I’m a big fan of a few of Amon Tobin’s previous releases, especially Briolage. He created his upcoming release by recording real sounds from all over, and then taking them back to the studio to sample and mix. The results are very cool, but they still sound like Amon. There’s a limited [...]

Here’s a video of some Standford kids going by the moniker Monzy doing a pseudo (sudo?) rap to a Unix administrator’s ace in the hole: `kill -9`. It’s pretty dorky, but in a geeky way, and thus funny; at least to me. It’s Nerdcore Hip Hop at its best. MP3 download and [...]

Modest Mouse’s new one, We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank, doesn’t come out until March 20th, but the video for the first single, Dashboard, is already out. It’s a really good song that sounds *more* rocking than their last release; harking back to a bit earlier days, which is good. And hey, [...]

And you were bummed when you lost your last years worth of email? Checkout this post from Bob Mould (Husker Du, Sugar, Bob Mould Band) on January 29: “Today, I’m off to see the data recovery people. My main external drive failed yesterday afternoon; yes, all the files for the new album are on [...]

Since I support this idea I’m reposting it from Gizmodo.com. “Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction [...]

Here’s another great band from Austin that I’m now only hearing about after being away for two years, Explosions in the Sky. In my defence, while I’ve heard of these guys, they’ve only been putting out discs since 2000, so I haven’t missed that much, but they are very good. Think of Godspeed [...]

From Punknews.org, “Kill Rock Stars has announced that on May 8th,2007 they will release a double album of Elliott Smith b-sides recorded from 1995-1997 entitled New Moon. Also, a significant amount of the proceeds will go to Outside In, a Portland-based social service organization dedicated to providing diverse services for homeless youth [...]

A cat active in the Wordpress circles, PhotoMatt, has an awesome page of quotes from Jazz musicians through the years. I have a couple I want to submit, but cruising through them is very inspiring.

Andrew Bird’s new release, Armchair Apocrypha, doesn’t come out until March 20th, but I’m already expecting it to be killer, simply because his last, The Mysterious Production Of Eggs, continues to amaze me. He’s touring pretty extensively for this one, coming back to St. Louis in March. Seeing him recreate the songs live [...]

While certainly putting the cart before the horse, Morrissey has chosen where he wants to be buried; Los Angeles celebrity cemetery Hollywood Forever, right next to Johnny Ramone. “I like that cemetery. I stumbled across Johnny Ramone’s stone and thought it was very nicely placed,” he told The Daily Express. “I sat there for [...]

Blah, here’s an updated list of the now 503(!) bands scheduled to play this years’ SXSW music festival; and these are just the ‘offical’ bands, over the years there’s been more and more day shows that were mainly free, so you could see a ton more than we used to over the 5 days/nights. [...]

The Beautiful South is breaking up…after 19 years! I got into this band immediately after The Housemartins, and their first few cds, especially Choke, were fantastic. Seems they were very big in their homeland (UK), which is good, I think they deserve at least that. The lyrics were some of the most [...]

Neko Case’s Austin City Limits appearance has been released on dvd, it’s worth checking out. Here’s a clip of her doing Behind The House. (damn I get homesick looking at that skyline in the background…)
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Today I heard a track from Born Ruffians (a band I hadn’t even heard of before) debut EP, and it’s pretty nice, making I (heart) music’s top EP of the year. Pitchfork sums them up with; “Born Ruffians are three Toronto teenagers with the precise sound we imagine when we think of indie rock [...]