Steven Rubio discusses the inevitable failure to recreate the sound of the past, even when you have all the tunes: I know exactly what he's talking...

I don't know about you, but I needed some cheering up today. I tried a few methods, but here are the ones that ended up working for me, courtesy of...

"Rock musicians really are a pathetic lot," says Ben Weasel, commenting on the Grammys, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc.: I second that...

The Sex Pistols RSVP to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Punksters. Yay.

I admit, before Andrew Sullivan linked to the story, I'd never heard of Deeyah, the Iranian-British-Norwegian singer known as the "Muslim Madonna."...

The Sun reports on a genuine rock and roll hero and sacrificial lamb: The article doesn't specify which song Li Xiao Meng was airguitaring to. Whatever...

Three tracks from the long-awaited, -ridiculed, -derided, cheap joke factory known as Chinese Democracy by "Guns 'n' Roses" have leaked...

There's a fourth installment of Morrissey's A's to fans' Q's in the Morrissey digital fanzine True to You. Among other things,...

Mogwai's Blur-baiting is a well-trodden path with few, if any, surprises. But, that said, this faux-Albarn soliloquy from Barry Burns is about as...

Larry Livermore reports on a night spent watching Australian TV. Around halfway through the post there's a kind of personal review of Don Letts's...

Rolling Stone reports on the forthcoming, nine disc Billy Bragg box set, Volume I: One thing I didn't know is that he's working on a book, England...

The new Ray Davies solo album Other People's Lives comes out tomorrow, and it's a winner according to this Associated Press preview. I just snagged...

I've never heard the term "pomp rock" before, but I do get the idea from this amusing review of the "Spinal Tapestry" on exhibit...

Back in October, Scott W. from WFMU posted this, "concerning the most utterly mediocre music ever made, and the earth-shatteringly banal (and interchangeable)...

Dan DeLuca of the Philadelphia Inquirer examines the British "next-big-thing-machine" and gives the Arctic Monkeys three out of four stars. He...

Love him or hate him, Michael Jackson is a bit like a trainwreck... so horrible, yet you can't look away. But after the turmoil of his child molestation...

Relive 1985, courtesy of WFMU, with this clip of metal-heads hanging out outside Studio 54, waiting for the Slayer/Exodus/Venom show. (Warning: may contain...

Clive Davis describes it as "the ultimate in niche blogging": a site dedicated entirely to the study and celebration of the song "St. James...

It is strange to remember these days, but late night talk show host Tom Snyder probably did more to bring punk rock to the attention of mainstream America...

Until this Prefix magazine blog post, I wasn't even aware of Rick Moranis's comedy/country album Agoraphobic Cowboy, even though it was reportedly...

Popfactor points to this brilliant Field Music remix of Maximo Park's "I Want You to Stay," and says that it sounds: Me neither. Download...

The Rolling Stones are to play a free show at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, and they expect two million people to show up. According to the city's...

"Prepare to have your mind blown," advised WFMU's Hatch, linking to this video of a five year old recreating Bob Dylan's iconic cue-card...

Tris X over at Ytossie Fandango posts a hilarious, detailed account of a morning spent watching the Top 20 Videos programs on CMT and GAC. Here's #9:

Remember Gizmodo's contest for the best song based around Hitachi's library of defective hard drive sounds? Well, the winner has been announced,...

After saying that the White Stripes were "out of the club" for letting Coca-Cola use a song in an ad, it appears that Noel Gallagher has rethought...

The NME reports on the forthcoming biopic of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, which has now been officially cast: New Order is going to record new tracks...

On Valentine's Day, Diamanda Galás will be peforming "Diamanda’s Valentine’s Day Massacre" at the Knitting Factory in New York City. With...

The file sharing question just got a little knottier and nuttier. According to this MTV.com article, the RIAA is "monitoring" and "planning...

John at Things I'd Rather Be Doing aptly likens Continuum's 33 1/3 series of books on albums to "having a one-sided conversation with a friend...

I tried, but I couldn't manage to work up enough interest to pay even a tiny sliver of attention to the Grammy Awards. OK, I didn't actually...

No one who has ever tried to play a theremin can fail to be astounded by the skill and control of virtuoso thereminist Pamelia Kurstin: Music for Maniacs...

Mick Hucknall of Simply Red free associates on the general subject of his own wonderfulness in a piece in the Observer that has little right to existence...

The David Hasselhoff video currently posted on Weak Nights really defies description, though Pekin, God bless him, really gives it a shot with a lengthy...

ABC wasn't taking any risks in its broadcast of the Superbowl halftime show this time around. They ran the whole game on a five second delay and actually...

Music Thing profiles what has to be just about the coolest instrument ever: Richard Water's Waterphone! It has been used to make weird, unearthly...

I have owned a scratchy copy of this Batman and Robin album since I picked it up at a Salvation Army some time in the '70s, but I never knew this:...

If you feel like wasting some time and annoying your neighbors (and who wouldn't?) here's a good way: a Flash synth board for creating your own...

Would you like to hear six versions of Joseph Arthur's song "In the Sun," performed by, mixed by, appearing in, and/or "featuring"...

The Village Voice's Pazz and Jop Critics Poll is up. It is slick. It is massive. It is full of pointy-headed essays about how pointy-headed essays...