It’s safe to say that anything Omar Rodríguez-López has his hands in is going to be interesting. The Mars Volta/At the Drive-In guitarist has joined Teri Gender Bender (Le Butcherettes), and Melvins’ guitarist and drummer Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover for a new outing called Crystal Fairy that’s equally as rough-around-the-edges and guitar-driven as all…
With the influx of photos, performances and memories being posted on the Internet of Wham! singer George Michael comes this rare rehearsal footage. While prepping for a Freddie Mercury tribute concert, Michael slays “Somebody To Love” alongside Queen’s very own Brian May, making every sane person in the world wonder why Michael never officially replaced Mercury in the first…
OK. Listen. Before we even get started here, I didn’t want to blast the guy for his age. I really didn’t. Maybe he’s lonely. Maybe he just needs a new friend. Right? That’s what I thought…until I read his age requirements… A 56 year old man named “Gordie” from West Covina, Calif. created a Craigslist ad looking…
Twenty One Pilots are known for their high-energy live shows and heart-on-their-sleeves lyrics, but they’ve taken another step in the right direction partnering with former tour-mates MUTEMATH for a new EP that reimagines five of their tracks. Mutemath supported TØP on the tour’s first North American leg and would regularly join the duo during their…
Every year, I do a rundown of my picks for the Best Albums of the Year. Sometimes I rank them. Sometimes I don’t. I do what I want. In no particular order, here’s what kept my ears happy this year: Blood Orange – Freetown Sound Blood Orange, aka the London-born New Yorker Dev Hynes, is no…
If super fast alt-rock with a lot of horns is your jam, Goose Club’s The Goose Is Loose EP is for you. Hailing from the DC Metro area, Goose Club consists of Garrett Shaw (sax/keys/vocals), Dylan Nowak (vocals/guitar/trumpet), Kyle Shaw (bass) and Stan Chong (drums). On their new EP recorded at Inner Ear Studios (where the…
Fiona Apple never had a problem telling the world what’s up. Just look at her VMA’s acceptance speech from 1997 when she won Best New Artist. (Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Exhibits A-Z.) She’s a boss. Now, she’s back with a brand new Christmas song roasting that fuckface “President”-Elect, Donald Trump. In a new…
The music world has lost another one. Sharon Lafaye Jones, energetic sister of soul and lead singer of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, has passed away after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 60 years old. First diagnosed in 2013, the singer underwent surgery and treatment, and returned to the road that same year.…
Electric Eel Shock, the garage rock trio from Japan, have eight albums, which is kind-of, sort-of news to me. (In my defense, not all of them were released here in the States, or at least I haven’t found them!). The band hadn’t released anything since 2009 and I wrongly ASS-U-MED they were dead…until “Sweet 55”…
…but I don’t feel fine. Look, this is a pop culture blog so I’m not going to get into the thick of it here. But I feel it bears mentioning that I’m extremely scared for the future of our country. We should be setting a good, progressive example for the rest of the world, yet…