Lookout! Records, the storied Bay Area punk label, has barely existed in the past six years; the label stopped releasing new music in 2006, only staying around to keep its old material in print. But…   Read Story »

New York just became the 6th largest state to approve same-sex marriage. Yes! The Senate bill passed 33-to-29, Governor Cuomo signed the measure shortly after, and the law goes into effect in 30…   Read Story »

Mac case company Incase sponsors this series of acoustic performances, which includes sessions from High Places, Puro Instinct, and Abe Vigoda. This new one from Ted Leo includes a song that,…   Read Story »

It's ten years since Michael Azerrad first published his defining DIY '80s scene portrait Our Band Could Be Your Life, which covered an independent music culture that changed irrevocably a decade…   Read Story »

SXSW 2011 came and went -- we have the portraits to prove it -- but it doesn't mean those days in Austin aren't still spitting out worthwhile mementos... Like Fred Armisen before him, Ted Leo…   Read Story »

Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991 is a great book, an essential read for folks who were there from the beginning, came in a little…   Read Story »

The Best Show on WFMU's Tom Scharpling got the nod to direct the New Pornographers' video for "Moves," which consequently features some of the more notable Friends Of Tom in the Coming Attraction for…   Read Story »

Last week Danzig surfaced to discuss those kitty litter photos and, more fittingly, via a cover of "Bullet" by Black Flag-nodding Louisville punk trio Coliseum. Halloween ought to last forever, so…   Read Story »

Austin City Limits hosted some of the nicest weather in years alongside an impressive line up with main headliners The Strokes, Muse and the Eagles. Some tough scheduling choices though needed to be…   Read Story »

So that happened. It'll take a few days of drying out and shutting eyes to come to terms with all that transpired in Las Vegas this weekend, though in the spirit of Matador's three-day, boozy, purely…   Read Story »