I know being crazy hot tends to give a girl a distorted sense of self, but thinking you can sing and thinking you can pull off a Jeff Buckley cover are two wildly different things. Stereogum’s got a stream of Scarlett Johansson’s poor attempt at Jeff Buckley’s “Last Goodbye”, and it’s, well…oh, it’s beyond awful. […]

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well, at least according to Bullz Eye.

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One of my favorite people in the world, Steve Martin, is putting out an album of his idiosyncratic banjo picking on January 27, 2009 as a three-month Amazon exclusive. Martin’s been playing banjo since he was 17, and he’s been on Letterman a few times strutting his stuff with Earl Scruggs and other bluegrass luminaries. […]

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It’s always a pleasant evening when you can attend a free show by a band you’ve liked but never seen (Stricken City) and get introduced to an interesting new band (Screaming Lights) in the process. Stricken City’s single Tak o Tak was one of my faves of ’08, so I was quite chuffed to finally […]

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Minor Threat family tree graffiti in London Ontario by Rich Jacobs. Easily the best graffiti I’ve ever seen. Not the most artistic, but the most thorough and certainly the most punk. [via]

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Creation records head Alan McGee compares Animal Collective to Hall & Oates in an editorial for The Guardian. Hilarious, except for the fact that he actually enjoys Animal Collective, whereas I tend to think that the comparison gives Animal Collective far too much credit. The best part of the piece is how it explains Hall […]

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  Writer and producer Geoff MacCormack tagged along with David Bowie’s entourage between 1973 and 1976 during the Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane tours as a backing vocalist/percussionist and took some amazing photos. A collection of photographs MacCormack took during his time with Bowie are on display at the Rockarchive Gallery, Chelsea, London, from 23 […]

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