What’s the fastest way to bore yourself into a stupor? Listening to a seven-disc set of live Pearl Jam, obvs. I almost fell asleep just typing that. Yes, for some ungodly reason, Pearl Jam is unleashing 76 songs worth of live material on its poor fans, whoever they may be these days. Honestly, who is […]

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On May 22 Legacy will release So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley– an anthology that purports to honor the tenth anniversary of Buckley’s death (its release is exactly one week shy of his drowning at Mud Island in Memphis, TN). Having released only one proper album, 1994’s Grace, this man’s back catalog has been squeezed […]

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It’s a given that Michael Anthony was always the guy along for the ride in Van Halen and never the musical wizard of the band. Knowing he could never outshine Eddie’s showy fretwork must have been the inspiration for this completely wasted joke from a Van Halen concert in 1982. At least I hope this […]

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Former Goonie and current star of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”, actress Martha Plimpton is an admitted “phillistine and an ignoramus with an irrational aversion to reading liner notes”, but she took some time out recently to interview current indie ‘It’ girl, Feist, for MTV News. Feist’s response to an admittedly “ludicrous” question of […]

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Some random Interpol fan posted this in his Fotolog today. It may just be promotional art for this specific poster, but the whole wild animal/mountainside juxtaposition is quite an artistic leap for a band whose first two albums were certainly lacking in imagery. The cover art for “The Heinrich Maneuver” single is similarly themed.

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Astoundingly, this is the only Unrest video on all of YouTube, presently. This version of “So, So Sick” is from an acoustic set Unrest played at Go! Records in Arlington, VA in the spring of 1993, a few months prior to the release of its final album, Perfect Teeth. Unrest’s schizophrenic experimental indie pop is […]

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The Beastie Boys are set to follow up To the 5 Boroughs with a sample-free album called The Mix-Up, foregoing the use of the far more amusing ‘Thick Like Beyonce’s Leg’ because as Mike D told XFM recently, “she’s probably stronger than we are… We didn’t want to have any problems with her.” Not to […]

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