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12 Minutes – June 22nd 2009

In what we are hoping to become a regular feature, here is our first installment of 12 minutes. The concept – find  4 music videos (4 videos x 3minutes [approx.] = 12 minutes) and aggregate them here for you. These videos may be old, they may be new, they maybe live, but they probably won’t [...]

Weekly Round Up – June 21st 2009

Here comes the weekly round up father’s day edition. Hope you hooked your dad up with some cool schwag and didn’t complain when he burnt the burgers.

Mos Def wants to set-up the ultimate rap battle at the Superdome.

Beck – Sunday Morning (VU cover)

The A.V. club lists the “best” music of ‘09 (so far)
Help Polyvinyl [...]

Obits – I Blame You

It goes something like this: Pitchfork  –> Drive Like Jehu –> Hot Snakes –> Obits. So has been the career trajectory of Eric “Rick” Froberg aka Rick Fork aka Rick Farr.  For the benefit of full disclosure, I listened to my copies of the Pitchfork, Jehu and Hot Snakes records ad nauseum, so there wasn’t [...]

Weekly Round Up – June 6th 2009

Pitchfork produced a powder room performance of  players who procured payment to promote a  palliative for pillarists.
10 years after Napster, musicians are still getting screwed.
Sonic Youth gets profiled in the Guardian and their latest album, The Eternal, is streaming in full at iLike.
The A.V. Club writers list their Songs of Summer
Woxy.com counts down the “top [...]

Weekly Round Up – May 31st 2009

 

Sorry we took a week off – I know you were all lost without our insight and guidance into the what’s happening in the world of music. Real life got in the way (kids, houses, graduating), but we promise not to let if happen again. Besides nothing all that cool happened then anyhow.
So here’s what [...]

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