There will be a lot of retrospectives of Michael Jackson after yesterday’s shocking news. I’ll let others comment on his personal life. Sure that’s part of his story, but it’s because of his music that anyone cared about his personal life in the first place. Anyway, I’ve done quite a few of these Last.FM features [...]

As I’m sure you already know by now, Michael Jackson died today from cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old. I’m not going to do a big bio of Michael Jackson as you probably already know it and if you don’t there’s a million places online you can find it. Instead I want to talk [...]

1999 was ten years ago now. Yes, that means this decade is nearly over. And that also means we have many “best of the decade” lists to look forward to at the end of the year! Anyway, this article on 7 “must hear” albums of 1999 was inspired by a much lengthier list over at [...]

I won’t try to explain what Elephant 6 is, I’ll let them do that themselves on their new website. What I will say is that some of my favorite music of the last 20 years has been made by bands who are a part of the Elephant 6 collective/label/cult, most particularly The Olivia Tremor Control [...]

I just came across this story (almost a month after it was posted) and I’m very pleased to learn that not only does Circulatory System have a new album coming out (Signal Morning will be released September 8th) but that the Olivia Tremor Control has also been recording some new material that may end up [...]

The trailer for the new Beatles themed Rock Band game has been released. Check it out: The game will be available on 9/9/09 (number nine, number nine, number nine.) It can be pre-ordered online now. This date is also when the new remastered versions of all of The Beatles albums will be released. These new [...]