Yesterday we posted a clip of Kim Deal doing the Amps' "Bragging Party" with her sister and Deerhunter. Her fellow Pixie Frank Black's collaborators on "Where Is My Mind" are much younger than Cox &…   Read Story »

It's hard to say for sure, but this link at www.ainr.com does look like evidence that something, namely a new record called Minotaur, is afoot. The page specifies that pre-order is 6/15. (A+R/Artists…   Read Story »

Jessica unearthed plenty of info about the Rentals' year-long multi-media project Songs About Time in her Progress Report: Stream the Joey Santiago-guesting mini album number one The Story Of A…   Read Story »

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. For the cover story, Bob…   Read Story »

In the December issue of Blender, the magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the "The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph:Mumbled lyrics,…   Read Story »

We feel compelled to make some sort of Mogwai and Pixies joke -- you know, Gremlins versus those cute winged things (and Bob Geldof's daughter) -- but the Scottish noise-gazers do such a overloaded,…   Read Story »

Black Francis's Bluefinger LP -- a collection of Herman Brood referencing tunes, of course -- is out in the US next week. Kanye, Fifty, get ready! But it's a recently excavated A/V treat from Pixies…   Read Story »

While Frank Black is busy snuffing out hopes for another Pixies record, let's start the week with this sweet cover from ex-Big Dish man Steven Lindsay, who casts an angsty, androgynous kid in a…   Read Story »

Scottish post-rockers and Zidane soundtrackers Mogwai will cover Pixies' "Gouge Away" on an upcoming tribute to the band, set for November 13th release on American Laundromat Records. The label's…   Read Story »

Someone get this man a light meter! Black Francis is a spectral vision with a guitar thanks to the white balance in this clip for ""Don't Get Me Wrong" from the forthcoming CD/DVD set Christmass, due…   Read Story »