Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Scratch another one on the checklist for Humanity's ultimate self-destruction. A Warrior-Alpha drone from the US Army's Odin Task Force fired against enemy forces with no pilot. The Predator variant......

The Pentagon has already built remote-controlled surgeons. It's working to develop medical evacuation robots and unmanned ambulances. So it's only logical that the next step for military researchers is to develop a 'bot that'll help a patient, once he's been treated by the other medical machines. Th...

I am one of very few that thinks U2 really isn’t that great, other than The Joshua Tree and a few other random songs. The fact that Rolling Stone gave the new release five stars pretty much guarantees I won’t like it. But Neko Case… ohhh Neko Case. If only you were ten years younge...

According to the Southern Lord blog, we can expect another Sunn o))) album to show just rub in just how shitty your speakers/headphones are in late May (Summer jams!!). Sunn o))) is one of those bands that I gush about how rad they are, but don't find myself listening to their albums all that often....

Since the Kunaki store generally sucks, I’m putting my stuff on CD Baby. Absent, Mute, and Stochastic Resonance are for sale for $10.00 each, or $5.00 each if you buy all three. If there’s a good reaction, I’ll see about making the rest of the catalog available. By all means, feel ...

Damn these Klieg-Light attracted politicians who run their damn mouths. A democrat Senator has just exposed some of our forces to direct attack by indicating - IN PUBLIC - where they are launching the fight against al Qaeda: A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIAPredator aircraft op...

JERUSALEM -- The man was a few seconds from an all-but-certain death, when Gil told everyone to call off the airstrike. This was Sunday. Gil, a captain in the Israeli Air Force, was sitting in a green-painted metal box on the Palmahim Air Base, south of Tel Aviv. In front of him was a joystick and a...

Wednesday Evening News Roundup Note to MSNBC: upgrade your servers!!!  From 7 p.m. to midnight Eastern Standard Time, it is nearly impossible to watch any of the videos (Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Rachel Maddow Show). You need more bandwidth! Peter Bergen, counterterrorism expert, has a f...

California Drones Mystery Solved By Sarah Connor Chronicles? The mid season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TSCC) threw me something to chew on Monday night that I was surprised to see. Was TSCC yet one more project that was bitten by the writers strike? When the heck are we gonna...