Radiohead appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show last night but they recorded the clip in London rather then on location in NYC. Thom Yorke explains the environmental reasons at the beginning of the clip (”every time you fly to New York, it’s the equivalent to driving your car for a whole year.”) Yorke also takes a […]

I’m a big Last.FM fan. One of my favorite things to do is to listen to the tag radio stations (and similar artist radio and lots of the other features there, but this article is about the tag radio so let’s try to show some focus here!)
In this blog post I’m going to listen […]

How does one say this about that, I ask you. Do you know? There seem to be certain themes in music that hold a power over the listener. The idea of John Lennon’s “Real Love” and Joy Division’s “Isolation” both express something longing and unattainable to where the music is almost creating […]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of RateYourMusic.com and I thought it would be interesting to look at what their users #1 album is for each year starting in 1964 through today (as of right now, the rankings are fluid of course because new ones are always being added.)
Just to be clear […]

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are quite popular on MySpace, they have over 47 million plays thus far and they are currently ranked #4 among unsigned bands. In the past I’ve found that most of the most popular groups on MySpace tend to suck ass as MySpace is filled with kids who don’t know anything about […]

Weezer’s 3rd self titled album (and 6th overall) is scheduled to be released on June 24th and is being called “The Red Album” due to it’s album cover (see it below.) This goes along nicely with their previous “blue” & “green” self titled albums.
Here’s the cover:

Tracklisting:
1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on […]

You can hear Portishead’s new album, Third, streaming on Last.FM
Third is their third album and it’s their first new one since their self titled album which I mentioned yesterday in my article about great albums from 1997.
The album can be pre ordered on Amazon.com now. It’ll be released in the US next Tuesday.

I’m not someone who’s really into guitar wankery or skill for skill’s sake so you won’t see Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen on my list. My favorite guitarists tend to be dudes that get a bit experimental with the sounds they get out of the guitar not guys who like to show how many different […]

What a great song, righting all of society’s wrongs. In short, the ultimate corporate anthem; and I am being entirely serious. We are talking about the “Duty Now for the Future” release in the year of our L. Ron 1979. This is some funky disco nightmare, it is edgy and to the […]

A little ways back I did story on three of my favorite albums from 1998. But 1998 was never a year that really stood out for me (Despite In the Aeroplane over the Sea which is one of my favorite albums), the year before on the other hand is almost certainly my favorite year of […]