[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/CcXCaXz0GbU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] QOTSA has launched a mini-site to preview it’s new record, Era Vulgaris, due out June 12. The site streams a few new tracks and has a game to gain exclusive content. Everything I’ve heard so far sounds pretty rocking (like the first single, “Sick Sick Sick”), but I do […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/13TXPdCVxds” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Despite her recent mini-breakdown, I still can’t help but love Lily. This song is about her pot-smoking, slack-ass brother, Alfie.

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Police drummer Stewart Copeland told Billboard that he wants to bend the reunion rules the band agreed upon for its tour, only for its headlining Bonnaroo show. The rules, as I understand them, ban additional musicians and back-up singers, which I applaud. Why Copeland wants to break them for Bonnaroo is a mystery. Does he […]

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Billboard reports that the Anti- label is putting out a benefit CD/DVD for Healing the Divide’s Tibetan Health Initiative, featuring Tom Waits, Philip Glass, and Anoushka Shankar. The concert was held back in 2003 at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall. Waits played with Greg Cohen and the Kronos Quartet, and he makes up the bulk […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/9f_N36SfHL0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] William Reid looks like he and Robert Smith have been dining at the very same all you can eat buffet. They also seem to share a penchant for sporting jerseys to cover the girth. Alas, the brothers Reid look as bored as they always have. The new song is […]

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Asked by Guardian Unlimited to pony up the secret decoder for what makes its debut, Mirrored, tick, Battles throws out ten reference points, which predictably range from the obscure to the amusing to the nonsensical. Among them: The art of neo raunch “If there was ever an example of what the music of Battles “looks” […]

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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/yuSrsGzhD9U” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] My roommate in college had ‘Urgh! A Music War’ on VHS (and vinyl). Someone desperately needs to release it on DVD. We used to sit around and watch it constantly. So many amazing performances of punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts from The Police to The Fleshtones to […]

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