NargotTheBort’s Deviant Subculture has an astounding selection of shows to download. The taste leans slightly towards the mainstream, but it features extremely rare and vintage performances from The Jesus & Mary Chain, Beck, Duran Duran, R.E.M., The Feelies, and Talking Heads, amidst current shows from Of Montreal, The White Stripes, the Black Keys, and Mission of Burma, just to name […]

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Good Christ Billy Corgan is insane: “Here is what you must understand: Nothing has changed since 1999, except my budget. And Pro Tools. I am still the same alt-rock messiah I was. You are still my teenage flock.” Plenty more lunacy to be had in his rambling, crazily deluded letter to fans and critics alike. […]

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We *heart* Music has a nice little write up on the Riot Grrrls of yore. (though, as VU mentions “Let’s be clear about this, this is not a definitive guide to all things Riot Grrrl, but just some selections of music that I have and liked.”) Just a nice stroll down memory lane (with mp3s!) […]

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The New York Times published a piece yesterday covering the underground rumblings of French duo Justice, whose sound is a bit rougher and tougher than, say, the slick, atmospheric soundtracks of bands like Air, adding noise to its propulsive beats. The new, evolving strain of electronic music that Justice is at the forefront of trades […]

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If you’re a fan of post-punk, the late Post-Punk Junk’s demise was a sad day, as it archived classic interviews and clips of bands that pioneered the underground from 1979-1985. But, now fans of PIL and The Birthday Party can rejoice, as the blog has transformed into a cable-access type show with episodes collected on […]

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Interpol has thrown certainly some curve balls in the past with its videos, particularly the one for the “Evil” single, and “The Heinrich Maneuver” is equally strange and unexpected. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet.

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For a mess of a guy like Ryan Adams, there’s not much left in the shock value vault. But his picks for top five best hair metal tunes are puzzling to say the least. Kix? Yikes. But what do you expect from a certain hangover-induced blog entry on Myspace at the crack of dawn? From […]

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