Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

There is a Runaways movie in the works, with Twilight actress Kristen Stewart set to play Joan Jett and former child android Dakota Fanning angling to play hard-partying lead singer Cherie Currie. Currie was 15 when she joined the all-female hard rock group (best known for "Cherry Bomb"), so that ma...

  Chi non avesse mai sentito parlare di Mick Ronson , poliedrico e virtuoso chitarrista, polistrumentista, produttore e arrangiatore protagonista del glam rock, può andarsi a riascoltare (o cercare nei meandri del web) qualche brano della straodinaria Ziggy Stardust's Spiders from Ma...

Bowie hearts Iggy. This we already know. David Bowie’s musical life was changed when he first heard the Stooges perform in the early ‘70s and entered into a long friendship with Mr. Osterberg, a/k/a Iggy Pop. A few years and failed albums later, Bowie tracked the struggling, newly sober Pop down...

This post is pretty much the direct result of spending an entire Sunday afternoon listening to music and clicking through Vice's "Do's and Don'ts" (Talk shit if you want, but it's an amusing way to burn 3 hours). Doubtless, everyone (EVERYONE) has heard this song, but I'm declaring this the definiti...

  Ellen Barkin may do an HBO series that will serve as her revenge plot against her asshole ex-husband. A boy opened a large birthday present and discovered his Dad, home from Iraq, inside. Morrissey, Amy Winehouse, My Bloody Valentine, Leonard Cohen, the Cure, and Paul McCartney are the headli...

Stephen Jones has used his 30 years' experience as one of fashion's premier milliners to put together an exhibition of headturning hats at the V?A....

Two battling LARPERS were caught on camera by Google Street View. I'm not kidding. Check it out here. After laughing for a good spell, I began to think about LARPing, and what it could mean to me: you know, the swords, the shields, the never-ending lore. So, I put a mix together of songs that I woul...

This month, on Musical Moments to Die For: secrets, influences, and secret influences, all book-ended by the two best bands to ever come from Athens, GA. We’ve also got the front-runners for greatest guitar and organ solos ever; Neil Young’s most despairing moment; and not one, not two, ...

On excellent advice "Never be a name-dropper. That's what Ricky Gervais told me over dinner at Jagger's house. Bowie thought it a bit out-of-order, too."...