Last night, during the second showing of Rock of Love Bus on VH1 (shh), I saw an ad for a band called Company of Thieves. The ad was a normal TV spot, except for a few things: it didn't seem to mention what label they were on, and I had never heard of them before. A little research turned up that th...

Let me be up front with you here about a couple of things: 1.) Anamanugachi make chiptune music, which sounds like the music from old NES games, and is often made using modified 8-bit equipment; and 2.) they are actually enjoyable to listen to. I realize that these two things might not necessarily s...

After making some disparaging comments about a misunderstood perception of "The Radiohead Model" (which Maura helpfully defined correctly) and kicking up a consequent shitstorm, Cure lead singer Robert Smith has, refreshingly, expanded on his ideas rather than backing away from them—though, re...

Ball-Hog Or Tugboat? was Mike Watt's first solo album, and when it came out in 1995, I had never heard of the Minutemen. But I bought it anyway because of "Against the '70s," which was about the '70s being bad (of which I was aware) and was sung by Eddie Vedder (of whom I was very, very aware). When...

This may be a bad time to try and stir up sympathy for concert-promoting behemoth Live Nation, what with its impending merger with Tickemtaster and Congressional hearings and all, but if ever there was a way to do it, well, this would be it: Suggest that it could stand to take some tips from the air...

There seem to be two discrete ways of approaching the new U2 album. One, exemplified by a review on the Jim DeRogatis/Greg Kot radio show Sound Opinions , is to look at the fact that they've employed Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for some tracks and write off the big stadium rockers to paint the album...

There are a lot of famous anecdotes about our 36th president, and a strange number of them involve the bathroom. In one, a female reporter is trying to get Johnson to answer some questions, and Johnson agrees on the condition that she hold his pecker while he pee; in another, he goes to relieve hims...

We've all missed the White Stripes. The more time we had to appreciate them, the more valuable their particular transcendent weirdness seemed, the more unique their particular chemistry. And it's a good shorthand symbol for Conan O'Brien's appeal that he got Meg and Jack to reunite and play "We're G...

ARTIST: Yeah Yeah Yeahs TITLE: It's Blitz! RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2009 WEB DEBUT: Feb. 23, 2009 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: If your first sight of Karen O was her pouring beer all over her hipster-trash outfit in a frantic, sweaty Brownie's, you might have been surprised when the band's first album was rel...

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog It was a good night for Idolator faves at the Oscars last night. A.R. Rahman won twice, both for his original score and for the song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire. But you know that already. You might not know about James Franco. What's not to love about James Franco...