ARCTIC MONKEYS: The other night, my Dad asked what the big deal was with this band. Well, the quartet's Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is now the fastest…
Read MoreFor those of you who didn't read along with Amber Taylor's Blog Book Club this month, Blindness is a Nobel Prize-winning novel by Jose Saramago. It chronicles what happens when an epidemic of “white…
Read MoreROBERT POLLARD talks about his solo career, side projects (including one with touring guitarist Tommy Keene), and supporting himself on eBay. As for the touring band, Pollard tells Flagpole that it's “out…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:What's that I'm listening to? It's the new Belle & Sebastian — The Life Pursuit is streaming broadband at SceneStars. It’s a little more groovy than usual.FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: Duck…
Read MoreART BRUT is kicking off their first US tour at SXSW. You can — and should — stream two of the band's best at MySpace. Now. Use the standalone player if you…
Read MoreBROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: Kevin Drew is inteviewed in his bathtub about the pros and cons of the digitial age, sometime-bandmate Leslie Feist (“the hardest working person in show business”), America and the…
Read MoreSCOTT McCAUGHEY: His current supergroup, The Minus 5, has a new album coming on February 7th… and a tour. (After Scott finishes playing a UK tour with with Robyn Hitchcock — and…
Read MoreGARY “ELVIS” SCHEPERS UPDATE: Pate frontman Jon Pratt and wife Naomi drove 14 hours and endured a Chicago snowstorm to attend one of the week-long series of benefit concerts featuring a veritable…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:WILSON PICKETT — that wicked, wicked Pickett — died of a heart attack at 64. As a teenager, Pickett formed a gospel music group called the Violinaires which toured…
Read MoreBLAKE SENNETT talks about recording his side project The Elected, which is dropping the same day as the solo album from his Rilo Kiley partner, Jenny Lewis: “I guess Jenny's Gene Simmons.…
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