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Mr. Show's Three Best Fake Bands

Posted in Music Apr 24, 2006 by eliotvb

What a brilliant idea… Stereogum tracked down what they call the three best fake bands from the...

In case you missed it before, Neil Young plans on releasing a protest album that will call for President...

A guy named Adam Kontras really has it in for President Bush, creating a pretty decent video about his supposed plans to bomb Iran and posting it on LetsBombIran.com.

One of the best shows I've ever seen in my life was the San Francisco stop on Primal Scream's XTRMNTR tour. Goodness gracious… there's Mani from the Stone...

On April 25th, the label Shout! Factory will release a Red Hot & Blue DVD/CD of Cole Porter cover songs in order to benefit AIDS research. If this sounds...

Unlike just about every comedian in the country, I am completely over brokeback jokes. But I still couldn't help notice a brokeback reference embedded in...

A metalhead named Jesse Maggrah was struck by a hammer of the gods in the form of a Canadian Pacific Railway train while listening to the Norwegian band...

The mainstream press has picked up on the Opticon, a device you can supposedly...

It's no secret that celebrities who would never dare be affiliated with ad campaigns in America have no problem going over to Japan to shoot all manner...

Mickey Avalon Is Way Too Horny

Posted in Music Apr 17, 2006 by eliotvb

In German, the word for "horny" (geil) is the same as the word for "hot." LA rapper Mickey Avalon isn't from...

By this point, we've all probably heard our fair share of crappy mash-ups. It takes real arranging skill to make one that actually works as a song in its...

What is it about the now-defunct rock band Kiss that inspires so much tribute? It was the first band to get merchandized out the wazoo, lending their likenesses...

Remember Slowdive? To my ear, there's still nothing that sounds like them; melancholy has never sounded so beautiful. From what I understand, the band consumed...

Most of us have already seen a video clip of John Ashcroft singing a song he wrote about America, called "Let the Eagle Soar." But as it turns out, that...

Having finagled a press pass to This Ain't No Picnic 2001, a now-defunct (as far as I know) outdoor music festival held in Irvine, CA, I was able to badge-flash...

I wish there was an entire genre of music consisting of songs that go well with lying in the couch watching sun stream in through the window on a lazy Sunday...

The Eagles of Death Metal are neither eagles, nor do they play death metal. They also get criticized every...

In the UK, it's been possible for years to use a service called Shazam on your cellphone to identify songs, wherever you happen to be. You just dial a code,...

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