[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XrRLuW0AomQ” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] After hearing the new Dean and Britta single (“Words You Used to Say”) a bagillion times this weekend on Sirius’ Left of Center, I had a hankering for some Luna. Turns out my friend Brian McGee recorded a show of theirs back in 2002 in Atlanta, GA, and, of […]

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I’ve never really understood the psyche rock tag when applied to Of Montreal. Kevin Barnes is such a succinct songwriter. His arrangements are meticulously composed and arranged, and he incorporates so many styles in his complicated pop tunes that downgrading any of it to psyche rock would be an injustice that’s not only inaccurate but […]

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This band knows how to put together some merchandise. When I first saw it in 2003, I was astounded by the selection (especially for a band that, at the time, only had one record under a different name). Everything from pint glasses and shot glasses down to hoodies and patches, you know, for the emo kids. Who would have […]

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Boderline personality disorder poster woman, Sinead O’Connor has a new double album headed your way on June 26th via Koch, who has reportedly signed O’Connor for “multi-products”, whatever the hell that means. O’Connor promises her new set, entitled Theology, has “no message…no preaching.” Off to a good start, I suppose. On the bad side, she […]

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There’s been an arrest in the Weiland family, but this time it’s not for drugs. I know, I know. I, too, was hoping for that long overdue overdose. Anyway, Ex-Stone Temple Pilots and current Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland had his clothes torched by his wife after they had a “brawl” at a luxury hotel […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/aygAu1x2uQo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] This video isn’t out yet in the US. It’s the title track off Winehouse’s second album, which just debuted at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, making her the highest debuting British female artist in the history of the chart, which is sort of hard to believe. […]

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Battles completely destroyed Local 506 in Chapel Hill, NC Saturday night. If this show was any indication, the new record, Mirrored (due May 15th), is going to be amazing. John Stanier (Tomahawk, ex-Helmet) on the drums is a fucking machine. Playing to all those loops is pretty much like playing to a metronome for 90 […]

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