Maybe you're frustrated about a crumbling (or crumbled) relationship. Maybe you're tired of being broke and/or unemployed. After all, who isn't these days? Or perhaps you're pissed at stupid scientists who invent shit like the atomic bomb and only afterwards do they realize the magnitude of what the...

Last night the wind knocked out my internet access for a good couple of hours. I used my time away from the web to take a complete and uninterrupted listen to Buddy & Julie Miller’s Written In Chalk , released last week on New West Records. Recorded in Nashville, TN and including guest ap...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

Listening to All I Ever Wanted I feel I may have been a little to harsh when reviewing Kelly Clarkson’s last disk My December (see: You're Going Crazy, Running on Empty). My big complaint was that she tried to do too much herself, even if she had no ability to create a memorable melody, almost def...

Huh, despite the reunion touring and the upcoming SXSW appearance, I did not see this one coming: The fall of 2009 will bring a new DEVO studio album, their first one since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps . It’ll mark their first new music since the strong fan reaction that greeted the 2007 si...

Editor's Note: This blog was contributed by Shaun Rogan. Be sure to read his previous blogs for Zoom In Online: A Trip Thru Hell with the C.A. Quintet and Lux Interior (1946-2009): A True Legend of Rock N Roll. read more...

Pink reader Ian gives me the head’s up that the album cover artwork for Tori Amos’s new disc Abnormally Attracted to Sin has been released along with a new interview and full album tracklisting, courtesy of Spinner.com. Holy shizz, y’all … I’m so excited I can barely ty...

Have you heard Taylor Hicks’ new album The Distance yet?  This is the type of album that I think Taylor should have made a long time ago and I was really happy with it.  Unlike a lot of other albums today, this doesn’t try to use gimmicks to be appealing.  Taylor’s vocals are th...

Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series 4 - Live 1966 ‘Like Dylan In The Movies’ indeed. I wondered what I should write about this record.  I realised I had already written it eight years ago. Here’s some edited highlights. It’s probably all you need. The triumvirate of Bringing It All Back H...

King Tutt - The Evolution EP (Unruly Records) When I picked King Tutt as the best club music producer in the City Paper's 2007 Best Of Baltimore issue, I was really trying to look ahead, and find someone less known that was showing a lot of potential, instead of just giving the award to someone more...