Last Saturday, I attended a massive all-day concert down by Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. With a dry heat hovering around 75 degrees, the weather was freakishly...

Stories about the RIAA bullying music fans are so ubiquitous it's nearly...

My memories of the several years I've attended the Vans Warped Tour are as foggy as the next person's,...

Something is afoot in the dank D.I.Y. venues of New York. It seems like almost overnight, the stupid-happy, rainbow-colored, Sesame Street-themed, keyboard...

There is a shit ton of good music out right now. If I didn’t have a job to go to, I would sit in my room all day reading blogs, acquiring new tunes, and...

It's no secret that Trent Reznor is awesome. He's brought industrial music to the forefront and given the...

Does your town suck? Are you bored as hell? Got a band but no place to play? Or maybe you live in a city where the only venues to see live music are greedy,...

Maynard James Keenan doesn't do many interviews. But when he does, one thing is certain: it is never your run of the mill chit chat. Last October, SuicideGirls...

Los Angeles International Airport... en route to SXSW... I sit on the floor of the terminal, waiting to board,...

It has always been frustrating for me to read new CD reviews … What are the critics saying about ____? The more important questions have always...

As I write this, I’m sitting in an RV somewhere between Atlanta, GA and Tallahasse, Florida. I’m hung over, coughing my lungs out, mildly disoriented, menaced...

Deep in Greenpoint, Brooklyn--amid crumbling warehouses, ancient Polish bread factories, punk rock dives and luxury high rises--O'death...

American Idol said goodbye to four of its contestants Thursday night: Colton Berry, Garrett Haley, Joanne Borgella and Amy Davis.

I’ve been watching...

On February 12th, I wrote the following news story:

"I’ve never been a big fan of Yoko Ono. Though had you previously asked me to justify this opinion,...

We huffed the skies into our mouths/We saw the ocean and drank it down/Cause we were giants, or maybe birds/We slept with lions, tucked into their fur....

Line.

This seemingly simple, one syllable word is capable of eliciting such a variety of reactions. Drug users’ hearts sing and soar, palpitating...

Since I have yet to see an overview of the music of 2007 on SG, I thought I’d share my top ten albums of the year.



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Happy Holidays boys and girls! This is one of those good news-bad news columns. I’m spending a lot of time on the road doing free seminars and helping...

I was first introduced to Sri Lankan/English hip hop artist, visual disruptor, politico, and all-around sexy force...

What's fruity, stinky and ridiculously cute? Millenial anti-folk duo The Moldy Peaches,...

Anyone who's ever been to a Dan Deacon show knows one irrefutable fact...

My SG column turns 21 today and instead of the traditional coming of age, puking in the bathroom of the club from rohypnol-induced memory lapse morning...

Most of you indie aficionados already know that Sufjan Stevens...

Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco once confided to me that there was this, from-the-hip,...

According to an item posted Tuesday on Pitchfork, it is likely that prince...

Nirvana Unplugged was released on DVD for the first time this week. I always feel a little self-conscious around...

Happy Thanksgiving – to celebrate – give yourself a free t-shirt when you buy a copy of the book from our new superfast merchandise service Merch...

After a crazy year of touring, releasing albums, wearing dresses, performing pretend fellatio on on each other, and...

"Enigmatic is a misnomer. Most likely a byproduct of my absence in the press. An assumption arrived at due to the...

The second day of CMJ was far crazier than the first. I stumbled upon a day party put on by Indaba...

They eat their young with a side of organic tofu and valet parking...

Sorry, that’s Valley Parking...

As I said somewhat belatedly to those present...

How do I start this?
At the outset of this year's CMJ (College Music Journal)...

If you like a little bloodshed with your hip hop, you're in luck. Definitive...

A crazy week for sure. I cannot start dishing out information without mentioning the passing of bassist, artist and my bandmate Paul Raven. He was a charming,...

I had the privilege of meeting Morrissey at a record signing in the mid-nineties when I was a scrawny, flat-chested,...

As you probably already know, Radiohead has made their new album available for...

Year Zero was an awesome album, partly because of the insanely...

You clicked on the title thinking there would be some naughty drug pictures in here, didn't you? Well I've got something...

I know sometimes I can just go off on an ADD tangent – so, here is maybe some of the more important stuff that you’d look to this column to provide. But,...

Fujiya and Miyagi played the Bowery Ballroom here in NYC last week, and...