With the economy crumbling, layoffs skyrocketing, the Virgin Mary showing up in people’s MRI’s, and scientists discovering fucked up squids with elbows,...

Nine years since the festival's beginning, ATP returns for what seems the most eclectic edition to date. In September Hunter gave you a review of ATP...

Over this last weekend, through personal experience, conversations out in L.A. at the Remix Hotel and at Swingers restaurant with my friend Ken Lopez, and...

This is the first installment of Sound Advice. As your mixstress, I hope to build a space where you may discover new (or maybe just new to you) sounds from...

Music moves fast. In the time I've spent recovering from All Tomorrow's Parties, countless tours, albums, and hijinx have gone down against a...

(image) Break out the Tripp pants and chain wallets, Chigaco heavyweights Disturbed have scheduled a fourth outing for their Music As A Weapon package.

It's been a while since my last Tour Smart post, so, welcome back me! I actually didn't feel like I had left. What's happened since we last...

William Control (a.k.a. wiL Francis from Aiden) has dropped a special Halloween treat for fans on his website. Click HERE to view the twisted and gorgeous...

(video) Instead of blowing a pile of cash on a music video the usual way, DJ, producer, musician, and left field thinker Moby decided to offer a $10,000...

(image) Reports are coming in that former Marilyn Manson band member Brad Stewart (a.k.a. Gidget Gein) has died. His body was apparently found at his Burbank...

(image) " An exhibition of Bob Gruen's work opens on October 11 and runs through November 2 at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in Los Angeles.

SoCal rocker's Lit are organizing an all star auction to raise funds to cover medical expenses incurred by their drummer Allen Shellenberger, who was...

(image) The Crystal Method have released a seasonal remix of their classic dance anthem Now Is The Time. Their rather excellent Vote '08 Remix features...

(image) What happens when you take a crumbling mountain resort, cram it full of the best depressing music of the last twenty years, invite the mid-thirties...

The ever-fabulous Margaret Cho has released a single on iTunes this week. The track, "I Cho Am A Woman," was produced by the man behind Cher and...

(image) An email randomly popped into my inbox posing the question: Elsiane...Next Bjork? After checking out the Canadian outfit's debut album, Hybrid,...

(image) (image) Orange County’s Spare The Air was the music festival that made bus passes cool. Held at the Fullerton Transportation Center, headliners...

Attention Weezer fans! Hot on the heels of the band's "Pork and Beans" music video crammed with YouTube celeb cameos comes another video...

I steal music on the Internet. Chances are, you do, too. It’s 2008, and every music fan under the age of 30 knows how to download the latest MGMT album...

And how was the Summercase on Saturday??? I can't tell you the 100% of it because I drank too much. Nah, it's never too much. I arrived at the...

The hangover is over (hah!) What inspired me to end with such a terrible hangover? The answer is Summercase festival. Friday afternoon, that's when...

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 becoming white noise. The association has been trying to kill ants with a...

My memories of the several years I've attended the Vans Warped Tour are as foggy as the next person's, though there are a few that perforate the...

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 dark side of ourselves a kickass soundtrack.

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,...

(image) Los Angeles International Airport... en route to SXSW... I sit on the floor of the terminal, waiting to board, hoodie pulled over my eyes to avoid...

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

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,...

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

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

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 with...

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. (image) 10. Beirut – The Flying Club...

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...

(image) I was first introduced to Sri Lankan/English hip hop artist, visual disruptor, politico, and all-around sexy force of nature M.I.A. in March of...