is a cool tech company that has turned the gaming world on its head at the recent Game Developer's Conference. OnLive has announced a cloud-based gaming service to go-live in the autumn that doesn't require the gamer to own the latest and greatest computer hardware.
All the games are streamed from their super computers to your PC or Mac. Since all the grunt work is done by their super computers almost any computer will do. OnLive will also be releasing a console that does the same thing for your television and is rumoured to be priced less than a Wii.
There is nothing better than free music, especially hot unreleased stuff from Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails & Street Sweeper. The NIN/JA 2009 Tour Sampler is a cool EP available free from these awesome bands. This includes tracks from Street Sweeper who are the brand new rap rock super group featuring Tom Morello and Boots Riley.
Street Fighter IV is not just a game, it's a piece of 90s pop culture with a 21st century gloss. How many other games can claim to have inspired both an indie band (Hadouken) and a rubbish Jean-Clause Van Damme movie? Frankly, you'd have to be some sort of weirdo not to want to play this cool game...
Guy Ritchie's 2008 comeback! Rocknrolla is a confident comedy thriller packed with style and energy, memorable characters, swagger and excitement from start to finish. If you didn't see it in the cinema, go out and get the DVD.