…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…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with LOOSE FUR, which is Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche with multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke. Drag City was smart enough to post the video for “Hey Chicken” at You…
Read MoreBUZZCOCKS guitarist Steve Diggle talks to Pitchfork about the birth of punk, musical legacies, and the last days of Kurt Cobain: “So that New York sound inspired us. It's almost like what…
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