You know that feeling when every ounce of faith that you’ve had over the years in something or someone comes to full bloom right before your eyes? Yeah, that’s what happened last night at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood when Dead Sara made their national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live. When their manager asked if I was coming to the show, […]

Once again that bitch called cancer has sucked the life out of one of music’s shiny diamonds. Adam Yauch (stage persona MCA), co-founder and one of the mighty three Beastie Boys has died. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, class of 2012 (one of only three rap groups to receive that honor), Adam was unable to attend […]

If my goal was to pick a video to spark off your weekend and dose you with a sense of psychedelic possibilities, methinks I’ve succeeded with this little band from the UK: Oxford’s Fixers and their video “Crystals”. Are you ready? This five man outfit have just released their first U.S. EP, the five-track Pop Meat/Your Corruptor (yeah unless they’re vegetarians, I have […]

Whether or not they’re named after a mighty mountain that insane people repeatedly attempt to climb, don’t have a clue and maybe I’ll ask them the next time that I see them, but Los Angeles rockers, Everest, do have the ability to craft some towering sounds that edge folk and alternative, country and rock, yet always just kind of bloom into […]

The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Yes, that’s the title of Fiona Apple‘s long awaited (7 years, folks) follow-up to the deliciously extraordinary Extraordinary Machine. Look for it on June 19th. Yes, that preciously WTF? title is the essence of her quirk, but […]

A Place To Bury Strangers There’s something to be said for being consistant and even more to be said for being consistently good. In case you missed it, back in February A Place To Bury Strangers  released this little EP diamond Onwards To The Wall. If you’re a fan of the Brooklyn NY trio (actually I think they’re technically a foursome now due […]

Scene of the Crime: the Satellite, January 23, 2012 There’s something to be said for earnest ambition when it comes to creating dramatic rhythm and beauty  in song. It’s the stuff of epic love songs and moments of exaltation that tend to lift the heart and hands Heavenward at stadiums. Enter the youth and talent of four UK gentlemen from […]