Vice just had the pleasure of interviewing David Yow, the Jesus Lizard legend. His most recent/awkward on-stage antic occurred when he showed up late and drunk (obviously) to this year’s SXSW with his new band Qui and looking out into a sea of white faces shouted, “Where are the niggers at?”, which, uhh, didn’t go […]

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Phew! I was so totally ready to burn my copy of Aloha from Hawaii. Despite a rumor dating back to the mid-1950’s, Elvis Presley never actually uttered these words: “The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes.” Chuck D of Public Enemy didn’t help matters with this […]

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As per the headline, it appears that the former Geraldine Fibber, present Nels Cline Singer, free music’s hired gun du jour, twin to Alex, new guy in Wilco that’s not Pat Sansone, etc. ad naus. has contracted that dreaded scourge of childhood known as chicken pox (Varicella zoster). And according to one of those annoying […]

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Eric Richter (ex-Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, and The 101) has made his new band’s debut EP available free for download at Myspace. Golden City is a Brooklyn quartet that lines its anthematic choruses with slightly darker strains of early emo (yeah, I know). Recorded in 48 hours by Ian Love (Rival Schools), 1 is as […]

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“It is strange – and rather disturbing – to discover how important classical music was to two of the most genocidal monsters of the 20th century, Hitler and Stalin.” Der Spiegel recently published a list of the 100 classical recordings found in Hitler’s bunker at the end of WWII, which had been secretly kept by a […]

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M.I.A. kind of loses it in an interview with Pitchfork. Immediately after exchanging pleasantries and ordering pancakes she gets pretty confrontational with the interviewer, who is obviously caught off guard. She’s extremely defensive about credit for her records going to her producers, particularly Diplo, which she blames Pitchfork for insinuating. The interviewer holds his own, […]

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It’s sort of pedantic in its brief historical glossing-over of entire musical movements, having been written from the perspective that the reader knows next to nothing about the subject, but Frere-Jones’ piece about how an English pop star of Damon Albarn’s pedigree came to score an opera is also informative and edifying. http://www.myspace.com/monkeyjourneytothewest

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