A little late catching up on my late night Tivo. I’m not sure if this new Dinosaur Jr. record is getting the attention it deserves. For an eighteen-year recording silence, these three guys sound amazingly tight. It’s so cool to see Lou Barlow rocking out so hard without having to spill his guts into the […]

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Does a day go by when some obscure band doesn’t reunite? Is anyone actually calling for these reunions, or can no one let go of the past? I was a Shudder to Think fan up until it signed to Epic in 1994, wherein the band seemed to lose sight of what actually made it interesting. Shudder […]

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Elvis Costello recently put this Arctic Monkeys single on his celebrity iTunes playlist, humbly acknowledging that he tried to write a song on the subject of a young woman lamenting lost thrills but didn’t do as good a job as Alex Turner does here. Not bad coming from one of the best lyricists of all […]

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When my elder brother left home for college, I remember thinking that the appropriate response to such a life-changing (especially-for-me) event should probably include a tear or two. I mean my mom had been bawling her fucking eyes out weeks in advance, and I could tell that even my impossibly stoic father was a little […]

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Since The Mix-Up isn’t exactly burning up the charts, The Beastie Boys are ready for Plan B: Hiring “a bunch of British people” to sing on it, as MCA recently told Billboard. The band is set to reinvent its somewhat lackluster instrumental LP with a slew of guest vocalists. I’m not sure that will do the trick, but I’m open to […]

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Ruh-row. Sting finished up a Police reunion show at the HVS Arena in Hamburg last week, only to head straight to one of Germany’s top brothels to make the beef curtains of some poor fraulein very uncomfortable for upwards of six hours of tantric sex- Sting-style. His publicist blows off the news utterly: “Sting and […]

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I’m as big a Joy Division fan as the next guy. Ok, maybe more than the next guy. All right, all right, a whole lot more than the next guy. But even I am going to be pretty effing hard-pressed to shell out $200 for a boxed set containing three measly records that I already own. Granted, those […]

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