You know how I've been threatening to get weird with this column, to start including late-night performances and whatever other random bits of music-related video that might find their way on this…   Read Story »

Yesterday was Sub Pop's 25th birthday. In some respects, it's hard to believe it's only been 25 years. By way of comparison, Saddle Creek Records will turn 20 this year, and as far as my cultural…   Read Story »

Scuzzed-up punk lifers and Sub Pop OGs Mudhoney will release Vanishing Point, their new album, next month, and early track "I Like It Small," about loving tiny and unpopular things, is a pretty…   Read Story »

Singles was the second movie written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It's an amiable rom-com starring Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick, and some say a great movie, but is most notable because it was…   Read Story »

It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life, which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade…   Read Story »

At this point people know what to expect from Kutscher's: The faded Catskills resort's crumbling walls held together by mold, broken everything (we were forced to do our own DIY toilet plumbing,…   Read Story »

When the All Tomorrow's Parties festival first launched, the idea of canonizing an iconic album with a track-for-track live performance was still a novel concept. A decade later the album-recreation…   Read Story »

Over Labor Day weekend (9/3-9/5) Iggy and his Stooges do Raw Power, Sleep climb Holy Mountain (!), and you'll spot Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff at good ol' Kutsher's. More at ATP.   Read Story »

Which makes sense since the man that's missing is the one at 25% his former glory (generous!). This went down last night at the Seattle stop of Tom Morello's Justice Tour, which in the midst of…   Read Story »

Portland Filmmaker Dan Woods got a bunch of sorta-familiar indie rockers to sing "Gardenia," which is a fine backup plan when Stephen Malkmus is too much of a Jick to show up to his own video shoot.…   Read Story »