Review: Stars, In Our Bedroom After the War
I hate to keep mentioning Pitchfork in every RTP review, but after seeing this pre-cursor to their review of Stars’ latest offering, I couldn’t resist:
“Not out in record stores until late September, the Canadian indie pop band and its label Arts & Crafts wisely made its theatrical new album available for digital sales before it […]
Eddie and George Sitting in a [Censored] Tree, @-!-#-%-I-N-G
I know I’ve mentioned on this blog before that Eddie Vedder was perhaps singlehandedly responsible for me picking up a guitar. Note to guitar students: it’s very difficult to learn how to play Pearl Jam songs on the guitar by continually pausing their MTV Unplugged performance and trying to shape your fingers like Stone Gossard’s.
How […]
DA-worthy?
A reader recently wrote in to RTP asking:
“As Lollapalooza descends upon us, I have to wonder, is Perry Ferrell a douchebag? He’s clearly very media savvy, and quite the little business man. He loves Chicago and loves Mayor Daley, and I like that about him. The question is: do you think he should be allowed […]
Midlake 116 years young
It’s the Just For Men - Beard and Mustache coloring that makes them look so young and get all of the hot 40-something babes. The rumor on TMZ.com is the drummer was a warship gunman in WWI (A New Hope) which is where he got the idea for so many hot beats.
There […]




