Williamsburg is a Camel cigarette, the new Bedford Ave. Duane Reade has a wine bar inside of it, the yuppies are part of the firmament. Along with the latest wave of high-end gentrification in this…   Read Story »

Just when we were getting used to, uh, Travis Warren replacing Shannon Hoon on "No Rain," the upstart had problems with his vocal chords and depending on who you ask either (a) abandoned his fellow…   Read Story »

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. The late, lamented, Hoon-led…   Read Story »

Blind Melon are still back. As we mentioned when we went behind-the-scenes for the reunited band's "Sometimes" and through the slightly less immediate "Wishing Well." Again, new vocalist Travis…   Read Story »

While we were in NYC resting our legs for the upcoming Texan good times, thousands of music lovers went south for Langerado on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation. Looks like it was a hot, sweaty fun…   Read Story »

OK! For the children of the '90s, it's another listen of new Blind Melon! As you'll recall from our first listen and look behind-the-scenes of the reincarnated rock entity, the band is now fronted by…   Read Story »

We've sampled some of Cassettes Won't Listen (aka Jason Drake)'s remixing delicacies before with the nifty, shifty take on Asobi Seksu's Tokyo-tinged "Strawberries." But that was over a year ago, and…   Read Story »

For part of the population, Blind Melon remain the band with that bumblebee video (or members of Blender's 50 Worst Artists In Music History list), but we've never been shy about our blind Melon…   Read Story »