It's Friday and our comment voting plug-in is still on the fritz. We should have a replacement up and running soon, though. For now we'll have to consider every comment made this week to be the best,…   Read Story »

This week you guys offered a lot of insightful discourse while knowing full well your fellow readers could not validate you with a THUMBS UP or DOWN. Yes, our comment rating tools are still missing…   Read Story »

If you visited here Wednesday afternoon you saw all the post copy on the site replaced with 0s. That was not intentional. It was a malware attack. We've since fixed it, but had to disable comment…   Read Story »

This week's Shut Up, Dude comes to you from SXSW, where bands and brands play nice (mostly) for a marathon of free music and open bar. Stereogum's annual Range Life event goes down in a few hours at…   Read Story »

It's been a great couple of days for ambitious music videos, with highly stylized clips from Phoenix, Beach House, and the Knife all arriving towards the end of the week. (Not to mention our most…   Read Story »

This week we announced the lineup to Range Life 2013, our annual event during SXSW. If you'll be at the fest, please join us for free Taco Bell. If you'll be stuck in a cubicle somewhere, Morrissey…   Read Story »

Bonnaroooo. I've already booked my plane tickets and am looking forward to seeing "Weird Al" for the first time. Maybe of some of you are too. The Tennessee fest's lineup reveal was our most popular…   Read Story »

We kicked off this week with a comment party for the Grammys, a pretty tame ceremony from which we managed to find 10 least boring moments. We heard new songs from Tyler, The Creator, the Postal…   Read Story »

Superblizzard Nemo is upon us, and hopefully you are reading this from someplace warm and dry, ears wrapped in My Bloody Valentine's tremendous return, m b v. That was our must-hear album for a busy…   Read Story »

This week we Deconstructed the festival industry and the postage hike's impact on indie. We talked with Robyn Hitchcock, Waxahatchee, Autre Ne Veut, and Brendan Benson. We listed the 10 weirdest…   Read Story »