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Not even money can bring The Libertines together…
Oh Carl Barât, why must you be so righteous? Why can’t use just give in, like Pete, and accept Reading and Leeds’ offer of £2 million to reunite The Libertines and headline the U.K. festivals? Instead, you tell Pete, your former bandmate turned Babyshambles figurehead, that for any reunion to work, you “have to be [...]
Los Campesinos! & Titus Andronicus overwhelm Michigan (2/10)
Unless you were living under a rock for all of 2008, you’ve heard of Welsh Indie sensation Los Campesinos! and New Jersey’s own Titus Andronicus. On Tuesday, both bands graced the Ladies Literary Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and while we didn’t discuss literature (although there were plenty of ladies), it was a night of [...]
Sonic Youth’s sweet sixteen
There’s something charming about Sonic Youth, even if the New York based outfit’s music is anything but that. Maybe it’s the fact that Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon are the only likeable, huggable hipsters that come out of the Big Apple. Or, it might just be their dreadful sense of humor. Whatever the case, it’s [...]
Time to dust off those red hats, Limp Bizkit is back!
I’m starting to get a bit nervous, like checking my calender every minute nervous. After all, it’s 2009 and both Blink-182 and Limp Bizkit have appeared in the headlines over the last week, and it wasn’t because of some rehab stint or an overweight Fred Durst sighting. Yes, just days after Blink announced its reunion [...]
YouTube Live: The Cramps go bonkers in California
Not only did Lux Interior have one of rock history’s campiest and memorable aliases, but together with his wife, Poison Ivy, he founded one of the coolest and most innovative punk bands of the ’70s: The Cramps. Since their formation in 1973, the dynamic duo has been credited as innovators of genre-clash psychobilly. Retrospectively, The [...]
Fleetwood Mac says “no” to album, “yes” to tour
It’s hard to take your show on the road when there’s hardly a new show at all. However, that doesn’t seem to bother Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, John McVie or Mick Fleetwood–otherwise known as, Fleetwood Mac. No, the transcontinental quartet are packing up the instruments and hittin’ the road for a long spring and summer [...]
Check Out: A.C. Newman – “Take on Me” (A-ha cover)
Fresh off the release of his fine Get Guilty, red bearded New Pornographers co-frontman A.C. Newman has got some more new material for us. Well, new in the sense that his version of A-Ha’s laughably nostalgic “Take on Me” is almost nothing like the original. If you recall, a while back there was talk of [...]
Art Brut takes on Satan
It’s hard to fathom it’s already been almost four since Art Brut somehow managed to both celebrate and poke fun at the music industry with its stellar debut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll. However, at the time, many critics wondered how far the English outfit’s tongue-and-cheek style could take them – after all, pretty soon [...]
Album Review: The Lonely Island – Incredibad
It’s safe to say that until recently Saturday Night Live was in a bit of a creative lull. Key cast members were leaving for more lucrative movie deals, only stopping by for the occasional cameo. It was a sad time for the institution that started the careers of almost everyone in the pantheon of comedy. [...]
The White Stripes are still alive, playing Conan’s last show!
When word came yesterday that The White Stripes would be playing Conan O’Brien’s last night as host of Last Night with Conan O’Brien, the first thought that popped into my mid was the image of Max Weinberg, not Meg White, drumming away to “Icky Thump”. Imagine how epic the February 20th performance would be if [...]
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