Damon Albarn must not sleep. The Blur/Gorillaz frontman is always juggling a few dozen projects, and from the looks of things, we'll hear more from a couple of them soon. First up, there's the debut…   Read Story »

Just a few days ago, we mentioned the formation of a supergroup called Rocketjuice And The Moon, a group that features Damon Albarn, Flea and Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen. Over the weekend, while…   Read Story »

For a while now, the busy Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn has been talking about one of his latest projects, a new band that also features Red Hot Chili Peppers/Atoms For Peace bassist Flea and…   Read Story »

NAME: Red Hot Chili Peppers PROGRESS REPORT: Flea opens up about going back to school, the fine art of collaboration, and the Chili Peppers soon to be released new album Given all the talk about…   Read Story »

Atoms For Peace took the stage at Roseland moments after my iPad (j/k) lit up with a NYTimes alert about the Pentagon's new limits on when the U.S. can use nuclear weapons. "For the first time, the…   Read Story »

Turns out the Thom Yorke???? moniker was too self-aggrandizing even for Thom Yorke, bless him. Each of those question marks -- Mauro Refosco, Joey Waronker, Flea, and Nigel Godrich -- are now…   Read Story »

Well, this had to have been the the best thing to attend on so many levels. Background: Jennifer Bertrand, a friend of Frank Black's wife Violet Clark, has a son named Winston, a ten-month old born…   Read Story »

And now Los Angeles can go back to paying attention to the real life. The weekend that saw Thom Yorke bare-chested and well-lit wrapped up last night at the Orpheum. The setlist was the same as the…   Read Story »

Unlike Friday's show at the Echoplex, Thom Yorke and his new crew's Orpheum gig last night was not a "rehearsal." What that seems to mean, in practical terms, was one big tradeoff (less bare Yorke…   Read Story »

This was not the low-key warm-up gig ("total chaos ... kind of a rehearsal") Thom promised. Attendees of last night's pre-Orpheum preview got a full (and by most (Twitter) accounts "awesome")…   Read Story »