BELLE & SEBASTIAN and the NEW PORNOGRAPHERS played Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club Monday night, but you can stream it from NPR now (in Real and Windows formats), as well as an interview…
Read MoreBROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: The Canadian collective played the World Cafe, which is now streaming from NPR. DJ Monster Mo has YouTubed the video for “7/4 Shoreline,” which I really like for breaking…
Read More…AND THE OSCARS WENT to these folks. Crash upset Brokeback Mountain — screenwriter Roger L. Simon voted for Paul Haggis' screenplay while ripping it: “(D)espite the author's fake values and absurd vision…
Read MoreI won’t be blogging the Oscars or the pre-show, though I’ll certainly have comments on Monday. However, if you want to follow along with others without having to get dressed up for…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:MUSICAL TIMEWASTER: In November, Virgin Records had people identifying 75 bands in a picture. Now the challenge is to pick out songs in a video, which is much more…
Read MoreARCTIC MONKEYS bassist Andy Nicholson notes that their success would probably seem stranger to them had it not been so immediate: “This is our first album and we don't know any better…
Read MoreTHE EAMES ERA: I kept meaning to mention this Louisiana-based pop (in a good way) band after it got good write-ups at Tiny Mix Tapes and Glide magazine last Fall. The Center…
Read MoreRYAN ADAMS: An Aquarium Drunkard is killing music by posting two unreleased Adams albums, 48 Hours and The Suicide Handbook. Turns out he already posted a “lost” Whiskeytown album, Those Weren't The…
Read MoreNOTE: This is the second review for Amber Taylor's Blog Book Club. Welcome, readers… take your shoes off and stay a while! If you're on the home page, the usual stuff for…
Read MoreDON KNOTTS, best known for his quintuple-Emmy-winning portrayal of Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show,died of lung cancer Feb. 24 at age 81. Successive generations would know him from movies like…
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