Before Sam Raimi became famous as the hotshot director behind the Spider-Man franchise, he and his childhood friend Bruce Campbell produced a series of low-budget schlock/camp horror films -- the more serious Evil Dead and the absolutely farcical Evil Dead II and Evil Dead III; Army of Darkness. He ...

Is integrating an Xbox 360 into an existing computer monitor/speakers setup worth it? Or should I simply get a TV? I want to get an Xbox 360. The easiest thing to do would be to get an LCD TV, because it'll have all the connections I need. But it'd cost extra and take up space in my very small apart...

The top rollers over at the Curb Crawlers blog just posted this mix from unruly London duo Zombie Disco Squad, who are already miles ahead of the competion with a slew of fine releases dropping this year on Sound Pellegrino, Made To Play, Dirtybird Records etc. + a residency at Panorama Bar in Berli...

Hugh Pickens writes "Jonathan Berger, a tutor if (lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.content.length) { document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.contenttop); document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.sponsoredlinks); document.write(lexico_globals.googleafc.ads.content[2]); document.write(""); of music...

Nixon's Master Blaster Headphones are their top-of-the-line, studio quality headphones. In addition to beautiful, lightweight design, these leather-wrapped cans have 50mm dynamic drivers and an analog volume dial built around the speaker cabinet. Price: $200 The Verdict: There's a lot to love about ...

The actual central Democratic party apparatus introduced a wacky prank last week to stick it to farty ol’ Rush Limbaugh: they’d come up with a funny slogan about Rush being weird and place it on a billboard in Rush’s hometown. Then Rush would see it all the time and feel embarrasse...

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...

Christopher over at Music for Media has a wonderful post that gives instructions for how to record the best darn voiceover you can record. I have critiqued tons of videos that had terrible-sounding voiceovers: Believe me folks, this is important. You must hop over to see his advice, but here’s...

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...

Man, I love guitars. Especially nice guitars! You know the kind I'm talking about - the sweet and amazingly light acoustic, hand crafted detail, perfect sound, the kind you're almost afraid to even pick up and strum lest you might drop it and then hell - there goes a mortgage payment! Although the s...