Early Saturday evening, on an empty stomach, we watched our favorite glammy Norwegian neo-wave quartet New Violators play a streamlined set of their excellent Echo & the Stardust anthems. Streamlined…   Read Story »

Band To Watch New Violators, our favorite new wave-y Norwegians, have posted a new track over at their MySpace. Yup, that's a lot of "new"'s in one sentence -- guess we're hoping they'll actually…   Read Story »

Band to watch and Puppet Show alum New Violators are back in Trondheim, Norway after their wave of NYC and Austin shows in March, adding to the queue of unreleased gems by writing and recording even…   Read Story »

Not sure what the contributing factors were, but it seemed like everybody was a little frustrated yesterday down at SouthBy; people showing up to the right day party at the wrong time, jumbling their…   Read Story »

With more than 3,024 bands yet to see, Meat Puppets' set at last night's Puppet Show is bound to be one of, maybe the, highlight of the week. "This is our first gig together in 11 years," the…   Read Story »

Here's a clip from a cool project from The Blow beatsmith and Stereogum Puppet Show DJ, YACHT. This track comprises samples Nirvana and ONLY Nirvana, right down to the fractured shards of drum. The…   Read Story »

Those of you making your way down to SXSW this year probably already have fairly full day and night dance cards, but consider this your formal invite to join us as we welcome back the Meat Puppets!…   Read Story »

New Violators don't have an album out just yet, but the Norwegian quintet -- sextet, if you count the phenomenal female back-up singer accompanying them last time out -- should be a hit when they set…   Read Story »