ROBERT POLLARD has allowed his first serious post-GbV album, From A Compound Eye, to leak all over the 'net. Maisonneuve magazine's Frank Smith writes: “What strikes me most about the album is…
Read MoreON THE PITCHFORK: A boffo review for the power pop complilation Yellow Pills and a list of indie rock songs about God. ALSO: Brooklyn Vegan has discovered that Pitchfork is beta-testing an…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: FlySui: “He who can catch flies with chopsticks can accomplish anything!”THE HOLD STEADY may be getting more conventional on their the forthcoming Separation Sunday disc (out May…
Read MoreGO, JOHNNIE, GO, GO, GO: After apprenticing with blues masters like Muddy Waters and Albert King on the club scene, Johnnie Johnson teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like “Roll Over Beethoven”…
Read MoreBRENDAN BENSON talks to the Boston Globe about his new disc, The Alternative to Love, (which I dig) and his forthcoming project with Jack White: ''I hang out with people like Jack…
Read MoreIRON AND WINE: Sam Beam's most recent disc under the name Iron and Wine, the Woman King EP, got a good writeup on the Pitchfork in February. I just got around to…
Read MoreWE HAVE A NEW SERVER, thanks to our trusty administrator, Lance. So we hope that the site will not be as slow as it was the past couple of weeks. We do…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:FRIDAY TIME-WASTER: Whizzball, from the Discovery Channel for Kids.KATHLEEN EDWARDS makes the cover of Now magazine in Toronto, which must feel nice to an artist not given much support…
Read More[Note: If the site has seemed a little slow lately, you should know that our administrator Lance is upgrading our server over the next couple of weeks to handle increased demand. Thanks…
Read MoreNEIL ARMSTRONG, MUDDY WATERS AND NIRVANA are among 50 recordings being added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. The discovery of a previously unknown recording by jazz masters Thelonious Monk…
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