This is kind of awesome. Duran Duran recently held a truncated stint at The Barrymore Theater on Broadway in New York City this past November as part of the media blitz surrounding the release of Red Carpet Massacre. The band lined up side by side behind keyboards a la Kraftwerk to perform “Showroom Dummies”, replete […]

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If you stay up late enough, you’re bound to see some crazy ass shit on cable – guaranteed. Needless to say (but I’ll say anyways because, like Eric Cartman, I do what I want), I thought I was in some sort of domestic beer-induced haze when I caught this spectacle on FX recently. Behold the […]

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Amidst the holly and ivy, head colds and lay-a-way lines of this most wonderful time of the year, music critics of all thoughts and tastes cozy up beside the fire and begin making a list. Was the newest Bruce Springsteen record naughty? Was the Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible nice? Checked over twice or more, he […]

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As a longtime Magnetic Fields fan, I am, of course, anticipating the new album, Distortion, which comes out next week on Nonesuch. I’m, perhaps, even more intrigued than usual given the wildly differing takes on Stephin Merritt’s new production fetishes. I’ve heard “Three Way”, a surfed-up haze of feedback instrumental, save for some ecstatic shouts […]

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Sebastian Grainger, former drummer and lead singer of Canada’s sadly defunct Death From Above 1979, has a new band called Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains. The quartet’s myspace page has three “working mixes” posted, and they sound very, very promising, despite being a far cry from DFA1979’s glorious pummeling bass/drums attack. From the default profile […]

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I love The Knife. Makes me want to go skateboarding. (via)

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I’ve been watching the 7 Ages of Rock on VH-1 Classic, which has been decent, if a bit thin in its scope (the American Alternative section studied Nirvana and R.E.M. with only a perfunctory acknowledgment of anything else). During the British Indie section, The Stone Roses were given wild accolades, which I will cede on […]

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