The new, sixth studio record forthcoming from Cursive finally has details!  Hooray for all mankind.  Mama, I'm Swollen, just five weeks away from its release on March 10, is it.  You can pre-order the record from Saddle Creek right now, as we're typing this.  We seriously love that a band like T...

Filed under: Rhythm, Business The NPD Group has tallied up all of the SKUs for Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour -- both multi-instrument packs and separate games -- and found that Activision / Neversoft's rocker came out on top with 3.4 million units sold last year, twice the number achieved b...

Arik Einstein turned 70 this week. Were it not for the war, this would have been front page news. Not only because it is an occasion for celebration but because in this land of the perpetual diminutive, where everyone goes by their childhood nickname, people find it hard to believe that Arik - singe...

Some weeks back, a rash of odd pointy objects appeared on the right side of my snout. Initially, I feared the worst: nose cancer, or some previously undiscovered disease which will make dermatology experts awash in excitement to be on the forefront of a new biological frontier. Eventually, after app...

Martin Luther - Rebel Soul Music [2004] Who is THIS Martin Luther? Every so often, in the midst of countless records that basically sound the same, a breath of fresh air rolls around. A glimmering light sometimes explodes through the dark seas of redundant and over-recycled music. And sometimes, whe...

Arts & entertainment: The church and indie rock fought for Reggie Youngblood's soul. He tells Dorian Lynskey how his band, Black Kids, finally won the battle...

The one upside to the Patriot Act is the little-known provision allowing Federal authorities to forcibly remove musical instruments from any past-it performer reaching the age of 70: happy birthday and say goodbye to your artfully detuned gee-tar, Thurston Moore.  It's time for the broken-hip hipst...

Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Video, Rhythm Okay, so the point of the Funny Or Die-hosted video "Backlash" isn't gaming-centric, per se, but it does center around various Judd Apatow alum and cast members of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story playing the PlayStation 3 ver...

You probably haven't heard of French art/punk pioneer Thierry Muller and it is for this reason I spit on your grave. Steal yourself a credit card and order Rare & Unreleased 1974-1984 , a new comp which showcases the many charms of Muller (all of them dangerous). What other recent CD release will gi...