ART BRUT is kicking off their first US tour at SXSW. You can — and should — stream two of the band's best at MySpace. Now. Use the standalone player if you…
Read MoreBROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: Kevin Drew is inteviewed in his bathtub about the pros and cons of the digitial age, sometime-bandmate Leslie Feist (“the hardest working person in show business”), America and the…
Read MoreSCOTT McCAUGHEY: His current supergroup, The Minus 5, has a new album coming on February 7th… and a tour. (After Scott finishes playing a UK tour with with Robyn Hitchcock — and…
Read MoreGARY “ELVIS” SCHEPERS UPDATE: Pate frontman Jon Pratt and wife Naomi drove 14 hours and endured a Chicago snowstorm to attend one of the week-long series of benefit concerts featuring a veritable…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:WILSON PICKETT — that wicked, wicked Pickett — died of a heart attack at 64. As a teenager, Pickett formed a gospel music group called the Violinaires which toured…
Read MoreBLAKE SENNETT talks about recording his side project The Elected, which is dropping the same day as the solo album from his Rilo Kiley partner, Jenny Lewis: “I guess Jenny's Gene Simmons.…
Read MoreROBERT POLLARD: Newsday's Glenn Gamboa writes: “On his new solo album, From a Compound Eye, Pollard reconnects with the quirkiness of his earlier work without losing the musical momentum he generated with…
Read MoreARCTIC MONKEYS: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not gets a perfect ten from NME: “Essentially this is a stripped-down, punk rock record with every touchstone of Great British Music…
Read MoreGARY “ELVIS” SCHEPERS UPDATE: The New Duncan Imperials, who previously played with the tubaist and soundman in The Service, join the crowd doing benefit concerts to cover healthcare costs associated with his…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: Bugs. Cute. Potentially addictive.THE SPINTO BAND is releasing a new single. I've only mentioned them once before, but they did turn up on a number of “best…
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