A few months ago I was DJing metal and noise at what was more of a sweaty dance party than a space for metal and noise, but somehow Pyramids "Hellmonk" got people especially psyched: Arms in the air,…   Read Story »

Funeral was about family, and Neon Bible was about institutions. The Suburbs on first listen, feels like adolescence, the time when you're trapped between leaving one and joining the other. Will and…   Read Story »

When we posted "All Summer," the Converse-funded collaboration between Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, Kid Cudi, and Rostam Batmanglij, it was accompanied by a photo of the trio mugging with…   Read Story »

Australian trio PVT started as a quintet called Pivot -- after being sued by an American band of the same name, they removed the vowels. The band's released a couple of albums under the old moniker,…   Read Story »

NAME: Les Savy Fav PROGRESS REPORT: Releasing their fifth album, Root For Ruin. Recorded with Chris Zane at Gigantic Studios. Tim Harrington jumped onstage to sing “Precision Auto” with…   Read Story »

According to multiple sources (including a concert promoter and a canceled Neumo's show) King Khan & BBQ have broken up. The pair (Mark Sultan is the BBQ half) had run into problems in Australia…   Read Story »

A few years ago I wrote a positive review of CocoRosie's The Adventures of Ghosthorse And Stillborn. Too positive, it turns out: The publication that assigned it killed the piece at the 11th hour and…   Read Story »

I first saw Buke And Gass last summer at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series. They performed some of their songs on a bill where I did a reading about black metal (and,…   Read Story »

Hasn't Haiti suffered enough? The mildly anticipated retread of Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie's landmark "We Are The World" -- with 21st century flashes in the pan and abundant Auto-Tune in place…   Read Story »