Santi White (the one known to the world as Santigold) has managed to keep her head in the game as she headed back into the studio to create the follow-up to her wildly-successful self-titled debut album. Continue Reading...
Speaking of anticipated new albums, The Strokes new album is due out tomorrow, 22 March 2011. To put it mildly, Angles [Amazon] is freaking everyone out. Continue Reading...
If power pop is really not your thing, you're probably in the wrong spot. To my excitement, it happens to be the thing of Vancouver, BC darlings Mother Mother whose third studio album, Eureka, is due for release on 15 March worldwide. Continue Reading...
Most of the time, I don't post press releases. You can file Shonen Knife under "bands I love so much I'll break the rules for", but anyways I'm super busy today yo --
Ichiban (Number one) in the world (Candidly, it is however Kakkoii (Cool) without affectation.)
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Last year, I procrastinated heavily. I think there were a lot of good records that came out the last couple of years, but I started to think that for every record that came out, there was an equal number of these "best-of" lists being bandied about. At first I thought, "Wow, it's finally happened. Everyone's a music critic." Then, with this pervasive thought entrenched in my gourd, I started reading these other lists before making my own.
I suddenly felt small.
So deadlines for the "best of 2007" rolled around, and I was in a tailspin, dogged by ...
(Ed. Note: I'm reposting this with updated information, so if it looks like you've read this, you have -- but now you can go buy the record)
I'm so sick and tired of all the bullshit, aren't you?
I am so tired of being force-fed the idea that clowning on a style that you used to do is supposed to be clever and cool. Weezer's completely over-hyped and under-delivering 2008 release, aka the Red Album, is getting one mention in this column and one only: every time you see another article hyping Weezer, remember that there's a conspiracy out ...
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MSNBC is reporting that a lear jet containing former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and one of Hollywood's favorite deejays, DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) crashed early this morning near Columbia, SC.
Four people were killed in the crash, identified as Charles Still, 25 of Los Angeles, Chris Baker (best known as Travis Barker's Publicist), 29, and the two pilots, Sarah Lemmon, 31, and James Bland, 52. Witnesses on the scene indicated that at the time of the crash, both Goldstein and Barker were seen fleeing the wreckage engulfed in flames from head to ...
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