The Flaming Lips will be performing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien tonight. The Lips segment on the show will air around 12:30 AM EST (tune in a bit before that to make sure you catch it) on NBC. Their new 18 track studio album, Embryonic, was released today and can be ordered online [...]

I didn’t bother last week, and I may not bother again next week! But this week I’m back at it. What follows are four albums being released tomorrow that you may (or may not) want to check out. The Flaming Lips – Embyronic On my shortlist for album of the year. This is the most [...]

I understand that this blog primarily caters to Hipster/Indie/Retro vibes, but I got to bring your ass back to the source of some good motherfucking music, motherfuckers. I am talking about my main man Biggie Smalls, what the fuck? I am going to focus on the hottest tracks from his two proper studio albums, “Ready [...]

As a follow-up to my sloppy half-assed top 25 albums of the 2000s list, here’s a similarly half-assed top 25 list for the 1990s. Which I actually found much easier to compile. I guess that’s because I’m getting old. These albums are listed by band/artist name, alphabetically. For me it’s hard enough to come up [...]

If you use a Mac and you want to get into recording & mixing your own music (or upgrade the recording software you use now) you should consider Apple’s Logic Studio instead of Pro Tools. This is extremely intuitive software that comes with all of the tools you need to make professional sounding music (except [...]

I’ve come across this information on 2008 album sale totals and I found it interesting enough to want to pass it along: About 115,000 new albums were released in 2008. 110 of those sold over 250,000 copies. About 1,500 of them sold over 10,000 copies. And about 6,000 of them sold over 1,000 copies. That [...]

A new Michael Jackson single will be unveiled on October 12th on his official website. The song is titled “This Is It” and it features backing vocals by his brothers. The song will be included on a new compilation album being released on October 27th. It closes out disc 1 one of the double disc [...]

It’s getting to be that time when people start compiling their “best of” lists for the decade (although we’ve still got about three months left of it.) So I’m jumping in on this due to all of the peer pressure. I’m doing a top 25 list but it’s not ranked in order. Instead it’s alphabetical [...]

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said in a recent interview (with NME) that Radiohead will definitely be releasing a new album in 2010 in CD, vinyl, and (of course) download formats. This contradicts an interview that Thom Yorke gave a couple of months ago where he indicated that Radiohead wasn’t planning on recording another album any [...]

According to this listing on Amazon.com, Animal Collective will be releasing their second album of 2009 on December 8th: Fall Be Kind. There’s no information about this album except that it’s out on December 8th and that it’ll be available in both CD & vinyl (along with download versions I’m sure.) Merriweather Post Pavillion was [...]