Michael Stipe

Overheard at SxSW

Southbyscurvy: The Best of SxSW

GET DRUNK

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

ALL THE WAY LIVE

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

RECORDINGS

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

UNLISTED NUMBERSA DIRECTORY OF HIDDEN TRACKS FROM LP TO CD

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

Pic Hits for the week

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

Weather Report

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

The Big Sleep

VIC CHESNUTT COMES TO SERVE UP HIS LATEST ALBUM

Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow

One man's Poison is another band's comeback

Recordings

One man's Poison is another band's comeback

Dr. Cynic's Revenge

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Flashes

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Calendar for the week

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Letters

Beat Angel Brian Smith's 10 Greatest Atrocities in '96

Critical Fatwa

Stipe the madness

Hello, Cleveland!

A pseudo-Michael Stipe shares what's on his MP3 player

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Hooray for Bollywood

Is “The Enchantress” bigger than The Beatles?

Celebrity Playlist

Looking at the music of 2007 from a different direction

Dispassion Flower

Former Lunachick's 'tude could wilt stone roses

R.E.M.

And I Feel Fine . . . The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
(Capitol/I.R.S.)

The Kid's All Right

Piano woman

Jucifer

The devil you don't know

Conor's Cult

Rising star stays true blue

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Electric Avenue

MySpace Music is virtual community of artists, fans

Liberty for None

Mandy Moore's likable enough; wish we could say the same about her movie

Southern Comfort

With Creatures, Athens' Elf Power releases another darkly poppish masterstroke

Working Drone

Jay Farrar secures his place as an alt-country icon and returns to form with a new solo album

Blonde Faith

More than a decade after its lone pop hit, a reunited Concrete Blonde engages in another round of Group Therapy

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

R.E.M.

Reveal (Warner Bros.)

Winter Hawks

Athens, Georgia's Elf Power takes a slightly dark turn with its latest

On the Dark Side

Indie rockers Death Takes a Holiday make meaningful music out of Satan, despair and their own righteous anger

Cox Suckers

Shedding tiers over IFC

Cracked Actor

With new album, Vic Chesnutt moves from lonely troubadour to pop-art master

Recordings

With new album, Vic Chesnutt moves from lonely troubadour to pop-art master

WHITE THE POWER PUBLIC ENEMY'S COLORBLIND WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING MONEY

With new album, Vic Chesnutt moves from lonely troubadour to pop-art master

BUSTIN' OUT OF BLACKFACE

WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

LOOK WHAT'S POPPED UP THE WONDER STUFF MINES AN OLD VEIN FOR NEW SOUND

WHITE MEN CAN'T RAP. OR CAN THEY?

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Free Freakfests, Steamcroween, and REM

Ryan JosephBurlesque singer Melody Sweets will perform at the Venue of Scottsdale tonight as a part of Most Interesting Show in the World.​While next week gonna be packed wall-to-wall with Halloween events aplenty -- from vampire parties to dire deathraces -- this weekend ain't too shabby when it ... More >>

Concert Review: The Shaky Hands and the Rural Alberta Advantage

​It was a blistering cold winter night in Phoenix and it seemed like a bunch of folks opted to stay home instead of catch locals Yellow Minute support touring acts the Shaky Hands and the Rural Alberta Advantage at the Rhythm Room last night. I had bundled up and gotten to the venue (after a pit-s ... More >>

The Flip Side

Hoodlums’ art show is the real bedazzled

10 Things Under $10 Christmas Weekend: Bettie Blood Burlesque, Coats & Villa, Groove Candy, and More

The Bettie Blood Burlesque Troupe is scheduled to perform at Rogue Bar in Scottsdale tonight.A​fter six endless weeks of endless hype, treacly commercials, and non-stop carols, we're only 48 hours or so from the arrival of Christmas morning. But you don't have to wait until then to get your presen ... More >>

Vic Chesnutt Tributes Pour in from Musicians, Journalists, Fans

​It's been a slooow news week around the music-oriented blogosphere. In fact, several blogs, like our friends at Electric Mustache, have just taken the rest of the year off. We're soldiering on and reading over some of the many funny and fascinating pieces on wheel chair-bound indie-folk scion Vic ... More >>

MGMT, Vivian Girls, et al. to Cover David Bowie

​Let's face it. Cover albums are usually a bad idea. While it's wonderful to see one artist admire another so much that (s)he wishes to have a recording permanently linking the two together, most of the time the art of the craft is lost. David Bowie's Pin Ups is an exception, widely considered ... More >>

Matt & Kim's Place Among Other Too-Happy Rockers

​Let's face it. Cover albums are usually a bad idea. While it's wonderful to see one artist admire another so much that (s)he wishes to have a recording permanently linking the two together, most of the time the art of the craft is lost. David Bowie's Pin Ups is an exception, widely considered ... More >>

Michael Stipe Tried to Record With Kurt Cobain and Save His Life

​Michael Stipe of REM said he tried to reach out to Kurt Cobain as an attempt to help save Cobain's life, according to NME.Stipe recently told Interview Magazine that he devised a plan to try to save Cobain from the awful state of mind he was in before he killed himself. He wanted to do a recordin ... More >>

Top 40 Songs with Arizona in the Lyrics: Songs 40 through 21

Wikimedia CommonsArizona: Land of sun and song.​There have been more than 140 songs with lyrics about Arizona in them. Seriously. Some of them have been big hits by huge acts, too ("Get Back" by The Beatles, "Take It Easy" by The Eagles). The lyrics to these songs capture various snapshots of the ... More >>