Welcome to the Oh Sees, bitch. Oh Sees, the prolific California garage-rock institution led by John Dwyer, are following up last year's Smote Reverser with…
Portland rockers Summer Cannibals are returning this week with Can't Tell Me No, their fourth album and their first for Tiny Engines. The band recorded…
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills guested on an episode of R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?, comedians Scott Aukerman and Adam Scott's R.E.M.-centric podcast, a couple…
A jazz journalist has discovered old film footage that he believes features a teenaged, pre-fame Louis Armstrong. James Karst tells NPR that he stumbled into…
Lana Del Rey turned 34 on Friday. Happy birthday, Lana! Yesterday, she celebrated with a show at Malahide Castle near Dublin, Ireland. And midway through…
If you've ever played The Sims, you'll recognize the comfortingly meaningless tones of Simlish, the nonsense language that all the characters in the games speak.
Comedian Tim Heidecker has a side gig as a satirical 1970s-style singer-songwriter, and he recently released an entire fake breakup album called What The Brokenhearted…
Metallica have a tradition. At pretty much every one of their gigs in recent years, bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett take the spotlight…
Paris' biological father was Dr Arnold Klein, celebrity dermatologist. Prince & Paris carry the DNA of Debbie Rowe, & her long time boss & lover, who was Dr Klein. Prince & Paris thankfully carry no DNA by MJ.
So many good ones! Dirty Projectors and David Byrne's "Knotty Pine," the National's "So Far Around The Bend," Dave Sitek's Troggs cover...and I've always loved Sufjan's gonzo 10-minute electro-classical version of "You Are The Blood."
