While we’re well aware that most of you could care less about a soundtrack to a decade-old computer game, that doesn’t mean we can’t spark your interest with the magical key phrase “free.” If that doesn’t work we might have to resort to tossing in “remastered” and “remixed.” The soundtrack…
Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic artwork alone contributed to many of our own doodles of death-dealing knights…
There’s something comforting about listening to stories while sitting in a dimly lit venue with the stench of too many bourbons wafting from your mouth. Well, comforting and potentially boring — it’s a difficult balance to keep an audience intrigued by random true stories told by random people. It’s a…
View Larger Map Anyone who had been to Monkey Mania even once walked away with a story to tell. In fact, choosing just one great show from Monkey Mania is next to impossible. It was a haven for loud-as-fuck rock and roll tailor made to appeal to bands that loved…
I hate Pink Floyd. Absolutely! I hate the black light posters in high school bedrooms. I hate the sound, the look, the fans and everything else about the band. If you were ever curious of knowing what my personal version of hell was, it would be Pink Floyd. Well, maybe…
As you may or may not be aware there is an entire scene of people demaking popular songs into 8-bit blips and bloops. While chiptunes, in general, have always attracted the most circuit-minded of musicians, the demakes themselves are a genre all their own. As the Tron clip above demonstrates,…
There’s a clear trend in music right now that makes the oncoming disappearance of LaLa — which has been absorbed by Apple and is subsequently going the way of beepers by the end of the month — all the more unsettling: Music fans, it seems, prefer to preview an entire…
This just in: Evidently, it’s not all puppy dogs and rainbows in the porn industry. As these adult entertainment stars point out, “We made it just for you,” assuring us that, “We in the adult entertainment family love and appreciate our fans,” or the real kicker, “We work hard to…
I remember Hello Nasty’s release with remarkable clarity. I was working as a pizza-cook in Lyons — my boss, a pseudo-ex-hipster type with a goatee and a drinking problem bought the album the day in came out. He was a huge Beastie Boys fan, as well as an unfortunate influence…
It’s becoming increasing more popular for celebrities and pseudo-celebrities alike to think the public still gives a rats-ass what they have to say. And it’s no secret that Twitter is a giant bathroom stall waiting for the sharpie attack of a bored ex-rocker, but every once and a while it…
In case you haven’t gotten your quotient of feel-like-shit yet today, check out I Need That Record! website, a documentary about the death of independent record stores. For a limited time, you can stream the doc for free in its entirety on Pitchfork or you can purchase it directly for…
Tomorrow marks the release of Super Street Fighter IV, which is an exciting moment for any fighting game fan. It probably doesn’t seem like much to normal human beings, but after the success of the absolutely awesome Street Fighter IV, it’s hard not to get our hadouken’s in a twist…
With Public Image Ltd. coming to town this weekend, we’ve been thinking about John Lydon and all the crazy weird things he’s done. If you haven’t seen many interviews with him, you’re going to quickly notice a theme in many of these, namely a slight air of pretension, curse bleeps…
A couple of nights ago, we had the absolute pleasure of seeing William Shatner and Lin Yu Chun do a rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on Lopez Tonight that made our hearts cream with loving ecstasy. We have no clue what to actually think of Lin Yu Chin…
With shit like the Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls blowing up lately, I’ve been trying to trace the all-to-familiar sound back to at least a semblance of its roots. While I could name off a hundred bands I thought these bands sounded like, I couldn’t quite nail it. A…
Sometimes it takes us a little while to notice things that happen in the obscure parts of the far-off internet world. Such is the case with the Littles Paia discography, which has been slowly making its way onto an oft-missed corner of the web over the course of the last…
Tomorrow will mark the official release of Hunter Dragon’s CD, Weight & Measure at the hi-dive, but since we’re not too keen on waiting for anything, we decided we’d share our impatience with you. With the help of Bocumast Records, we’re offering up the entire album preview. You can check…
If the scent of fresh vinyl in the morning turns you on, then chances are you’re already aware that tomorrow is Record Store Day. for the rest of you, consider this a public service announcement. Starting at various times across the state on Saturday, April 17th, independent record shops are…
First off — yes, I’ve heard Elvis Costello before — and yes I’ve liked a couple of his albums. I’ve also been surrounded by nutballs that think Elvis Costello is the greatest thing in the universe. Their insistence that I must listen to Armed Forces has kept that album from…
The television-show-music montage made its debut underneath a radar that no amount of research can seem to muster up. Although the montage’s early use in film is evident, the end-of-a-TV-show montage seems to have slipped into the cultural brainstem without leaving a mark at the beginning…
The above clip probably offers a better introduction to this article than we ever could: “(Hank Williams) is a feller that writes just as many songs as most anybody in the country, and sings them just as well, when it comes to the country style on singing.” Oh, right, and…
My goodness Pictureplane’s Travis Egedy is getting hard to keep track of these days. It seems like he’s dropping new mixes as quickly as we can talk about them. This weekend another one appeared in the mystical Internet cloud courtesy of a magazine called Dis…
