Archives for April 2007

Just in time for Easter, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone resurrected my faith in music. There are a whole lot of perks to being a rock critic ‚Äì free records, free shows, and working in sweatpants most of time among them ‚Äì but the problem is that after a while, you begin to hate music. […]

Via Idolator “Earth Intruders” is the first song from Bjork’s Volta to make its way to the Internet, and it’s got a big, messy backbeat by Timbaland, additional percussion by the thumb-piano players Konono N¬∞1, and the enigmatic Icelandic singer surveying the carnage that surrounds her. Download Earth Intruders

Vice investigates Greenpoint’s Oil Spill. Turns out Williamsburg/Greenpoint is “the most toxic neighborhood” in NY.

Iggy Pop, ‚”I Wanna Be Your Dog” It’s IGGY FUCKING POP. Do you need another reason? Show details: Mon 4/09 7:00 PM Iggy and the Stooges United Palace Theatre All Ages $39.50 -Cortney Harding

This video is hilarious, even if it’s a bit derivative of this makeover we did for a writer at Entertainment Weekly, uh, 4 years ago. [Video via Gawker & Imaginary Socialite]

Toronto-based post-punkers the Creeping Nobodies might have started as a one-off collaboration at a Fall tribute show, but they have come a long way from imitating Mark E. Smith for kicks. The Nobodies are touring in support of their latest record, ‚”Sound of Joy,” which was released in May 2006 on Toronto’s Blocks Recording Club […]

Webzine nemu.com described Erase Errata as ‚”post-riot-grrl, post-feminist, and post-punk.” Maybe they’re better defined as the pre-eminent art noise band of the decade. Cited as favorites by godfathers of feedback Sonic Youth, Erase Errata caught some flack last year when a line-up change resulted in their usually chaotic noise gaining some discipline. They certainly haven’t […]

This looks like a trailer to some unmade horror movie where Cheney leads a minion of Zombie Pod-People at the onset of Armageddon. [Via Huffpost]

We’re voting for Myspace Tom From HuffingtonPost It’s true, and it’s a brilliant marketing gimmick if not exactly the most electorally sound: MySpace will be inviting each of its members to vote in their very own primary on January 1st and 2nd, 2008, prior to any of the state primaries. Said MySpace president Tom Anderson […]