According to this story on Billboard, Michael Jackson has sold over 30 million copies of his albums around the world since his death one year ago (June 25, 2009.) In the US alone, MJ has sold over 9 million copies of his albums in the past year. On top of that he has sold over [...]

Today at 3:30PM EST Paul McCartney is performing a benefit concert which is going to be streamed live on the Born HIV Free YouTube Channel. In other cool McCartney related news, I appreciate that he is refusing to apologize for the joke he made about George W. Bush when he was collecting the Gerswin Prize [...]

Radiohead has released seven studio albums to date. What if you were to take the top two most played tracks on Last.FM (using the last 6 months rankings) from each of those albums and put them on a mix? It seems like this mix would be a pretty good introductory overview of Radiohead’s career to [...]

It’s hard for me to believe it’s already been a full year since Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 but by looking at the calendar I know that is the case. I don’t have anything interesting to say really, but I do have a cool MJ related article (on the making of the “Thriller” [...]

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said that a new Radiohead album is likely to be coming out sometime this year in a recent BBC interview (on Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape.) A choice tidbit from the interview: “I’m really excited… I feel like this is the best record we ever made. It really is genuinely exciting. It’s [...]

The Beatles USB is back in stock. It had been sold out for quite some time so now that Amazon has more of them I thought I should share the good news (especially since I know from my StatCounter that a lot of people come to this site looking for it.) The Beatles USB is [...]

OK Go have a reputation for inventive music videos (click here for a post from January on some of their earlier videos) and their latest (for “End Love”) is definitely not going to do anything to hurt that reputation. In fact, I think it’s their most interesting one yet. Check out what Jeff Lieberman (who [...]

I’ve been making an effort to give a good open ear to as many of the critically acclaimed albums of the year as I can make time for. My playlist on Winamp (all of these albums can be downloaded from AmazonMP3) includes 30 of these albums and what follows are my initial reactions to them. [...]

Through 11PM EST (it started at 2PM) you can watch live as 20 cats listen to Devo’s first album in 20 years, Something for Everybody, on UStream. Click Here to check it out.

There is a reason why Heavy Metal attracts more guys than girls. Why? Because you can barely understand the lyrics. Metal is surrounded by a crazy drummer playing heavy double bass beats accompanied by a couple of guitarists playing the fattest riffs as loud as possible. Truly head-banging music. Girls, in general, do not recognize [...]