A formula has been developed by a senior lecturer in mathematics at England’s University of Southhampton to determine and process “the ethical and aesthetic implications of any one instance of the pervasive blurring of the lines between rock and advertising. The formula kicks out a number that could be used to determine just how much of […]

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This interview with Iceland’s Sigur Ros is so painful to watch, but I highly recommend it. The interviewer is admittedly a little daft or maybe just nervous, but even some of his simplest, most straightforward questions are met with nine-months-pregnant pauses followed by three muttered words at best. NPR posted the interview purely as an […]

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Cracked has compiled a list of the ’10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fistfights’, which is more amusing than you might think, especially #7 on the list: Mick Jagger vs. Charlie Watts. Charlie Watts has always been known as the classiest and most reserved member of The Rolling Stones, but now he can add biggest bad ass in the […]

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“Music for Airports” was composed in an era when air travel was still a romantic affair — a far cry from today’s paranoia drill, where getting through security becomes a shoeless, beltless, helpless exercise in humility. In this light, Eno’s ambient breakthrough feels more vital — and functional — than ever.” –How Brian Eno Helped […]

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Sammy Beam of Iron and Wine offers up one of the most uninformative and inane interviews I’ve ever read with The Onion’s AV Club. Dude sounds like Alberto Gonzales. In response to the films he’s allowed his music to be featured in, Beam either doesn’t know or hasn’t seen anything the interviewer brings up. Does he […]

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Why the name Tom Ewing isn’t any bigger than it currently is is beyond me. His ongoing piece for Brit blog Freaky Trigger – in which he has endeavored to review, with a pretty good semblance of success, every Number One Hit in the UK since 1952 – has occupied more of my leisure time […]

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Somewhere along the fallibility continuum of the American justice system – closer to the Rosenberg commies than those anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti – now lies that weird little gun-toting, Jewish kid from the Bronx known as Harvey Phillip Spector. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler (who apparently has received some poetically disturbing death threats as […]

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