Kurt Cobear


Vampire Weekend performing “Oxford Comma” for about twelve people on a blanket in the park.

Look at what Quirken found. Kinda cool…

A chance to tell Pitchfork you only read them to look cool

That’s the opportunity you’ve been presented with on this glorious Friday morning via the 2007 Pitchfork Media Reader Survey.
Finally, a chance to formally request more metaphors dripping with obscure adjectives, more American Apparel ads, more e-blow jobs for Steve Malkmus, and more fodder for the unspoken competition between Pitchfork and Reckless Records for who’s the […]

Chicago Spotlight: Coupleskate

Sometimes it seems like there’s a shortage of really good all girl bands in Chicago, which is why it’s refreshing to stumble upon a troupe like Coupleskate. I’d try and describe them, but the description on their MySpace page really says it all:
Inspired by their shared affection for the indie rock canon (e.g. the Pixies, […]

Another Radiohead Post: What’s going to happen at 10pm GMT?

Your guess is as good as mine. First thing’s first: find out what time that is here in these, the States. I have a prize for the first person to post the answer. Central time preferred.
From Dead Air Space:
helo
there will be something on the box tonight
its another test
but right now we are entangled in cables
however
weather […]

$0 for In Rainbows

The AP reports today that 62 percent of Radiohead fans did not pay for the download of In Rainbows, and the average the other 38 percent voluntarily paid was $6
RTP is shocked an appalled by the senseless act and we are doing everything in our power to give a shit. /sarcastic remark
Honestly, what […]

Love Is Simple

On their newest album, Love Is Simple, Akron / Family succeeds because it is unafraid of failure. They lack pretension and this allows their ideas to pour forth without filtering them through preconceptions of what might be cool or new. As such, on this album you will find some of the most affecting songs […]

Peter Morén and his album of future rockommercial songs.

We all fell in love with Peter Bjorn and John’s last album Writer’s Block and why shouldn’t we? Remember that scene in Back to the Future where Marty is playing “Johnny B Goode” and Marvin Berry is calling his cousin Chuck to let him hear what will eventually be that great new sound he’s […]