If you’re a fan of catchy pop tunes and you aren’t familiar with the Paley Brothers, prepare yourself: you’re about to get an education. Andy and Jonathan Paley released their…
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The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert’s worth of Springsteen tunes.
With a new R.E.M. album in hand, Annie Zaleski tackles the difficult task of assessing the latest offering by her favorite band.
Peace and love – they were meant to be together. With that in mind, Michael Fortes brings together a mix of 20 songs with “peace” and “love” in their titles.
Ed Murray is back with another chunk of lo-fi goodness, and this time, he’s cranking up some live recordings from Wayne Kramer and Johnny Thunders’ short-lived Gang War.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE First off, let me say that “Y.M.C.A.†didn’t make the cut on this mix. Yeah, it’s a fun song, but chances are you’ve heard it…
“When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmmmmmmm, boy. 
With this week’s installment of Unsolicited Advice, Rob Smith’s uncle Don Skwatzenschitz becomes the latest in a long line of people to try and figure out what’s wrong with R.E.M.’s career.
Various Artists – The Coolest Songs in the World! Vol. 8 (2009, Wicked Cool) Purchase this album (Amazon) Let us now praise famous do-rag-wearing guitarist/songwriter/deejay/record execs. Now, unless Clive Davis…
Erika Wennerstrom is a genuine force of nature. If you’re hearing her voice for the first time, you quickly realize that it qualifies as a revelation. If you’ve heard her…
If I ever run for office, and someone asks the drug-use question, I can honestly say I didn’t inhale. While pop-music critics are a Dionysian lot, snorting coke off groupies’…
From a place apart Morpheus, God of dreams, awakes The artist Robert Mapplethorpe died from complications of AIDS in 1989. According to his great friend, Patti Smith, “His mortal suffering…