Our boy The 1/3 turned us on to this important happening in June. A bunch of bands that longtime Buzzgrinder readers will recognize and appreciate are reuniting for a good cause. I just went ahead and re-posted the entire blog entry from The Huntingtons about the event. Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Ci...

:: About time Xbox gets a band that makes me want to buy a 360. March 19, you can play F.E.A.R. 2 with Mastodon on Xbox Live. :: Absolute Punk recently premiered a video for The Only One from Manchester Orchestra. Every song on the band’s new record will have a video, and each video will debut...

I have to suspend my hatred for all things Michigan (I am originally a Buckeye, after all) when it involves good bands. And such was the case for the Michigan Bailout Tour stop in Louisville — which included Javelins , The Hard Lessons and My Dear Disco — I couldn’t hold their Wolv...

Win Butler decided to stop stealing things from people long enough to respond to the recent attack from Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on the Arcade Fire. Seems like the dude might be a little butt-hurt. I’m really hoping for a full-blown beef here. We haven’t had one of those for a w...

Maybe Wayne Coyne thinks he can talk trash now that Oklahoma’s official rock song is a Flaming Lips jam. Then again, maybe Coyne just caught Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler stealing a basketball or cheating black people out of their music. Either way, he’s not too high on Arcade Fire the...

When I listen to Michael Zapruder’s latest solo effort (is it a solo album if you have 15 people on the album?), I get a lot of stuff. There’s some Rufus Wainwright, Arcade Fire, Vic Chesnutt, and maybe even a little Beck. Then there’s the wide range of instrumentation. Some songs ...

Rumors have been circulating that Weezer will be the opener for the upcoming Blink 182 reunion tour. Now I know that Weezer is only a shell of its former self in terms of street cred and quality, but seeing Rivers and the boys priming the crowd to hear What’s My Age Again round two — a.k...

I missed this video shoot because I’m a lazy bum and used to sleep until 4:00 p.m. most days. I’m pretty sure it was filmed at the Pour Haus, too. Not that any of you non-Louisvillians know/care. What you may know/care about is that Young Widows slays, and this is a great video. Especial...

:: Jane’s Addiction will be putting out a four-disc CD/DVD box set. That’s a whole lot of Perry Farrell. :: Post-rockers From Monument To Masses will be going coast-to-coast in April. :: March is Charity Month for the Seven Inch Project. Each artist the label has worked with picked a cha...

Here’s some news I’m kicking myself for missing: Dinosaur Jr. signed with Jagjaguwar last week. Luckily I didn’t miss the recent announcement of a tour. And the Dino boys will be stopping in Bloomington, Ind. — hometown of their new label. Which means I’ll finally get t...