We're getting pretty damn excited for SXSW. In nine days some of our favorite bands (Arms, Arizona, New Villager, Oh No! Oh My!, and seven others) will be joining us at Scholz Garten on Thursday for six hours of live music, beer drinking, dart throwing, and other IGIF + TSR related party shenanigans...

the light has hit the end of the michigan tunnel. march is here and we are all enjoying reasonable chilly instead of bone chilling cold-- rain and wind instead of snow and ice-- the hope that all germs will soon be banished by the warmth and outside days. yesterday, i let the kiddos play outside. co...

Love them or hate them, Pitchfork is without a doubt the musical bible for countless impressionable young music fans looking for every scrap of commodifiable independent music culture, be it pretentious album reviews, concert coverage, fanboyish news items and new MP3s and music videos (at least, th...

Peter writes in the comments about Blender. He and his mates did an independent study to learn Blender, an open source software platform for 3D design and animation. The results of their work is a clever short film titled The Night of the Living Dead Pixels. Their video animation was awarded best sh...

A few weeks ago, I checked out a Noise Night at Willoughby and Baltic. Scheduled for the second and fourth Thursday of the month, it's a really fun time. I read an article in MAKE, Volume 04 on circuit bending, but I'd never gotten around to trying it. Back in college, I took a few classes in electr...

[MP3] Winter Gloves - Let Me Drive If Winter Gloves music is any indication, we all could have seen a video like this on the horizon. In what I'm sure was a painstakingly long and tedious effort, director Benjamin Weinstein crafted what appears to be thousands of flip book pages to bring the band to...

This looks like it could be fun/dangerous. It might be fun to set them up in a big field and let the kids roll wild. Maybe get access to a dead mall and roll away. Kid hamster ball soccer anyone? Have you ever seen these things in the wild? Do you have pictures? What is the process for getting the k...

Back in February I highlighted my approval of Black Lips' fifth studio album 200 Million Thousand. Although the album didn't go forth kicking and screaming (as suggested by the Lips' previous LPs), the laidback flower-punk aesthetic and disillusioned psychedelia provided ripe fodder for the current ...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are on Jimmy Fallon tonight. About a month ago that sentence would have sounded incredibly vulgar and humiliating... wait actually it still does. Zing! They announced via their website last night that they would be playing a new song, "Statues," and subsequently making a dem...

It seems like only yesterday Kyle and Orhan were just your typical high schoolers from Florida with accounts at the Collected Animals forum. Now their experimental pop outfit Blind Man's Colour has a record deal which gives their gorgeously chaotic debut LP Season Dreaming a heart and a home (to be ...