Lots of nerds (like us) appreciate Del The Funky Homosapien for his sci-fi Deltron 3030 project with Dan “The Automator” Nakamura or his early, funny material like “If You Must.” We’re not sure “Get It Right Now”—a typical boast about his rhyming supremacy—is the apex of his creativity, but it’s decent, and it’s on the [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Green Day Late Late Show (CBS): The Decemberists CBS has all your divergent musical tendencies covered. Green Day’s got a 21st Century Breakdown; the Decemberists have the 19th century [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
A possible contender for official summerband ’09 is the Low Anthem, which is set to appear at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, the Newport Folk Festival and elsewhere. The Providence, R.I., outfit is seeing its 2008 album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, given a wide release via Nonesuch on June 9. The group generally kicks up a [...]
Rock ‘n’ roll collectibles company Aggronautix has debuted its GG Allin “throbblehead” doll, a limited-edition (2,000) effigy of late gross-out punk legend Allin. At seven inches tall, your li’l GG is accurately covered in tattoos, fecal matter and blood (not real blood or feces) and portrays him circa 1991. Also available is a throbblehead doll [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
If you listened to David Lowery—and you should always listen to David Lowery, because he had a dream last night but forgot what it was—you took his advice about Alabama roots-rock band Dexateens, who recently released Singlewide (Skybucket). It’s a double feature tonight; here’s a promo video for the album and the clip for leadoff [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Colbert Report (Comedy Central): Green Day Nice coup for Colbert, getting what’s arguably America’s biggest under-40 rock band. 21st Century Breakdown is out now, and we wasted no time in dividing our own readership [...]
John Wesley Harding knows when he gets an email, phone message or a piece of postal junk addressing him as “John,” it’s coming from someone who’s never met him. He’s known to friends as “Wes,” since his real name (the one he uses in his second career as an award-winning author) is Wesley Stace. Harding’s [...]
“Last thing I heard I was left for dead,” begins Jason Lytle on the first song and title track of his reappearing act, Yours Truly, The Commuter (released earlier this week on Anti-). The former Grandaddy frontman’s solo debut is an ELO-pop rainbow for downtrodden times, a personal reclamation project (read our Lytle cover story/Grandaddy [...]
