Metromixed! Looking For Horror? Two Words: Chris Cornell.
Happy Friday the 13th! Now are you ready to be scared out of your underwear? Chris Cornell just made a crunk album. I am not kidding. That horror awaits you […]
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Watchmen Tunes Merge Comic, Cash
The slightly good news is that some of the music that made it into the film, but not the comic, didn’t make it to the soundtrack. The bad news? Some lousy songs made both the film and the soundtrack, but never made the comic at all.
Metromixed! Black Lips, The Whip, The Prodigy Make Noise
Man, I’ve been on a reviewing tear lately, especially for my pals at Metromix, who publish my love online and in the papers. From the retro garage thrash of Black […]
Tearing Down The Century of the Self With And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
So for the band’s latest effort, named after Adam Curtis’ The Century of Self, I went on the blitz for Wired, Metromix and Filter.
Vetiver’s Dream Folk Grows On You
Call if freak folk, call it nu-folk or just call it whatever the folk you want. But mellowed, measured folk is back with a vengeance. Andy Cabic’s Vetiver is one […]
J.J. Cale Still Has It
This laid-back guitarist gave Eric Clapton “Cocaine,” and he gave it to him “After Midnight.” But can he still roll the rock now that he’s in his ’70s and the […]
A Heart-to-Heart With Heartless Bastards
Back to Socal from snowy NorCal at last. Found some killer road and snowboarding music. This rocker from Dayton named Erika Wennerstrom and her band the Heartless Bastards. She is […]
Did Paul McCartney Ride The Colbert Bump To Coachella?
Coincidence? Let’s weigh the evidence.
Crappy Music, Not Iran, Is Our Enemy
Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran? What the hell for? Because it makes awesome space rock? Seriously, what has this band ever done to us? Other than turn out one […]
You Should Already Know: Mercury Rev
A trip down Mercury Rev’s memory lane proves to be an uneven romp.
I Apologize, Juana Molina
If Molina continues to impress like this, she’s going to demand her own terminology.
Dalek’s Industrial-Hop Tactics Takes Brains
People these days don’t seem to understand that hip-hop is much more diverse than the stoopid shit you see on MTV, when it’s showing music videos, that is. Its palette […]
Franz Ferdinand Parties Tonight. And Every Other Night Too, To Be Honest
Back to the grind, folks. And the grind always needs an endgame, usually one occurring on the weekend with its own dance soundtrack. Speaking of, Franz Ferdinand is all about […]
R.I.P. Ron Asheton, Rock Influential
Shining lights of the world are leaving us at what feels like an exponential rate. It seems like I’ve been covering a death or burial almost every day. Today I […]
Best Of 2008, The Playlist
What a year. My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver returned, Juana Molina and Marnie Stern spacetracked my brain strange, the playlist goes on. Speaking of here it is. Some of the […]
R.I.P. Listening Post (For Now)
Well, the economy did not leave my life unscathed, although I have worked hard to keep it that way. Wired decided to shutter its music blog Listening Post, which I […]
Pixies + Dali = ?
li news fit to print, but no love for the ears?
No worries. This fun mashup of the Pixies’ “Debaser” with Dali and Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou ought to tide us over until Destino and Banderas’ Dali film hit the screens.
Jesus Forgives The Beatles
It’s nice that you finally got around to forgiving John Lennon for boasting that The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, who we admit has a birthday coming up. But you might have wanted to pick a better time than the 40th anniversary of The White Album.
Best Music of 2008? You Tell Me
from Femi Kuti to Deerhunter to Juana Molina and onward, there’s a lot of best to best.
Post Up! At Last, Loop Returns
The underrated guitar army Loop is coming back into print, after years hidden beneath the afterglow of My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver and The Jesus and Mary Chain. If you want […]
All Hail Curumin’s Tropicalia-Hop!
On the hunt for exceptional music? Check out Curumin, who has delivered one of the finest efforts of the year in Japan Pop Show. It’s a cultural and sonic bleed […]
Ryan Adams Changes Name, Game
I haven’t been following the career of this fine fan of country, roots, pop and rock, because I figured he was doing just fine, thanks. I’ve been seeing his name […]
Have The Kaiser Chiefs Lost Their Heads?
It’s good to keep the tempo up. Crowds need to be motivated, and minds need to be energized, especially on Election Day. So I figured posting a heads-up on my […]
Bloc Parties With Electronics
You have to wait with buzz bands. You got to see if they can stick around after the hype has worn off. Which is another way of saying I don’t […]
Rest in Pieces, Gravediggaz
Long before popcorn torture porn owned the mallrats or the Pentagon started contracting packs of robots to hunt down non-cooperative humans, Gravediggaz owned horrorcore.