Wednesday, February 22, 2006
WIN A SHITLOAD OF STUFF!!111ONELEEVENNNN!!!111!
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 I'm launching the websites biggest competition yet. $500.00 worth of CDs and other assorted goodies could be yours. That's quite a big competition, innit?
What do you have to do in order to enter the draw to win this bonanza sized competition?
Simply vote and submit your choices in The 2nd Annual IAR Readers Poll, and you are instantly in the draw.
How does one vote? Click here, fill out all the boxes (if you don't live in Australia you are not obliged to vote in those categories) and submit. And that is it. You're in the draw.
Amazing really, is it not?
If you're still not convinced, let's take a look at what is in this $500.00 Prize Pack...
RARE CD SINGLES
Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold
McFly - I Wanna Hold You
CD SINGLES
Freeform Five - No More Conversations (Mylo/Richard X Remixes)
Roger Sanchez - Turn On The Music
A Studio - S.O.S.
Delta Goodrem - A Little Too Late
Moustache - Everywhere
Moonbotica - Listen/June
Brooklyn Bounce - Sex, Bass & Rock N Roll
Spazzy's - My Boyfriends Back
Mr. Tree - Supergenius
The Casanovas - Heartbeat
ALBUMS & COMPILATIONS
4 Strings - Turn It Around
Haystak - The New South
Vicious Cuts - Mixed by John Course
Cuba Cuba
Skitz Mix 21
Kickin Hard Volume 7 (Double CD)
Christmas Chill
Next Generation - Mixed by Brisk & Ham (Double CD)
Central Energy - Next Generation (3 CD Set)
RECORD COMPANY PROMO DISCS
Wild Gold Vol. 4 (feat. 2 Unlimited, Black Box, Hocus Pocus & More)
CSR Radio & Rep Sampler (feat. Technotronic, Infernal, ATB & More)
ASS. GEAR
4 "BUSTED" Badges
1 Mr. Tree Poster
Christ on a bike, isn't that something. One of you lucky readers will win ALL OF THIS! 2 runners up will score themselves a Mr. Tree E.P and a thrown in CD Single as well.
ALL VOTES MUST BE IN BY 13TH OF MARCH 2006 AT 5:00PM AUSTRALIAN EST.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Monday, February 20, 2006
GIRLS ALOUD IN OZ... IT ON!
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 ALRIGHT, LET ME CUT TO THE CHASE.
Today in the fine nations of Australia and New Zealand, Girls Aloud's amazing single "Biology" and brilliant album "Chemistry" are released, and I urge you all to go out and fork out the required pennies for both items.
That is only, however, if you believe that pop music has a place in the Australian charts.
I am assuming that, because you're reading this, you want the same thing I, and many other Girls Aloud fans, do - Girls Aloud to do well on the Aussie charts next week. With "Biology" being the greatest pop record of all time, it really should be number #1 for years.
So, in short: buy the single and buy the album. Get your friends to buy it, promise them they won't regret it, AND ALL THAT OTHER NONSENSE.
You can also purchase the album and single online from sanity.com.au - however, do NOT purchase either from a HMV Store OR the HMV Online Site, because HMV RETAIL AND AUSTRALIAN ONLINE STORE SALES do NOT go toward ARIA chart placement.
If you wish to view a list of suitable shops to purchase Aloud material from, click here.
ALSO: Don't forget to read the intimate(ish) details of their promotional schedule in Oz over on the IAR sister website www.girlsaloudinoz.be, and also to visit the comprehensive list of phone numbers and emails of all your favourite radio stations on that very website. This way, it just makes it easier for you to request "Biology" every single day this week. Hurrah!
x IAR.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
"I love him very much and I want to marry him and he knows real music when he hears it and hes awsome"
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I sincerely offer my deepest thoughts, and my most sincerest of prayers, to this dear girls family.
I'm guessing she wont be entering the site competition then.
 Hello.
This is Ann-Margret to your right. Some of you may know her as a former Hollywood Actress (just because she is cast in the upcoming SANTA CLAUSE 3 - playing Santa's Mother In Law - does not mean you can still refer to her as a current Hollywood Actress). Some of you may also know her as the former cock-hole for Elvis Presley.
For those of you who don't know of her, ask your parents, they may even have one of the movies she did with Elvis hidden away to show you (this was back in a time where the line "did/doing a movie" was not followed by "whilst getting fucked", and we can ALL thank Pamela, Tommy, Paris and Debra Fucking Byrne for changing all that now can't we?).
Ann-Margret has starred in over 70 fillums, and god knows how many television shows as a guest. Were you, however, aware that Miss. M had quite the illustrious musical career as well?
She's had quite a few albums, and judging by the look of her discography over on the official site, it was all rather respectable - I mean for christs sake - she has her OWN 5 DISC BOX SET BEST OF COLLECTION.
Glance over the allocated pictures of her albums. Rather nice, aren't they? Ann looks a charm, stunning, and all that other crap. Songs filled with soppy love songs and a few "ditties" your parents may have attempted Go-Go Dancing to in their youth. So you can imagine my surprise when I got wind of the news Ann had once recorded a disco album.
YES. A DISCO ALBUM. CALLED "LOVE RUSH".
Unfortunately, "Love Rush" only gets a brief listing over on her official discography without a picture, unlike all her other "Long Players" that are shown off quite proudly.
Why on earth would Ann leave off something as career defining as her very own disco album? If I had my own disco album, it would be the most shown off item in my discography, and surely, if you were to have your own disco album, it would be the same case, would it not?
But then again, would either of our disco album front covers look like this?
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
?
Excuse me Ann, but it appears you've forgotten to wash your face thoroughly after the last slodge of CUM WENT FLYING INTO YOUR EYE.
Is it really any wonder why poor Ann refuses to display this albums artwork on her website, it is absolutely mortifying to look at. What were her "people" thinking when they green-lit this as the photo for the record? Were they all that coked off their heads that they didn't notice Ann was having a mild stroke? Did they simply forget Ann hadn't unplugged whatever undisclosed object someone from Paramount had stuck in her the night before? Or - and god forbid - were the remaining, left out photographs ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THE FINAL ONE?
Outrageous really, isn't it?
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Charteater
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 We're well into February and I was beginning to worry that there hadn't been many certifiably brilliant pop singles released yet. Don't get me wrong, there have been a couple, such as Madonna's "Sorry" and Girls Aloud's "Whole Lotta History", but for two months in, having only two mindblowingly outstanding pop singles just isn't good enough.
Thank the almighty heavens above then, for Nelly Retardo Furtado, who's new single "Maneater" sits comfortably up there with Madge and The Aloud's amazing contributions to the early risings of the year.
Isn't this song just... weird?! But in the most delightful way possible. Whoa, Nelly indeed, I knew that I liked Da-Tado (especially after her downright under-rated last album criminally flopped), but I didn't realize she was capable of making a record THIS good. It's being released in the U.K. and, hopefully here in Oz, on March the 6th, so mark that date into your diary as one that will entail a visit to your local CD retailer to purchase what could very well shape up to be the single of the year (Disclaimer: so far.)!
Oh, and I have updated the website TOP 50 CHART today... Nelly's in there, along with new entries from Madge, Van She, The Defence, P!NK, Pay TV and a "stack more". The page also contains details on the chart getting airplay over on our show Professional Distortion. View it in full here...
Friday, February 10, 2006
An Almighty Mix
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 I've been quite busy today, updating the IAR links page.
I've made it somewhat easier to manage (so it is easier for me to add new links to it, say, when a reader emails through with his or her website), nicer to look at and filled it with even MORE (!!!) of the greatest websites around the globe.
All your old favorites are there, NEVER FEAR!!
But, the new additions are just as ace, and I urge you all to check every single one of them out. The new sites up on our almighty links page include: Enthusiastic But Mediocre V.2 , Indie Girl & Pop Boy, Blow Up Doll, Copy, Right?, From Russia With Pop, HolyMoly, Slash Music, Catchy Tunes Of Sweden, You Tube, Girls Abroad, Glutbusters.com, Popbytes, O.C: Oxygen Chunks, Spark Pop, Tales Of Ordinary Sadness, Drax Music Forums, Music Matterz V2.0, Drowned Madonna, Madonna TV, Madonna Village, Get Your Bootleg On, Freaky Trigger and Tragic Yet Dignified JUST TO NAME A FEW. So, once again, I urge you to go check out our links page. It's quite good.
The End.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Idiot of Azkaban (+ WIN STUFF!)
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 Daniel Radcliffe, you're a dickhead.
Just before Christmas time last year, the Harry Potter star caused quite the ruckus when he claimed that ace pop group McFly weren't what they seemed. "'I know bands," he stated, "who can actually play their instruments and who write their songs."
Oh no you didn't.
McFly's response? "Well, we know actors who play more than one character. He's got his facts wrong." which was followed by Dougie announcing that "Daniel Radcliffe is a cock".
Genius.
You can only imagine how these anti-McFly sentiments from the movie star went down over on the various McForums and chat rooms across the world wide web.
StarSindy, who's various posts on one particular forum indicate she's about 3 years of age, boldly said: "Daniel Radcliffe is a fucking wanker, hopefully someone will rape him up the arse and he'll bleed lots!! FUCKING LOSER!!"
One Eleven?
But all this is only the tip of the iceberg. Our good friend (by 'good friend' we mean 'MySpace contact') James Bourne from Son Of Dork has since offered to kick Potter's head in, claiming that "He (Daniel) keeps talking about everyone else's talent but he should look at his own - he is atrocious." Fellow band member Dave Williams then went and said the word "shit" about 7 times, and we're fairly sure it was more than likely all directed at Radcliffe.
We can not begin to tell you how thrilled we are to see anything Harry Potter related being quite openly slammed. We are strong advocates for pure hatred of the book, its movies and the nasty child "stars" from hell it has spawned.
So what we're doing is encouraging you all to tell us how you feel about Harry Potter. There's something in it for you if you do, by the way. You see, we're offering quite the nice CD Singles package, thanks to Central Station.
We're giving away a set of 5 CD singles, which includes new releases from CENTRAL STATION RECORDS!!
All you have to do is email us your true, deep and dark feelings of hatred toward Harry Potter, and the one that tickles our funny bone the most, will win. Easy as that.
In the immortal words of our friends down at CFBgoespop, IT ON!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
"Girls Aloud: They're the UK Bardot, aren't they?"
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 No Tiffani Wood, they are not.
If you pick up a copy of the dire Australian SMASH HITS magazine for the month of March, there will be a set of about four surprises. Firstly, quite the nice Girls Aloud poster. Second, a "revealing" interview with the Girls, which may or may not entail details of their "fave colorzz LOLL". Then the third and fourth surprises find themselves on pages 54 and 55.
You know, we can handle Smash Hits giving the mighty Aloud's "Chemistry" album 2 out of 5 stars. We can handle - albeit rather aggressively - them stating that the songs on the album are "hollow and badly produced".
But what we cannot handle is Smash Hits Magazine telling their readers that " Biology lacks punch and any real pulling power".
Oh no you didn't.
On the same page, Lee Harding's album is given Album of the month, with 5 stars, The Living End with the same, Lindsay Lohan's album of songs to listen to when your dad leaves town and neglects you because he'd rather fuck a pack of dirty whores and snort his way into an early grave than spend a moment longer with you got 4 stars, P.O.D did as well, and the Arctic Monkeys scored a 4 star rating too. For fuck sakes, even The Notorious B.I.G. got 3 stars and he's fucking been dead for the last 5 years. Lord Almighty in Jimmy Choo Heels, are we STILL reviewing dead peoples albums these days??
But the madness does not end there.
Over in the singles section, Tiffani, Tiffany, Tiffani Wood, former member of Bardot, (who we absolutely love to death, but we just really wish she hadn't of messed with our dear girls) gets put to work on reviewing 5 of the latest singles, and has to rate them as a "Smash!" or as "Trash!". Pharrell's boring "Angel", Dannii's so-so "Perfection", Arctic Monkeys dancefloor one, and, get this, Magilla Gorilla's PAULINI'S "ROUGH DAY" all got the "Smash!" of approval from Tiffani Wood, former member of Bardot.
But "Biology" rubs Tiff, former member of Bardot, up the wrong way. "The song sounds weird and boring", she says "One of the notes really sounds off key, it's bizarre!" What is so bizarre about a song with the most perfect verses, the most annihilatingly good chorus that sounds like ABBA's finest moments on a shitload of cocaine? We're curious, why is brilliant pop regarded as bizarre? Tiffani, former member of Bardot, then continues her outrageous assault on pop music by claiming "There's something a bit wrong about the clip too."
Oh no you didn't.
The clip, one of the most brilliant pieces of tongue-in-cheek music film ever created, is about 600 times better than the production of Tiffani's last video clip, a clip which may have very well had 35 cents spent on it and filmed in Tiffani's hallway back home. View it here and be the judge for yourself. Again, we love Tiffani, former member of Bardot, and have been one of the few pushers online and in the media circuit of her solo stuff (because it really IS brilliant etc), but phrases about pot being black kettles or whatever spring to mind when she goes tramping on about video clips being bad.
Tiff then manages to assault pop music several more times in the space of 100 words, labeling Girls Aloud as the UK's version of Bardot (next people will be claiming that Amity Dry is Australia's answer to Madonna if this comparative madness from hell continues in this vain). And we're not even going to get started on the claim that their first single was called "Sounds of the Underground" either.
If "Biology" doesn't set the charts alight in Australia as it bloody well should, then the only people we have to blame are the staff of Smash Hits Magazine in Australia, and everyone associated with Bardot and the first ever Australian Popstars TV show.
It seems we'll then have several scores to settle with Jackie O.
It's quite ironic though, isn't it, that Smash Hits, a rag that's meant to be about pop music, really stopped giving a shit about pop music a good 10 years ago.
NB: This article has only been online for an hour and we've somehow managed to receive some angry hate mail from a Tiffani Wood fan. We would like to express that we adore Tiffani Wood, former member of Bardot, here at IAR, but we simply disagree with her taste in pop music. Tiffani, if you're reading, we love you "etcetera".
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
We're feeling better now, and something's "cooking"...
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 ...so while we get working on warming up our 'rusty pipes', why don't you waste a bit of time by joining the IAR forum, and maybe even making some posts on it?!!? It's been online for quite some time, but sadly only seems to boast 59 members.
You could also head on over to the official IAR MySpace, er, space, and have a listen to the Sugababes' new single "Red Dress", with Amelle (who we are madly in love with) on vocals. Hurrah!!
After you've done that, head on over to the 1001 Greatest Pop Songs website, which we're a contributor of - and read the top 20 so far. Those crazy gals from CFBgoespop have been on a musical roll and put in a lot of effort within the site, so go over there and enjoy it on a severe level, for goodness sake!
Back in a couple of days with an explosion of sorts.
xx IAR
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Burnt Day Out
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 To say that we're only just beginning to feel normal after Sunday's Big Day Out would be an understatement.
To say that we're still feeling quite un-human and, for the record, quite fucking shithouse, rundown and very sore, would probably be more on the mark.
But by god it was worth it.
Once again, our place of employment sent us on one of those "jobs" that involved us partaking in some crazy form of "reviewing"... and the job was at this years Melbourne Big Day Out.
So, what did we learn from our Big Day... er, out?
- M.I.A. is out-bloody-standing live...
- She's also an absolute living legend for asking half the boiler room to join her for a dance onstage, before the organizers turned the music off and threatened us with room closure if we didn't get off stage (yes, we crawled our way up and even got a kiss from her!).
- Tripping over and hitting your head on an Amplifier should probably warrant a visit to the First Aid tent. But if this happens when M.I.A is on, the chances of following through with said idea are extremely slim.
- The amount of sweat that has oozed out of our bodies in our 20something years of existence could not rival the amount of sweat that came flooding out of us in the bloody Boiler Room during Vitalic's live set or during M.I.A's performance.
- Vitalic is a god, and "La Rock 01" could very well be the greatest dance track of all time.
- The White Stripes are officially cemented into our hearts as seriously talented and mindblowingly amazing artists.
- 2ManyDJs are as brilliant live as they are on their CD's. Hearing Olivia Newton John's "Physical" in the boiler room
whilst on some seriously brilliant enhancements, will forever stand as the most amazing highlight of our lives*
- Iggy Pop and The Stooges are hilarious and fucking glorious all the same.
- Dr Alban's "Sing Hallelujah" sounds quite good to this day.
- Sunscreen is our friend. Too bad we were not paying much attention to our friend during the hottest parts of the day.
- Dancing on grass is probably not the best idea for sore ankles.
- Security aren't big fans of people with Media Passes.
- Sunstroke is a horror that lasts for days.
*NOT REALLY.
So there you go. All in all we had a great day, but we're paying for it and will continue to pay for it until our doctor agrees to prescribe us some serious valium. So do excuse our tardiness for the remainder of the week - there will probably be barely any updates (and if there are, they wont be very good)...
Meanwhile, here are some lovely photos. (Top L-R: Vitalic, Vitalic, M.I.A. Bottom L - R: M.I.A, White Stripers x 2)
  
  
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