The fun part at SXSW is the BBQ and the music.
The not-so-fun part is this - the long lines to get to see and hear the bands….that line is for The Fader mag’s party and it stretched around an entire block. In fact people were still lined up around the block after The Kills had [...]
Another retailer decides CDs are not the business to be in. I figured they’d be switching over to MP3s but that’s not the case, in fact you can get free MP3s from the site. Maybe getting out of music sales period is the answer….
“On December 3, 1998, Paste (the company) sparked to life with the [...]
The former Talking Heads’ front man talks to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke about the thinking behind the release of In Rainbows. It’s a shame that this is not an in-depth interview as the pickings are very slim. A synopsis - Radiohead’s managers came up with the idea. The band embraced it based on the perceived value [...]
I’ve never met you Noah Baumbach, but after watching this Youtube interview, I think I can safely say - I love your hair.
I love how it glistens like a newborn kitten bathing in God’s tears and I’m pretty sure it smells the way I imagine corduroy would smell after someone spilled chocolate all over it.
And [...]
The New Yorker’s Pop Music Critic, Sasha Frere-Jones and me share the same sentiments about the current state of indie rock music. I have long complained in this blog about the dearth of creativity and experimentation in rock these days, Sasha though has a larger public audience than I and he is also much more [...]
October 1st saw the release of White Rainbow’s (aka Adam Forkner) Prism of Eternal Now. The Fader had a Q&A with him.
White Rainbow - Waves [MP3]
Jay Z - Blue Magic; it’s a trailer but we are not told from/to/of what. Directed by Rik Cordero. Thanks to the The Fader blog for this one.
Today’s New York Times Magazine was flung, as usual, far into the bushes of The Moose Mansion by our delivery person but after rescuing it from the shrubbery I was startled to discover that music lovers know what they want! The letters page was full of missives from folks with an opinion about Rick and [...]