Rolling Stone reports that Motley Crue have drawn on their bestseller 'The Dirt' for inspiration for their first studio album in eleven years.

Sigur Ros are the latest band to feature on an undaground bodyboard flick, this time it is the Waldron Brothers film 'Insert Name Here'. Below is the theatrical trailer featuring sick Oz airman action and the Sigur. Sick!

MTV's new comedy show Fur TV is the latest must see for Sound Waves.

Burma is underwater, Iraq is in flames, Tibet is under iron rule, China is suffering from a massive earthquake but what did the young people of Ireland take to the streets of Dublin to protest about recently? The illegal status of spliff.

The Frames got their name from the fact that Oscar Winner Glen Hansard was a dab hand at fixing bicycles and his home was, as a result, littered with old bicycle frames. Which leads us neatly into...

Sound Waves was too busy to catch the legend that is 'Dewey Cox' on its initial release but thanks to DVD we spent the night trying to breathe we were laughing so much.

Sound Waves is back after a long sojourn, here are 6 classic albums beloved of Sound Waves from the period 1985 - 1987 that may, or may not, be usual suspects for other listeners.

The screechy one has caused consternation in Chinese officialdom in advance of the Olympics after chanting 'Tibet, Tibet' during a concert in Shanghai.

What a difference a war makes. In 1997, Hollywood was pumping out one 'hoo haa' militaristic army movie after another and looking back it is interesting to see what was included...

Little Steve Van Zandt once got some of his buddies such as Lou Reed and Bono to pledge that they ain't gonna play Sun City. In the aftermath of Steven Spielberg's withdrawal from the Beijing Olympics, is it time to encourage Ireland's athletes to do the same to the Bird's Nest Stadium?

Paul Westerburg, the creative font behind The Replacements, has long been a favourite of Sound Waves. When we got our hands on his album of songs for the animated movie 'Open Season' we were glad to see his muse was intact.

Sound Waves is back for another year and we begin with our first surf music recommendation of 2008, Seasick Steve, an overnight success after a lifetime of music.

Just got this dude's first album and its all grits and honey. Here's a clip of him on the road with some commentary from elder muddy boots balladeer Joe Ely, Ryan is all hat and all cattle. Watch this guy go

Bell X1 front man David Geraghty is getting played in the Woodie on the way to the break.

Sound Waves wishes to congratulate Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, who are nominated in the Best Original Song category for 'Falling Slowly' from 'Once'.

Surf Movie producers Globe have partnered with DJ Sasha to produce a tripping new surf DVD for watching during or after an all night party.

Surfing continues its hip revival as MTV airs a new show on sexy, photogenis surfers in Maui.

As Sound Waves makes it to the end of our inaugural year, we look back in a ramshackle manner at the events which shaped this blog's niche interest in 2007.

You might think that surfing, taking place mainly in hot countries that don't understand the concept of snow, does not have a take on Christmas, you would be wrong. Here are some of our favorite Christmas themed vids.

Douglas Adams once wrote that the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything was 42. Now a surfer says he has found the answer, for real.

Well, here it is, my surf music top seven of 2007.

Ok, ok, it does sound grandiose but basically, ever since I started on Cluas none of my submissions to the end of year polls have got a look in because basically I don't listen to Phantom FM (apart from a deadly dull two week research period), I don't much care for indie rock and I don't read the NME.

Phoebe, the fictional chantuese from hit sitcom 'Friends', famously performed her unique brand of music in the plush environment of the Manhattan coffee house 'Central Perk'. Now it appears that she may have been ahead of the curve.

Seven years ago Sound Waves attended a music industry convention in France where DRM was the buzzword de jour. Today, its all change as Apple and Amazon slug it out over song offerings without copy protection.

The Radiohead launch on October 10th is going to be watched very carefully by their old label.