After the disaster of Travistan, former Dismemberment Plan leader Travis Morrison has been taking his time rebuilding his wrecked solo career. Well, the wait is almost over, as he’s posted a new song from his forthcoming All Y’all album (due out on Barsuk in April) on his Myspace page. “Catch Up” starts off promising with […]

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Getting a shitty burned CD in the mail is not a good way to make it to the stereo. But for some reason I put this one in, and I listened to it all the way through. And then I immediately had to go look up everything I could learn about Cortney Tidwell.

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After allegedly breaking up four times over the past two years (and then signing to Caplitol), Interpol has been in NYC recording the follow-up to Antics, which, unsurprisingly, remains untitled. However, there is one new song title, “Mammoth”, with which to tease you. A tentative release date is set for early summer and according to […]

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Blessed with what is easily one of Columbia, South Carolina’s finest voices, Grey Egg is set to release the follow up to its preternaturally compelling No Prob! EP. No band in recent memory has carried off such archaic mythology to the point that no one is quite sure what lies behind the band’s motives, Russian […]

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This trainwreck is long overdue for a catastrophe. How is this woman still alive? She owes a Malibu rehab facility $181,000. Good Christ, for that much money you’d think she’d at least look sober. Well, maybe she can milk Kurt Cobain’s corpse for more cash with another shitty Nirvana compilation, since she can’t make any […]

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Yep, Starbucks is starting a record label. Now, instead of wading through racks of repackaged compilations on your way to that vanilla latte, you might see the new album by Paul McCartney. In its quest for ubiquitous homogenization, Starbucks plans to have kiosks in its stores, so that customers can create and burn CD’s while […]

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Even though Boston’s Brad Delp might not have written the hits (that was guitarist Tom Scholz), nobody can touch that high note in “More Than A Feeling.” Delp was found dead by his fiancée of an apparent carbon monoxid-induced suicide.

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