Spark is a Diamond - Try This On For Size
Wednesday April 30, 2008
Hardcore is not often the music one thinks of when thinking of innovative music styles, and yet it seems like hardcore has, over the past few years, been one of ... Read More
At the Warped Tour, the best seats go to folks with big hearts (and possibly deep pockets)...
Tuesday April 29, 2008
Anti-Flag wants you to help pick their next tour mates!
Thursday April 24, 2008
What goes into choosing an opening band for a tour? Sometimes, with a smaller headliner, the opener is a local band chosen to open in each city. Sometimes they are ... Read More
YouTubery: Jane's Addiction and Steer Clear
Thursday April 24, 2008
Just in case you missed MySpace broadcast of the Jane’s Addiction performance (with the original lineup) on last night’s NME Awards USA, the first videos have hit YouTube.
Granted, at times ... Read More
NME gets it right - finally, a decent reason for an awards show!
Wednesday April 23, 2008
If you’re not doing anything tonight and you’re in the mood to watch a show on your computer, you could do worse than catch the first-ever NME Awards USA, which ... Read More
MP3 Spotlight - Barry Adamson
Tuesday April 22, 2008
Barry Adamson is a cool cat and a bad man (and by “bad,” you know I mean “good”), and he’s been around for the long haul without ever seeming to ... Read More
Record Store Day - A Day To Celebrate!
Friday April 18, 2008
In just about every town I’ve lived, there has been a local independent record store that served as a communal hub for all of the area’s music geeks. The locations ... Read More
Live Photos: Girl In A Coma
Thursday April 17, 2008
It was an odd night in Detroit; there were tornado warnings and thunder and hailstorms had rolled into town in the early evening, spreading the chaos that weather does, but ... Read More
Emo kids the target of violence in Mexico
Wednesday April 16, 2008
To be fair, it's fun to make fun of the emo subculture, and I often do. What I consider a valid music movement spawned by early emotional hardcore bands like ... Read More
Ministry and Co-conspirators - Cover Up
Monday April 14, 2008
At the end of the day, Cover Up only is and only ever will be a collection of cover tunes. How you react to that depends on your opinion of ... Read More
SXSW 2008 - The Full Story in Words and Pictures
Wednesday April 9, 2008
It was five long days of sunshine and music, but I managed to trudge my way through the madness that was SXSW, and I have coverage to prove it.
From the ... Read More
SXSW 2008 - Steer Clear
Wednesday April 2, 2008
Every year, one of the big conjectures in anyone's SXSW wrap up is to pick the band that will be the next big thing. While a lot of bands who ... Read More
SXSW 2008 - The Heart Attacks at the Hellcat/TKO Showcase
Tuesday April 1, 2008
Austin has what is often annoyingly referred to as a "dry heat." For those of us in other parts of the country, this means that, no matter how hot it ... Read More