Despite the buzz about Duran Duran’s “Nite Runner” stream at Entertainment Weekly, its label (Epic) has strangely chosen a different track for the first single, which you can stream here: here “Falling Down” is less adventurous and more laid-back than the Timbaland-produced, beat-heavy “Nite Runner.” Perhaps, the label is hoping for another “Ordinary World”-style comeback. Justin Timberlake […]

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Mission of Burma was one of those bands I never thought I’d have the chance to see live. They’d broken up well before I was even aware of them, so when news started spreading that the band was reuniting back in 2002, I was hesitant, skeptical, yet also kind of excited. Reunions are almost always a dead-lock […]

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A 1970 version of “In the Ghetto”, just prior to the bloating. All the freaks are out in Memphis’ scorching heat for the yearly vigil honoring the day the king died on his throne.

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In an old post from 2002 by fake news satirists at The Onion, Battles guitarist/vocalist Ty Braxton pretends to be a temp at a Boston law firm:  “I have so much going on in my life right now,” Braxton said. “I’m helping a friend start up a little Cajun food stand, I’ve gotten way into this […]

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Screw the presidential debates. Using YouTube to ask a Smashing Pumpkin a question is, like, way more fulfilling.

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Vice just had the pleasure of interviewing David Yow, the Jesus Lizard legend. His most recent/awkward on-stage antic occurred when he showed up late and drunk (obviously) to this year’s SXSW with his new band Qui and looking out into a sea of white faces shouted, “Where are the niggers at?”, which, uhh, didn’t go […]

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The Pet Shop Boys are set to release Disco 4, which features remixes of tracks by The Killers, Madonna, Yoko Ono, and David Bowie. But Blur’s “Girls and Boys” has been vetoed for inclusion by none other than Blur/Gorillaz/The Good The Bad and The Queen frontman Damon Albarn because he feels that the Pet Shop Boys morphed the […]

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