20 years!!! So many Matador memories. Going to CBGBs for the first time to see a Matador New Music Seminar showcase (and still having the Bu...

(Almost certainly not on Christopher Nolan's agenda for the Dark Knight sequel.) For the first time since April, I've completed two ...

So my home computer finally died a couple of weeks ago. As much as I'd like to blame this for my less than prolific posting of late, it...

"It was totally unfair that it didn't get Record of the Year and it can never happen again." -Michael Jackson, disappointed t...

Sky Saxon, leader of 60s "flower punks" the Seeds and author of one of my favorite songs of all time (see below), passed away this...

(Justin or Kelly?) We're just about 6 months away from the end of the 00s and we're hearing surprisingly little fanfare. Perhaps it...

Farewell, dear friend. It was probably my fault for leaving you on the back of my chair at the bar. I'm pretty sure the drunk old hippie...

...I'll skip the reward. I was just about ready to post the CD twofer of In The Same Room and 5 By Four from This Kind of Punishment a...

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...