The NFL has announced the half-time performers for this years Super Bowl XLIII. It’s not Janet Jackson. It’s not a boy band. It’s Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. That sounds like a solid choice to me. I caught his last show at Giant Stadium this year in New Jersey and Bruce and the [...]
Products of Baltimore and celebrities in College Park, The Bridge has a sound that’s hard to describe; at its simplest, their music is improv-based, blues-tinged, funky rock ‘n’ roll.
…about sports, not music. Little Wayne – Weezy F. Baby – was recently speaking with ESPN The Magazine about baseball, in particularly about the music they choose to play while the walk up to bat. It turns out, a lot of people like to listen to Lil Wayne before they compete in athletic events. Anyway, [...]
The boys of Wilco are feeling in the giving mood. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the Cubbies have locked up the NL Central and are heading to the playoffs… or perhaps they just want people to vote in the upcoming Presidential Election. Anyway, if you head over to WilcoWorld.net and pledge [...]
The downtrodden record industry is gearing up for a big moves come this holiday season. The move is aimed at increasing record sales in retail stores by selling the music on mini, fingernail sized flash cards. These cards will be able to “loaded into some mobile phones, digital music players and car stereos.” You heard [...]
So this might not be “news” as much as a “rant.” Call it what you will, it’s an issue as far as I’m concerned, and a pressing one at that.
James Zabiela just announced a November 8th set at Ibiza nightclub! I fell in love with this guys house/breakbeat/techno mixes after seeing Richie Hawtin at Virgin [...]
This past weekend, former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, and DJ Adam Goldstein (better know as DJ AM) were in a devastating plane crash in South Carolina. The crash killed four (pilot Sarah Lemmon, co-pilot James Bland, Chris Baker, and Charles Still) and left Barker and DJ AM with severe second and third degree burns. [...]
Two years ago, the Cold War Kids and their debut album Robbers & Cowards quickly became one of my favorites. It has been awhile since we’ve heard any new tunes from the boys, but they’ve got some on the way. Their new album Loyalty to Loyalty will be out September 23; but, you don’t have [...]
Times are a-changin’: Langerado, a festival which has been held for the last six years in the scenic Everglades, has officially been moved to Miami.
This next Langerado, according to the official website, “is moving to the magic city”. Still the same weekend, March 6-8, the festival has been moved to a slightly different location. On [...]
That’s Total Request Live, Ta Ta For Now - Total Request Live (aka TRL to all us Gen-Yers), MTV’s daily afternoon count-down program is officially on its way out the door. The show premiered September 14, 1998. It was filmed in that cool little room in Times Square, celebrities came and went, tweens screamed and cried, and somewhere in [...]
