It’s clear that there’s only one way to settle this: a guitar solo battle even more momentous than Robert Johnson and the devil. Vote on who would play the devil below! Jack White stepped up the battle between himself and fellow blues men The Black Keys in a new interview with Rolling Stone. “I’ll hear […]
I had no idea who Haunted Hearts was when I put this album on, but within seconds, I recognized that striking tremolo and powerful, direct delivery. “That really sounds like Dee Dee Penny from Dum Dum girls,” I thought. That’s because it is. This is her side project with husband and Crocodiles frontman Brandon Welchez, […]
Dave Chappelle has announced three shows in June at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. According to the Radio City Music Hall website: For these shows, Chappelle will combine his greatest love, stand-up comedy with his second love, music. The connection between improvisation and timing will be on full display as Chappelle […]
Two album of the year contenders performed together at the Independent in San Francisco last night. Mr. Little Jeans continued her ongoing streak of being the cutest fucking Norwegian girl I’ve ever seen, playing a flawless set while wearing a long flowing skirt, tights, and mary janes. Seriously, there’s an entire sub-reddit of baby elephant […]
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 […]
