Surely, the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Bjork, Prince, and Elvis Costello will outweigh Sara McLachlan’s and Annie Lennox’s self-important Joni Mitchell interpretations (Mitchell herself despises 99.9% of contemporary female artists that cite her as an influence anyway), but nothing can save the presence of James Taylor’s moniker on that CD. Am I really going to […]

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The reunion bandwagon leaves no one behind. Even the unintentional inventors of post-rock, Slint, whose 1991 masterpiece, Spiderland, spawned many a pale imitation. Its home, Touch and Go, has posted an update on the band’s latest, reluctant regrouping: “Slint has been preparing for shows this summer. They want to play music together and have decided […]

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With the imminent release of Beyond on Fat Possum records on May 1st, the first Dinosaur Jr. album featuring the original trio of J. Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph since 1989, the band is hitting the road again on May 11th. Annoyingly, there are only ten cities on the itinerary, thus far. The usual New […]

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Jimmy Page has personally helped design a replica of his famous double-neck guitar for Gibson. 25 exact replicas (Page’s vintage dings and all- like distressed, overpriced jeans!) will retail for $33,500, and 250 less meticulous replicas (sans signature and custom pick-ups) go for a mere $10,000-$12,000. So, pretty much the only people to be able […]

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When Andy Taylor quit the band last October (for the second time), Duran Duran scrapped an entire album’s worth of material.  I’m not sure why they couldn’t have released it anyway, but the band decided to start from scratch. Says keyboardist Nick Rhodes: “The album had to be scrapped when five became four. We started again […]

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Billboard has previewed a few songs off the new Queens of the Stone Age, and says it rocks pretty hard. I don’t know what kind of expert Billboard is on rocking, but it’s not too hard to suspend my disbelief, despite overload of psychedelic tangents on the band’s last album, Lullabies to Paralyze. Mark Lanegan […]

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Jello Biafra makes a living complaining. And when he rails against the system he sounds like the dad from that shitty sitcom from the late 80’s, Just the Ten of Us. I know this is absurd, but, in high school, I thought this fat, bald middle-aged sitcom star was an underground political subversive because my […]

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