Interpol bassist, Carlos Dengler, will premier his debut film at the Anonymous Gallery in New York City beginning April 17th. The installation will run through May 5th. Dengler produced, stars in, and composed the original score for My Friends Told Me About You. Dengler teamed up with producer Todd Eckler, who co-produced Anton Corbijn’s Joy […]

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Kim Gordon’s Mirror Dash clothing line is now available exclusively at Urban Outfitters. The Sonic Youth bassist/singer has ventured into fashion before with the X-Girl brand, which began back in the mid-1990’s and is now pretty much-Japan-only. Mirror Dash seems to pick up where X-Girl left off, as X-Girl kind of hit a ceiling in […]

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Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon made a surprise appearance at the NME Shockwaves Awards, taking the stage after almost a decade to play a low-key version of its classic “This Is A Low” from the Parklife album, of course. Unfortunately, no videos of the performance have leaked yet (that I can find), but this post-show […]

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I have a soft spot for French pop, from Filles in the Garage style ’60s pop to Serge and Françoise to the twee tunes of Tahiti 80. Phoenix, while definitely falling under the French pop umbrella, manage to transcend that label and have delivered some of the best pop music of this decade. The new […]

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Well, first of all, ahahahahahahahahahaha. And, secondly, what a surprise that INXS would fire its gameshow winning replacement lead singer after its “comeback” album went down in flames of greed and embarrassment and grave-turning disrespect. One can almost feel sorry for JD Fortune’s, erm, misfortune. He just wanted to be famous in a band he […]

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In light of today’s Superchunk news, I had a hankering to hear “Precision Auto” off On the Mouth from 1993. The band is set to return after a loooong hiatus with the Leaves in the Gutter EP via Merge, of course, on April 7th, which will be nicely timed to coincide with the band’s appearance […]

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While the sound of Ben Gibbard’s nasally, nerdy voice can grate on one’s nerves in high doses, I still appreciate the fact that it’s not Auto-Tuned to death. Gibbard and his Death Cab for Cutie bandmates are taking a public stance against Auto-Tune, which corrects vocal pitch problems for most major label singers. The band […]

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