Like most people around my age, Sonic Youth played an huge role in the development of my nascent musical taste. I probably first became awar...

(Above: three people worse than Hitler) Opinions, man. A couple of months ago, I wrote about the inevitable backlash to the rise in popular...

(No one made me a cake) It's been just over a year since I posted my first podcast. (It only feels like five.) During that time I've...

...and all I got was the flimsiest pretense to post a YouTube clip. No, not that one . This one: In all seriousness, J.J. Abrams' Star T...

"This Moment in Slack History" collects songs from 90s indie 7 inches. For further explanation, please see my original post here ....

I caught the long gestating Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret on cable last night. By most accounts Darby Crash was a fascinating guy, as m...

(Above: a titan of industry) A few weeks back I wrote about the imminent backlash for the lo-fi revival movement. I opined that some of the...

A few months back I wrote a post deriding the awful, awful names of a bunch of blog buzz bands . (Alliteration!) I recently had a inclinatio...

A few weeks ago, I caught Julien Temple's posthumous Joe Strummer documentary, The Future Is Unwritten . While it did little to discoura...

In recognition of 4/20, I thought I'd present you the reason why marijuana will never be legalized: highDEAS.com I'm not really a fa...

(Photo courtesy of What a Way to Die ) In the post-Strokes signing frenzy of the early aughts, it seemed like there were thousands of bands ...

(I couldn't get a good shot of the Flipper t shirt) Let me tell you kids about the 90s. There was this band from Seattle that changed ev...