Happy Halloween, everybody!

Tis nearly All Hallows' Eve, when the whole world plays dress up and pretends to be something that they're not. From the above shot ...

Or best new music vs best music of all time . Though I've been hearing about San Francisco's Girls for a while now, until recently I...

Who knew that the power of music could transform a middle-aged desk jockey into an incredibly obnoxious-looking modern hipster? At least tha...

This is surely old news by now, but even upon initial announcement the impending reunion of Pavement didn't exactly make me convulse in ...

Eight months since the new administration took office, I guess we've given up on this "hope" jive. At least that's what on...

Happy Labor Day, everyone. I thought I would treat all you laborers to a special podcast of that most proletarian of art forms, punk rock. N...

For the past few days, I've been thumbing through one of my all-time favorite books, A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings of R...

Yes, I realize this is a bit late but if I wanted to meet deadlines, I would try try to get paid for this stuff instead of giving it away fo...

As much as I like to think of myself as the antithesis of the sort of blogger who has a "false sense of importance when they're oft...

(Please note the lack of a string section above) There's a hilarious bit from the comedy duo Scharpling and Wurster about the fictional ...

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...