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Ride may have stumbled into some ill-advised musical tangents late in its career (on both Carnival of Light and the utterly disastrous Tarantula), but those early Creation singles are hard to top, as this video for “Chelsea Girl” attests.

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AntiMusic is reporting that Fugazi is reuniting for a show on September 3, 2007 at Fort Reno Park in Washington, DC, but Fugazi never officially broke up. The band has always referred to its lack of activity as a hiatus of undetermined length. The show marks not only its 20th anniversary of its first ever […]

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It’s sort of pedantic in its brief historical glossing-over of entire musical movements, having been written from the perspective that the reader knows next to nothing about the subject, but Frere-Jones’ piece about how an English pop star of Damon Albarn’s pedigree came to score an opera is also informative and edifying. http://www.myspace.com/monkeyjourneytothewest

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This song had almost become ubiquitous for me, as Sirius’ Left of Center plays it into the ground, but watching Matt Berninger toss off his working class poetry with that aching baritone live on national TV completely renewed my love for the song.

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With no new record in three years, it would have been safe to assume The Von Bondies were done, despite the critical acclaim of its major label debut, Pawn Shoppe Heart, back in 2004. After the band finished its tour that year, everything sort of fell apart. Members came and went. Lead singer Jason Stollsteimer […]

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Now that he’s over a year sober, Ryan Adams is reluctant to admit it has any effect on his music, although he is well aware that his tantrums and occasionally questionable performances have dampened his star’s rise. But his latest, Easy Tiger, does, admittedly, show signs of an ear for commerciality. I have a feeling […]

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