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Album Review: Spinal Tap – Back From The Dead

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CoS remembers the year that was 2009

By Alex Young on December 31st, 2009

Before we turn the page on the 2000s, we wanted to take one more look at the year that was the last 365 days.

Check Out: Media Potluck’s Holiday Feast Volume 1 (2008)

By CoS Staff on December 23rd, 2009

As a genre, Christmas music is very limited. It takes a lot of creativity to create a truly stand-out holiday song. Throughout the years, many brave and artful souls have undertaken the challenge, either to render the cliches warm and heartfelt again, or simply to turn the whole concept on its head.

Album Review: Spinal Tap – Back From The Dead

By Lloyd Poast on July 13th, 2009

1984 wasn’t nearly the dark image of government control that George Orwell envisioned in his 1949 masterpiece, and although he created The Party and Big Brother, not even Orwell’s flamboyant imagination could have conceived the very real, over-the-top fashions and sounds of the eighties… or the lovable metalheads that were Spinal Tap.

List ‘Em Carefully: Top 10 Fake Bands

By Dan Caffrey on June 24th, 2009

They’re our favorite bands that never really existed…

Spinal Tap reunion results in new album!

By Charles Poladian on May 9th, 2009

It turns out that “This is Spinal Tap” resurgence won’t only consist of a tour. On June 16th, the star-studded actor/musician trio that is Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer will release a brand new studio album as Spinal Tap – nearly 17 years after the release of their last effort, 1992′s Break Like [...]

Spinal Tap goes “Unwigged & Unplugged”

By Alex Young on March 3rd, 2009

A new Spinal Tap album and tour…what it is it, 1984? Some 17 years after the release of the semi-fictional outfit’s second studio album, Break Like the Wind, actors musicians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer will resurrect Spinal Tap for another go around. As we first told you last month, the metal heads [...]

Spinal Tap talks next real record

By Allison Franks on February 5th, 2009

Ever since the hilarious mockumentary This is Spinal Tap came out in 1984, the fake metal band Spinal Tap has been all the rave. From albums to benefit concerts, action figures to Guitar Hero appearances, Spinal Tap’s been keeping all their true (and fictional) fans happy for over two decades now…and they can’t help but [...]