To Lafayette, Louisiana. For work, sadly, but I managed to take in a couple of hours of the acadian music festival going on over the weekend...

Yep, it's another quote from Truck . The set-up: Michael Perry travels to New York to meet with editors and publishers. While there, he...

I honestly believe that Downey is one of the greats of our generation. A lesser actor would have gone all furrowed-brow on this scene, but ...

Joe pointed me to a couple of the coolest Replacements interviews I've read all day. Paul and Tommy mostly reflect on the reissues and t...

Could this be ... the perfect song? "Friends," The Buzzcocks Well I've been up all night Couldn't get to dream at all Tryi...

I hop on a plane for Austin tomorrow to defend my dissertation. If the chips fall right, by Friday evening I will be out of my skull somewh...

Graham Parker live in Chicago, 1983. If nothing else, listen to 'Local Girls.'

This is pretty cool. Animoto lets you create movies using your own photos and music. A 30 second video is free; longer than that, and it...

Product description from Amazon.com : Van Duren is pure power pop. He spent time in the Memphis trenches with the big boys (Big Star, Chris ...

First show, December 1988. Broke up New Year's Day, 1992. European reunion tours, 1993, 1994. Anachronistic, surf-inflected garage punk ...

Remember that '80s movie, Valley Girl, that looked ridiculous, but was actually pretty good and had a great soundtrack? Remember the sc...

At the CD store, I ambushed the They Might Be Giants double CD of early stuff, B-sides and bonus tracks called Then, which contains the illu...

I really like Nick Cave but I can't claim to be a huge fan. I've only got a couple of albums ( Murder Ballads is an all-time fave) ...

Take or leave the pouty anime, but this song is the one that has been soothing the stress this week, so please enjoy. I'm back home fro...

Than listen to the Runaways' Kim Fowley produced debut. Fridays Taste Pleasing. Have a good weekend, Bastards.

If you guys are like me, you sometimes get an itch in your brain that can only be scratched by very, very, very, very, very, very loud punk ...

Submitted for your extreme displeasure, Metal Machine Music - disc one, side one. Anybody who claims to enjoy this is either mentally unba...

Elvis Costello and the Attractions, live from the Agora , December 5, 1977. Cleveland rocks! Here's Little Triggers for a sample. For ...