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We already know you’re having a party for Halloween. We know you’ve covered your home in spider webs, candles, blacklight-reactant posters and ghouley, ghosty things from Rite Aid. Before you do anything else brilliant, we’re here to make extra sure you’re prepared to give your guests the creep fest they’re looking for ... read more |
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Overdue on taming his unmanageable mane and donning signature makeup that now masks instead of enhances his 49 years, Smith is rounded out by drummer Jason Cooper, bassist Simon Gallup and guitarist Prol Thompson – who has outdone himself with black eye shadow and draw-on cornrows - for the third time around. ... read more |
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Noel Gallagher has presented the official list of top 10 bands of all time, per Oasis. The criteria are strict: No solo artists allowed. No collectives allowed. No female artists allowed. Wait, so does this mean Blondie is not a band? What about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? I doubt Joan Jett and the Blackhearts would take this lightly ... read more |
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Combining forces with producer Mark Needham, who has sat behind the soundboard with the Killers, Gran Ronde is more than your late-night dive bar band. They’re your extremely late-night, hanging-around-at-Burrito-King-with-two-chicks, too-wasted-to-high-five band, at least when they’re not performing. When they are performing, they’re just fucking sweet ... read more |
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My dream girl and Woody Allen favorite Scarlett Johansson is back in the forefront of musical conversation. The gorgeous blonde has released a seven song iTunes only EP not-so-creatively titled Live Sessions. The downloadable disc features five songs off her recent debut CD of Tom Waits’ covers Anywhere I Lay My Head, as well as two renditions of other people’s work ... read more |
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The Cure will make good the promise to shell out their as-of-yet-titled 13th studio album, by releasing a single the 13th of each month from now until it’s September 13 release date. How very ironic, morbid and pseudo-goth of you, emo-founding father, Robert Smith ... read more |
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I’m hearing a song I recognize, no, a song I love. This is supposed to be Joy Division’s “Shadowplay,” but it is all wrong – the guitar is jangly and happy, the drums sound like fucking She Wants Revenge, the singing is nice, perfectly in key and so, so tepid. It is evidently some hipster-pop candy band inflicting their perverted interpretation of a classically awesome song on me, and I am not happy ... read more |
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In keeping track of festival announcements since rumblings started making their way on to the net in January, I’ve been waiting for that “ah-ha” moment to mark my calendar. It seems I’ve finally stumbled upon one that could prove this summer concert season is not entirely lost on one certain master of sleepy acoustic monotony ... read more |
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