Stream the album via Grooveshark below Well the Sam Smith album is here, and I think he’s still on pace for meteoric fame, though maybe on a different trajectory than I expected. This is ballad heavy, Sunday afternoon music. This is the album you put on between Ray La Montagne and Norah Jones. You cook dinner […]
The last time I met Chuck Klosterman, at a reading he gave in Boulder, Colorado, I asked him for an up-and-coming band I should check out. He told me about Parquet Courts. Their new album, Sunbathing Animal is about to drop on June 3rd, but two tracks are making the rounds on YouTube. The title […]
Chromeo is like a test of how much you like fun. If you have the nerve to say you don’t like Chromeo, I immediately draw two conclusions about you: You have no sense of humor and your idea of fun and my idea of fun stand on opposite sides of an unbridgeable rift. Let’s just […]
No joke: I went to Paris last year just to see Breakbot. Granted, I was already in Europe and I had friends that were going to be there, but I don’t know if I would have made the trek if it wasn’t for Thibaut Berland’s appearance with Ifrane and a live band at Solidays Festival. And […]
Conner Oberst appeared on CBS this Morning to support the release of his new album, Upstream Down Mountain. Oberst performed two tracks. He was accompanied by Los Angeles’ Dawes while performing “Hundreds of Ways,” and played “You Are Your Mother’s Child,” all by his lonesome. Oberst sported electric blue Lennon glasses, giving him a sense of […]
Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan has been busy. The singer recently teamed up with Beck to create a song for a video project by producer Neil Krug. Khan also recently collaborated with British clothing company YMC to create a line of clothing that “came from a very light, playful place – starting with my romantic […]
In a shocking discovery, it turns out Tupac didn’t like the police. CNN is reporting that a responding officer at the scene of the rapper’s 1996 murder, witnessed what is thought to be Tupac’s final statement. As he looked up at the cop standing over him, the officer says And that’s when I looked at him and […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith issued a challenge to doppelganger Will Ferrell during his Reddit AMA a few months ago, and Ferrell accepted: Hi, Chad. Will Ferrell here. I saw your video and I graciously accept your invitation to a drum battle. If we can raise $300,000 for Cancer for College I will face off with you in the […]
In a very candid interview with Rolling Stone, Jack White came clean about what caused the White Stripes to split in 2007. “She viewed me that way of ‘Oh, big deal, you did it, so what?’ Almost every single moment of the White Stripes was like that. We’d be working in the studio and something […]
It’s here: Sasquatch 2014. Time to pile your friends into a car full of camping supplies, drugs, and alcohol and set off toward the Gorge to once again do battle with the hill. But for the rest of us, this weekend means checking the webcast between beers and BBQ as we memorialize our nations commitment […]
