New album out in September! Love me some Emiliana. (via)

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With its flurry of vinyl-only releases over the past year, consisting of a 12”, two 10”s, and a 7” (all of which were splits on different labels), Columbia’s Thank God has solidified itself as a dual-pronged threat in the underground punk scene. With marketing savvy to match its frenetic brand of thinking man’s hardcore, the […]

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Post-Shiner shoegaze masters The Life and Times have a shit-hot new song streaming on their MySpace page. “Fall of the Angry Clowns” is the first taste of the band’s forthcoming full-length Tragic Boogie, which unfortunately doesn’t yet have a definitive release date, but, if this song is any indicator, will blow the hair off your […]

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The poor oxford comma gets the shaft at my place of employ and it makes me sad. The long take is the Oxford comma of the film vernacular.

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I wasn’t too keen on A Weekend in the City, and from the sound of Bloc Party’s new single “Mercury”, streaming on the band’s official site, I’m not really itching to keep listening this time around either. I’m all for bands shifting and branching out and evolving, but Bloc Party seems to have lost the […]

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YouTube finally has some more Unrest(!), including this video for the band’s single “Make Out Club” off its 1993 record Perfect Teeth. I still have my Perfect Teeth promotional toothbrush and slightly less appropriate Perfect Teeth plastic hair comb like the kind you got on picture day in the fourth grade. This is probably an […]

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Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan correctly calls for a moratorium on the term “indie”, especially when applied to musicians who willfully seek out any possible cross-market corporate tie-in in order to sustain so-called “independence.” Or as Nolan succinctly states: …to sell a single freaking song in today’s environment, musicians must rush around bootlicking every monster corporation of […]

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