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The Jazz Butcher: “Zombie Love” My neighbors say that I’m strange My neighbors...

Oct 31st

From scratch, bitches.

Oct 31st

—via tylercoates

Oct 30th

According to J.Crew, this look is totally in right now. I...

Oct 29th

9 Dragons, 900 Unrelated Thoughts

So I’m trying to wade through 9 Dragons—the latest Michael Connelly1 novel—which...

Oct 29th

HOLY SHIT, I JUST REALIZED: MICHAEL...

kellydeal: I’m just saying, with Moz in the hospital, we may need to start some sort of...

Oct 29th

GPOYW: “It’s A Sox Shirt But It’s Still...

Oct 28th

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baileygenine: Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken In response to Lloyd Cole’s Are...

Oct 27th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25)

Oct 26th

Charles Bukowski, 1987.

Oct 26th

Nick Lowe On Tour: Acoustic Fantastic

Oct 26th

Oct 26th

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Elvis Costello: “Welcome to the Working Week” Welcome to the working week Oh I know...

Oct 26th

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No Direction, Period: Bob Dylan actually wrote every popular song in the past thirty-five years. ...

Oct 26th

“No, you are not going to give him mouth to mouth.”
— My mother, texting me about...

Oct 25th

Morrissey Remains in Hospital After...

Oct 25th

Rolling Stone: How has the internet changed music fandom? Nick Hornby: In the book [Juliet, Naked],...

Oct 25th

“Once in awhile you may feel you are on shaky ground, that...”
— From “So You Want to Be...

Oct 25th

“So we touched on what’s uncool. But what about the...”
— Minneapolis writer Paul Allen,...

Oct 25th

I Have Sixty-One R.E.M. Concerts On This...

I just thought I should tell someone before I’m crushed beneath the weight of my own...

Oct 24th

“This is why the internet sucks. Number one, they never get...”
— Michael Stipe, introducing...

Oct 23rd

Pylon’s Chomp: Greatest Album Cover Ever or Greatest...

Oct 23rd

NPR: Stream Live At The Olympia

Oct 23rd

What’s For Dinner Darling? —via

Oct 23rd

Joshua Hoffine: Master of Horror Photography While this...

Oct 22nd

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The Damned: “Neat Neat Neat” And here’s that very song.  Because I can stick to...

Oct 22nd

The Damned: “Neat Neat Neat” Stiff Records BUY...

Oct 22nd

“Besides several solid Accelerate outtakes, the selling point...”
— Will Hermes, reviewing...

Oct 22nd

“You’ve got to be bloody-minded and stay bloody-minded....”
— Robyn Hitchcock

Oct 22nd

Hey, Guy Behind Me in the Coffee Shop...

If you don’t know exactly when to clap during “Space Oddity”, don’t.

Oct 21st

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Viva! Seattle Tacoma, viva viva Sea-Tac Viva viva viva viva viva Sea-Tac They’ve got the...

Oct 21st

GPOYW: SO INSANELY EXCITED To Be Touching Peter Buck...

Oct 21st

Tom Waits interviews Tom Waits

Q: What’s wrong with the world? A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being...

Oct 20th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18)

Oct 19th

Aaaaaand then this happened. What a show. What. A....

Oct 19th

Less than two hours… Saying I’m excited is a...

Oct 18th

Show me on the doll where the Italian touched you.

Oct 18th

And an ass-frostingly good morning to you too, West...

Oct 18th

I’m riding in the backseat of my parents’ car...

Oct 17th

Two days, twenty-three hours and thirty six minutes until...

Oct 15th

From MTV’s Live & Loud 13 December 1993 Seattle,...

Oct 15th

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DJ Steve Porter: “Press Hop” This has been on YewToob since June which makes it, like,...

Oct 14th

“I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I...”
— Where The Wild Things Are...

Oct 14th

“I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I just want some mini-KitKats and...

Oct 14th

waxandmilk: Billy Bragg’s first punk band, Riff-Raff Photo...

Oct 13th

Sigh.

So I’m listening to KEXP [Seattle] which is one of my all-time favorite stations and one I...

Oct 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-11)

Oct 12th

Live Stiffs 1978 Finding this on vinyl has done more...

Oct 12th

Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith If anyone...

Oct 12th

Yes, I saw three movies yesterday. Yes, I consumed my...

Oct 11th

“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question...”
— Hunter S. Thompson

Oct 11th

Oct 9th

He should’ve turned 69 today. 9 October 1940 - 8...

Oct 9th

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The Dead Weather: “I Cut Like A Buffalo” Directed by Jack White —via

Oct 8th

The front cover of The Angry Young Them, notable because it...

Oct 8th

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Them: “You Just Can’t Win” On Sunday, I heard Jack White sing this Van...

Oct 8th

I JUST Learned That The Lyrics to Phil...

Apparently he actually says “And don’t try to change her/Just leave it, leave...

Oct 8th

That’s how ESPN.com reported it too.

Oct 7th

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R.E.M.: “Tom’s Diner” March 15, 1991  The Borderline, London “On...

Oct 7th

And with this tweet from @samantharonson, I immediately died...

Oct 7th

“Himself” by Jerry Schatzberg [1967] This shot of...

Oct 7th

Eddie Vedder, representing Boy Scout Troop #365.

Oct 6th

Here’s Nick O’Malley (on bass) and lead singer...

Oct 6th

I’m back home and it’s time for Crappy ACL...

Oct 6th

Delayed Indefinitely

I’m waiting until who-knows-when at the Atlanta airport, currently trying to find a Delta...

Oct 5th

ACL Festival: Day Two

Oct 5th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4)

Oct 5th

Ten minutes until White Lies… and another fifteen...

Oct 4th

It’s not a matter of if I’ll faceplant into the...

Oct 4th

ACL Festival: Day One

Oct 4th

Nice vest, Aladdin. —In front of the Dell Stage,...

Oct 3rd

Only at a music festival is it appropriate for me to dress...

Oct 3rd

Them Crooked Vultures, featuring John Paul Jones, Josh Homme...

Oct 3rd

Phoenix, an hour before their afternoon show.

Oct 2nd

No one will be surprised to learn that I own everything in...

Oct 2nd

Ew.

That’s what the back of my hand looks like? Gross. It’s like an aerial view of rural New...

Oct 2nd

Aaaand I’m officially Official…

Oct 2nd

Mantle This! Mantle That! It Makes Me Sick!

Oct 1st

Gate B33

My flight to Texas is boarding and I’m assuming that anyone wearing Wayfarers indoors, an...

Oct 1st

It’s 4:01 a.m. and I’m already at the airport....

Oct 1st