I’ve never really cared for the Shrek films. I don’t know whether it’s the stupid accents, annoying sidekicks or the instantly-outdated pop culture references, but DreamWorks’ money-making, green oaf has yet to charm me. The same can be said for the film’s series of soundtracks.
I can safely say that the choice of pop songs [...]

After six long years The Strokes have finally re-designed their old ‘retro’ style website with a slightly newer ‘retro’ style website. Previously, after typing “www.thestrokes.com” in their internet navigator of choice, hungry fans were faced with a vintage television set with its switches cleverly replaced by the website’s menu. Thanks to Warren Fu, fans are [...]

As we all know, the internet has a bigger problem with leaky pipes than the entire Mushroom Kingdom. So it’s no surprise that the new Queens of the Stone Age record, Era Vulgaris, has been let off its chain early to run amuck and leave its mess around the blogosphere. While I can’t exactly see [...]

In a post-gig conversation with David McCormack out the front of The Vanguard last September, the ARIA award winning musician revealed his inner sweet tooth to 12MC, promising he’d email us with “a fantastic roast chicken with lemon and garlic” recipe for our under nourished, Rock ‘n’ Recipes section. But living the life of a [...]

When news broke last week that The White Stripes were shooting a “South of the border” themed video for the quasi-political romp stomp, “Icky Thump”, I didn’t know that they’d be so authentic as to give the whole thing Spanish subtitles - and who said rock ‘n’ roll can’t be educational?
Co-directed by Jack White [...]

For me, waiting for the latest Michel Gondry video is like waiting for Christmas. After weeks of reading all the rumours and official updates, I desperately hunt down all the production stills and finally, the video comes out and I am forced to watch it on a ridiculously small screen with revolting amounts of pixelation [...]

No guys, the video below is not a trailer for the straight-to-video sequel to Event Horizon, but instead the trailer for an alternate video for The Strokes’ song, “You Only Live Once”. Don’t you love the fact that we live in an age where music videos just aren’t deemed worthy of being remade, but they [...]

WELCOME TO THE BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW TWELVE MAJOR CHORDS DOT COM!
If you visit our neck of the woods regularly, then you’ve probably just noticed that things are looking little different around here. 12MC is almost one year old, and to celebrate our first birthday, we’ve decided to unwrap our present early - and share it [...]

If you’re a fan of sexy girls with a flavour for cannibalism, then this is the video for you! Brett Simon, (who’s previous video credits include “Somebody Told Me” for The Killers and a couple of Good Charlotte videos that no one reading this will care about) has just directed the video for the first [...]

When the hell did this happen? It looks as though while I was too busy obsessing over all things White Stripes and Icky Thump related, I let this baby slip through the cracks. I’m talking about “Pig”, a touching, bare-bones acoustic song, allegedly taken from Rivers Cuomo’s latest demo CD. Could it be a [...]

WARNING: This week’s T.G.I. Covers features the heavy use of stage names and frequent appearances by the offspring of successful entertainers.
Back in 2004 when Bob Dylan came to rock Detroit “Rock City”, It was a clash of stage-name titans. In the blue corner we had the legendary Robert Zimmerman (Dylan), and in the very red [...]

You can tell that whoever’s been writing the glowing Volta reviews lately either hasn’t really listened to the record, or was never a big Björk fan to begin with. It’s sad to say, but for once in my life I’m actually going to go ahead and agree with Pitchfork on this one; Volta is disappointing. [...]