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Video – R.E.M. "Supernatural Superserious"
The last decade hasn’t been easy for us R.E.M. fans. The sting of watching what was once the coolest band in the world (those of us on the long end of 25 remember this distinction) release two overly slick, largely patchy efforts and fade into the kind of band that only elicits a glazed look from your fresh out of college co-workers has been a real drag. I haven’t always been sure that the band carrying on after Bill Berry retired read more »
Bob Mould – More Important Than Most
Just imagine you are a confused, angry, overweight, closeted gay man living in the Reagan era playing in basements and hating everyone and everything and you’re only solace is playing music as mind shreddingly loud as possible. You might for a second realize what it used to be like to live in Bob Mould’s head. Can you imagine a band like Husker Du read more »
Do You Like Rock Music?
One could easily argue that Brighton’s British Sea Power is a band out of time. Seemingly gone are the days of bands that acquire small, borderline obsessive, contained sets of fans that exist in a bubble of music and sleeve art, dissecting lyrics like they were Yeats. In today’s Indie scene any band with a hint read more »
Lemonheads @ High Line | NYC: Punks Vs. Nostalgists – Everybody Wins
It was nice to finally see The Lemonheads with Karl Alvarez (Bass) and Bill Stevenson (Drums) in tow. In 2006 Karl and Bill got together with Evan Dando and put out a record that sounded more like the Descendents (or maybe more like ALL to be fair) than the sweetly sour read more »
Pants Yell! – A Polite Conversation With A Proper Pop Group
About a month ago a friend of mine sent me an MP3 of a song called “Two French Sisters” by a band he had seen the night before. Normally I counter his enthusiasm with an (unfortunate) ambivalence, but as soon as the song started playing I felt an immediate connection read more »
Moz Pens Scathing Missive To NME
Morrissey has responded to the NME with a beautifully written retort that not only puts waste to their new poke around the “Is Moz a racist thug?” blather but also to the NME itself as a tired, soulless version of the paper that he and countless others once deemed their musical bible read more »
British Sea Power: "Death To False Metal!"
What side are you on? That’s the question British Sea Power are asking. It’s pretty valid I think. I mean wouldn’t you want to know if your new girlfriend prefers The Bravery over The Stooges? Do your friends line up at the Corporate behemoth Coffee(tm) chain or do they lovingly suck at the read more »
Moz Under Attack From NME; Signs With Polydor
Morrissey and the NME have had their ups and downs. No other media outlet was as supportive of the legendary Mancunian during the days The Smiths and the early solo years. One would almost have had the impression that the London based paper was a Moz fanzine at times read more »
Shotter's Nation
All of the tabloid fodder surrounding Pete Doherty makes it very easy to ignore his records and focus on his drug habit and problems with the law. It is surely ironic that a lifestyle that we choose to glamorize in some, we levy scorn at in others. Is it a commentary on the dirty secret of conservatism in today’s indie rock read more »
Drugging EP
Although the mainstream music media will tell you that Punk was a revolutionary blip in the late 70′s that quickly went the way of the Dodo until High School kids all over the world embraced the sludgy sounds of 90′s Seattle, we really know that America has always had a thriving, prolific, severely read more »
