As Duran Duran receives the star treatment for its first ever tour of Colombia, the band speaks candidly to the Guardian’s Roy Carroll about whether they think they’re too old for the pop machine anymore and how bands these days have co-opted their core sound. Duran Duran meet Rory Carroll on their first tour of […]

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Even though my partner here at the Drawer still has no use for Of Montreal, I’m highly anticipating the upcoming release of Skeletal Lamping, as the band’s previous effort, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, was my favorite album of 2007. At the Of Montreal show the other night in NYC, Kevin Barnes was joined on stage by […]

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If you are kicking yourself for missing Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom tour like I am, then you will rejoice in this link. It sends you to a radpishare file of Waits’ entire show at the Fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia from July 5, 2008. I haven’t listened to it yet, so I can’t […]

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I’ve always been more of a Superchunk fan than that of Portastatic, much to the chagrin of some huge fans of Mac McCaughan’s side project who are always trying to convince me that I’m a pretty much a fool. Same goes for Sebadoh and Lou Barlow, but the inverse. C’est la vie or ma vie […]

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I still love Sweden, but lately another Scandinavian state has been cropping up pretty regularly in my daily surf.  From blogs like Copenhagenize and Copenhagen Cycle Chic to recent mentions on BigStereo and DiscoDust of the Danish band, Small, Denmark is quickly becoming a focal point for my obsessions.  Small’s Comic Girl and Sunshine Lover […]

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With Bauhaus’ unceremonious and uncomfortable announcement that there would be no touring or promotion for its final album, Go Away White, the re-emergence of Love & Rockets is somewhat anti-climactic. Not that the two bands have much in common besides 3/4’s of a line-up, but, still, my surprising excitement for the new Bauhaus record isn’t […]

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In a slick bid to pad the fan-list, Kings of Leon are offering a free download of the new song, “Crawl”, in exchange for your email address. This type of thing is the only reason I still have a yahoo account. The new song is a mid-tempo rocker (imagine that). But, really, it’s a dirty […]

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