The eco-friendly Green Man took over Brecon Beacons, Wales this past weekend with a heavy dose of Americana: from midwestern folkies (Bon Iver, Wilco, Andrew Bird) to wailing east coast…   Read Story »

Twitter users were outraged last week when the service shut down @CWalken, a popular but totally fake celebrity account. Indeed it's way too easy to be duped by fake profiles. (So easy!) Not that…   Read Story »

Everyone's buzzing about the Anne Hathaway-starring, Jonathan Demme-directed, Rachel Getting Married. It's better than the chihuahua movie even. On Friday, we listened to Tunde Adebimpe's Neil Young…   Read Story »

We tip our caps to Jools Holland regularly around here, for his musicianship whenever we blow the dust off our Squeeze records, but more frequently when he hosts musicians we love on that BBC show of…   Read Story »

Never a bad time to wade through psych-folk hero Robyn Hitchcock's back catalogue, but Yep Roc's making it so there's never been a better time, releasing a box set of three of Hitchcock's finest '80s…   Read Story »

Despite the excellent lineups all over town, our daylight hours on Friday had been spoken for well before we made the trek to SouthBy (and particularly after spending Thursday systematically missing…   Read Story »

Robyn Hitchcock brought some of the Venus family to a much-anticipated (by us) gig at yesterday's Yep Roc showcase at the Dirty Dog. We planted ourselves front and stage right to revel in Robyn's…   Read Story »

Reader Maya writes in from across the Atlantic:Ok so unsurprisingly none of the London music press covered The Decemberists performance at the Shepherds Bush Empire last night. I?m not sure if it…   Read Story »

Also coming from Yep Roc is psych-folk hero Robyn Hitchcock's Ole Tarantula (out 10/3). His backing band, The Venus 3, are Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Riefin of The Minus Five."We sound like…   Read Story »

Over at Grant-Lee Phillips' MySpace you can hear the singer/songwriter reimagine PFurs' "Love My Way" as a downtempo folk tune. It's from his new concept album -- the concept being covering Scott…   Read Story »