Love em or hate em, U2 is pretty much universally respected in the music industry. They have longevity, awareness and more class than a state university in September. Who would a thought it but one of U2′s biggest fans is none other than the mighty Jack White. If you’ve ever seen the fantastic movie It [...]
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The Midweek Mixtape
The end of the week is closer than ever and it makes me turn up the speakers. If there’s anything that can take you into the weekend with your voltage high, it’s good music. Which is why I’m delivering a mixtape to keep that energy up. The choices are based around a moment I had [...]
Much Deliciousness in New Track by Tycho
When I was younger, I went through a phase where I listened to, among other things, a great deal of downtempo techno music. You could even say this kind of techno was the vaporous planet around which my world revolved for a good part of my late twenties. It never failed to light up my [...]
Decemberists’ New Video Does Infinite Jest
In what may look like a holdover from a 1980s no-nuke crusade, or a clever look at the state of modern nationalization, the Decemberists pulled a fast one and used their new video for the Calamity Song to reenact the Eschaton chapter of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, complete with propeller beanies, tennis balls, and [...]
Reggie Watts’ Fro Does the Talking for Nando’s
How do I love Reggie Watts. It may be because of my memory from 1998 at the Showbox in Seattle, him prancing around, pre-fro, scatting like his life depended on it, twisting up our insides and making us dance them untangled. Maybe it’s because he put the “pant” in inde-pant-ent rock. Or else it’s because [...]
Dirges for the Departed
As the melancholy peaks and I think of the souls that have passed, just like we all will, for them, and us, I have put together a selection of dirges, funeral songs and laments, music that would rightfully befit this darkness. To suit, turn down the lights, open your old scrapbook, take out some photos [...]
In Love With Pink Floyd (Live at Pompeii, the Full Concert)
I’m sitting in Billy’s basement bedroom. I’m 16 and I wish I had a bedroom like this. Even though there’s no natural light save a once-a-day sliver through a tiny window by the ceiling and 10-year-old dust covers every surface, I envy it with all my heart. He’s got a lava lamp, a Frank Zappa [...]
Black Keys Music Video is a Movie Trailer
I’m so tired of the traditional music video format, and while granted I haven’t seen many of them since oh, I grew up, I’m pretty sure they aren’t at all like this. Director/Editor Chris Marrs Piliero has pulled a fast one for the fucking awesome Black Keys song “Howlin’ For You” and made a fucking [...]
LCD Soundsystem’s Final Show In Its Entirety
On April 2nd, 2011, a band known as LCD Soundsystem played a show for a sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York City. One could only describe the vibe as, for lack of a better adjective, significant. You can tell just by listening that something special went down that night – and [...]
Kickass Song of the Day, vol. 8
764-Hero is on my mind tonight. This great but largely forgotten band from the post-Nirvana brood of the mid-nineties in Seattle still manages to rock my world. The name, far from any traditional emo-imagery, actually comes from the number Seattle designated to report carpool lane violators from your 1997 Motorola flip phone. If you have [...]
TV on the Radio Plays a Full Set at Letterman’s Studio
Picture it. You’re a fan of indie music. You like hot rock by artists that don’t need a troupe of backup dancers to make them sound good. And then you hear TV on the Radio is playing a smokin’ set at the Ed Sullivan (aka David Letterman) Theater in New York. You have a ticket. [...]
