The news is out, Austin’s Voxtrot has finally started work on a proper debut album. So far we’ve had 3 very strong CDEPs, for sale on their site and iTunes, but now we should really see them stretch out and gain the following they deserve. No release date is set, however it will [...]

Do me a favor, go download the Poo Poodles free EP sampler. It’s about time you put some new toons on that iPod, and what better way than to try out something completely new.  They have an edge to them, and I suspect you’ll either like them or not, middle ground won’t be an [...]

While it’s old news now, legendary soul singer James Brown passed away early in the morning on Christmas Day in Atlanta. He was 73. I found it funny that there was an article out yesterday stating that James Brown may ultimately have been more influential than Elvis. Uh, *may have been*? WTF, [...]

The time is neigh so here is my list (in alphabetical order) of my favorite releases of the year, 2006. It was a great year, again, as I found a lot of new stuff that I will take with me. Band of Horses came out of nowhere with an incredible cd, if I [...]

This is just a crazy Brit supergroup, The Good, The Bad and The Queen features Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve) and Tony Allen (Africa 70, Fela Kuti). All of these guys have solid pedigrees coming into this project, add to that Damon who is on a tear [...]

With all of the early Smashing Pumpkins comparisons to live down (if you ever heard Gish you know what I’m talking about), LA’s Silversun Pickups (named after a package liquor store in the area) put forth a lot more rock than I was expecting. Like Band of Horses earlier this year, my wife hipped [...]

It’s back on, after the failed effort, the rare Velvet Underground acetate is back on eBay. “We ran this auction last week, but as we have reported to the international press which has enquirer, the winning bid was found to have been perpetrated by prankster. We are rerunning the auction this [...]

Here’s a relatively current picture of my front closet at home, with my custom/built-in cds shelves running floor to ceiling. Yes, I have a lot of cds, but note that this composite picture (roughly pasted together with The Gimp) doesn’t show the ~300 that I’ve pulled for sale/trade in. I’ve been shopping for cds [...]

Here’s Thom Yorke performing The Clock , a song off his solo album The Eraser, acoustically on Jools Holland this past weekend. I really love this disc, but to see him perform this so stripped down like this really shows it off.
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Much like The Lucksmiths, The Isles and Voxtrot, Seatle’s Math and Physics Club put forth a Smiths rendered pallet as seen through a Belle and Sebastian filter, and it sounds nice. I think Pitchfork summed it up, without as much name dropping, really well; “The Seattle quintet’s self-titled album should get some warm looks [...]

UPDATE4: The top bid(s) were bogus, and the auction ended without a buyer. Looks like it was too good to be true. Regardless, sounds like he’s going to give it another go, “Montreal man thwarted in eBay auction of rare record to try again” As always there’s some fun Monday morning quarterbacking going on over [...]

While the artist Stanley Donwood might not be a household name, his artwork is immediately recognizable. As the former art-school friend of Thom Yorke, he has been Radiohead’s resident cover artist, having designed all of the band’s record art since 1994’s My Iron Lung EP. Most recently he created the frontispiece of Tom Yorke’s solo [...]

Tokyo Police Club hail from Toronto, land of indie favs the New Pornographers and Broken Social Scene, among others. I just grabbed their debut EP, A Lesson In Crime, and it’s fantastic. Think of some of the manic efforts of Brianiac, but with a more reined in feel, ala The Strokes. With their back [...]

Nick Cave has a new band that sounds much more like the degenerated blues of his early band, The Birthday Party (an old favorite of mine), but with more of almost a Stooges feel. Nick has formed Grinderman with Martyn Casey (of The Triffids), Warren Ellis (of The Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds) [...]