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Stephen Colbert Hijacks Jon Stewart’s Award Acceptance

Stephen Colbert Hijacks Jon Stewart’s Award Acceptance

Stephen Colbert is apparently tired of playing second fiddle to Jon Stewart and “The Daily Show.” After years of watching Stewart reap awards at all [...]

M.T. Bearington – Dark Night

M.T. Bearington – Dark Night

M.T. Bearington’s sophomore LP Love Buttons (out April 26th on Safety Meeting Records) is a patchwork collection of love songs, though perhaps not in the conventional sense. [...]

Kitten to Tour in April, Answering Questions Today (3/31) on Livestream

Kitten to Tour in April, Answering Questions Today (3/31) on Livestream

Have a question for Kitten? The band will be appearing on Livestream today, March 31st, at 4 pm EST for a session and Q & A. To participate [...]

AIDS Metaphor #37
words by Thomas Kearnes

AIDS Metaphor #37

Over an unseen intercom, a woman trills nursery rhymes in high, breathy notes. The music percolates like a melody from a jack-in-the-box. They are happy. They shriek, they jump, they wag their fingers. One boy shouts, “I love you!” But there is no one else in the room.

Holding Onto Sound to Tour West Coast

Holding Onto Sound to Tour West Coast

Las Vegas‘s favorite hardcore/reggae/ska/punk band is hitting the road. GC Records mainstay Holding Onto Sound will be going on a brief West Coast tour in [...]

Worst Website Names

Worst Website Names

Via Picture is Unrelated comes the top seven worst website names. I checked all of these and, sadly, numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7 no longer [...]

Corin Tucker Announces West Coast Dates

Corin Tucker Announces West Coast Dates

Corin Tucker and her band will be heading out on a brief, week-long West Coast tour in May. Formerly of Sleater-Kinney, Tucker released her latest [...]

Josh Homme to Appear on Forthcoming Arctic Monkeys Album

Josh Homme to Appear on Forthcoming Arctic Monkeys Album

Josh Homme, who produced the Arctic Monkeys‘ 2009 album Humbug will once again work with the band on their forthcoming album, Suck It and See. [...]

SO MUCH PRETTY by Cara Hoffman
reviewed by Paul J. Comeau

SO MUCH PRETTY by Cara Hoffman

Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, hardcover, $25.00 Cara Hoffman’s debut novel So Much Pretty is a dark and haunting tale of a crime that is [...]

Sidewalk Empire: Opiate of the Masses
by Eddie Ahn

Sidewalk Empire: Opiate of the Masses

Turtles like to drink coffee in San Francisco. Eddie Ahn’s website is ehacomics.com.

THEOPHILUS LONDON – Lover’s Holiday
reviewed by Dan Chapman

THEOPHILUS LONDON – Lover’s Holiday

Brooklyn rapper, songwriter, and producer Theophilus London intermingles retro funk with pristine rap and pop elements in his newest EP Lover’s Holiday. From start to finish [...]

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – The Best Of
reviewed by Dan Chapman

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – The Best Of

Between The Buried And Me’s recent The Best Of release fully embodies their atomically energetic sound with popular tracks from past albums, as well as [...]

Ode to Sick Of It All

Ode to Sick Of It All

Ode to Sick Of It All not by e.e. cummings Sick Of It All Sick Of It All crazy pit during Sick Of It All [...]

Show Review: Sick Of It All 25th Anniversary Show at Webster Hall, New York 3/26/11
words by Paul J. Comeau | photos by Peter Borghard

Show Review: Sick Of It All 25th Anniversary Show at Webster Hall, New York 3/26/11

SOIA played a sold-out anniversary show in New York.

Rebecca Black Was Merely Channeling The Beatles

Rebecca Black Was Merely Channeling The Beatles

This one comes courtesy of MemeBase on GraphJam — really, when it comes down to it, I think I like the Rebecca Black song better. [...]