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Apr 12th, 2012 17 Comments
COACHELLA BACK. And, this year, the bacchanalia stretches across two weekends featuring identical lineups, as well as an interim week of non-Coachella shows in L.A., so if you’re looking for live…   Read Story »
Feb 27th, 2012 2 Comments
Girls' sophomore album Father, Son, Holy Ghost was our favorite LP of last year, and one of its standouts was "My Ma," frontman Christopher Owens's heartsick song for his mother. That song now has a…   Read Story »
Feb 13th, 2012 14 Comments
At the Laneway Festival in Singapore this past weekend, Girls frontman Christopher Owens paid tribute to the fallen Whitney Houston by playing a solo version of "I Will Always Love You," the Dolly…   Read Story »
Dec 29th, 2011 29 Comments
Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a…   Read Story »
Dec 22nd, 2011 40 Comments
Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those…   Read Story »
Dec 21st, 2011 147 Comments
It's been fun, but now it's time to wrap up the Gummy Awards with the big final list: your picks for the year's top 10 albums! And the final result is: You guys more or less agree with us! Every…   Read Story »
Dec 20th, 2011 144 Comments
The next stop on the Gummys express is Your Top 20 Indie Rock Crushes Of 2011; ten females, ten males, one Gosling. Hit the gallery to check out the winners of this award, truly the people's…   Read Story »
Dec 12th, 2011 107 Comments
Today we begin rolling out the results of this year's Gummy Awards: The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut…   Read Story »
Dec 8th, 2011 Comment
Recently anointed with the best album of the year, Girls delved deep into Orange County stopping off at the sonically and cosmetically remodeled Galaxy theater. Crowd surfing ensued as the band ran…   Read Story »
Dec 5th, 2011 415 Comments
2011 was the year music learned to float. Actually, that's not true at all; music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe…   Read Story »


































