The White Stripes

Who Decides What Rock is "Classic Rock?"

Not everyone has the luxury of having an auxiliary jack in their car stereo. With the amount of leaks, holes, and weird noises coming from my engine, I'm lucky my beat up truck still runs period. I can't be asking for a decent stereo. So my commuting music consists entirely of FM radio, which is sti ... More >>

Top 5 Contemporary Blues Rock Bands That Don't Totally Suck

Our sister blog, West Coast Sound, has caught a lot of shit lately for their disdain for neo-blues rockers The Black Keys. Just remember we're only critics, and opinions are just opinions. Nicholas Pell even offered up some alternative blues bands for you to dig. The problem is, as commenter AlexNic ... More >>

Boom Chick, Rogue Bar, 7/26/12

Boom Chick The Rogue Bar Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Q&A: Frank Hoier And Moselle Spiller Of Boom Chick On Touring, Honoring The Blues, And Nirvana About a week and a half ago, my dad opened a show at the Rogue Bar. When he, my mother, and I arrived at the venue he said, "It's pretty bad wh ... More >>

Throwback Thursday: Garbage Still Rules

Alternative/industrial rock darlings Garbage released its fifth album, Not Your Kind of People last month, and the record shows no signs of wear or dust after a seven year break. The band steps slightly away from the alterna-pop that earned them radio domination in the '90s, with synths and slower s ... More >>

Music Maker Workshops Battle of the Bands at Club Red, 5/6/12

Music Maker Workshops Battle of the Bands Club Red Sunday, May 6, 2012 Pint-sized rockers of Ahwatukee's Music Maker Workshops dueled it out at the school's first battle of the bands of the year last night at Club Red in Tempe. The school takes kids between the ages of 8 and 17, and gives them the ... More >>

The Pretty Reckless: Taylor Momsen Says Hit Me Like a Man at Martini Ranch This Weekend

​Gossip Girl fans looking to see Little J in action when Taylor Momsen and her band The Pretty Reckless come through town may not recognize the 18-year-old when she takes the stage at Martini Ranch this Saturday, March 10. The vibe will be more Courtney Love than CW fare, as Mo ... More >>

Beau MacMillan, What Are You Listening To?

​Beau MacMillanFood Network star MacMillan is the executive chef of elements at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort and Spa.  When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? ESPN Sports Radio.What's the first album you bought? Led Zeppelin, ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

Darren King of MuteMath on Music Videos, Japan, and Being "Chrish"

Claire Vogel​We're legit bummed that X103.9's Bush and MuteMath show was cancelled, but since it would have been tonight, we decided that our interview with MuteMath is definitely still worth a read. Mutemath drummer Darren King had a lot to say about stop motion photography, comparisons to the Bl ... More >>

Happy Birthday, MTV: 30 Videos to Celebrate 30 Years

I want my MTV back​Music Television turns 30 today, but the network doesn't look a day over 16 and Pregnant. Well before MTV started exploiting the incredibly difficult lives of irresponsible teens expecting a first child and balancing high school algebra, the Viacom-network played music vid ... More >>

Carla Logan's Olive Tapanade

Kholood Eid​In the kitchen with: Carla Logan, aka Carly Making: olive tapenade It's a sweltering July afternoon, but inside Carly's Bistro it's dim and cool, with blinds drawn to filter out the light. And although we came during the lull between lunch and dinner, the owner's life is plenty ... More >>

The Black Keys Done With New Album

​Considering The Black Keys got booked for seemingly every major music festival in the last year or two, it's a mystery how they could have accomplished finishing another album. But somehow they actually did it, according to Consequence of Sound.Dan Auerbach says the next album "doesn't sound like ... More >>

The Raconteurs Are Back!

Now that he's got all that hilarious and awesome palling around with Stephen Colbert, out of his system, Jack White is getting back to business. The Raconteurs, arguably the dude's main gig now that The White Stripes have called it quits, are back, according to Consequence of Sound.The Raconteurs ha ... More >>

Predicting the Top Ten Lines From Forthcoming Reviews of The Strokes' Angles

The Strokes - Angles​Angles, the fourth album from New York indie rock gods The Strokes, will be released two weeks from tomorrow. We've already heard both lead single "Under the Cover of Darkness" as well as another track from the album "You're So Right." Our own Lenni Rosenbaum offered up t ... More >>

Jack White Angry With eBay Auction Participants

​Jack White is pissed off at his own fans, according to Antiquiet. Jack's own Third Man Records' recent eBay auctions for one of five copies of the White Stripes' rare first album reissue didn't quite go as planned. He's angry at flippers, the fans that buy these albums for cheap prices and resell ... More >>

Glastonbury Going Green... But Who's Playing?

​Worthy Farm, home to the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK, now boasts what festival organizer Michael Eavis calls "the best solar power system in the country," according to NME.The cluster of 1,116 solar panels that is fixed on top of the cowshed at Worthy Farm is pr ... More >>

OK Go FTW With Toasty New Viral Video

​OK Go is back with a brand new soon-to-be-viral video, according to SPIN.The video for the new song, entitled "Last Leaf," shows that the band has gone in a new direction with their visuals. Rather than another video that showcases the Rube Goldberg Machine (which was shot 89 times), a treadmill ... More >>

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

Autolux @ The Clubhouse

Autolux

Jack White and Conan O'Brien Have Surprise Date Tomorrow

If there are two people in the entertainment world who know how to get folks talking, it's Jack White and Conan O'Brien. Both are kings of the lost art of the whisper campaign, getting word of mouth buzzing both in real life and virtually whenever they make even the slightest move. While the pair a ... More >>

Pearl Jam Pay $210,000 to Offset Their Carbon Footprints

Could you be looking at the new Washington State Pearl Jam Forest?​According to NME, Pearl Jam will be planting $210,000 worth of trees in Washington state. Why, you may ask? Well, in order to make up for all of the environmental damage they did during last year's U.S. tour. The band believe ... More >>

Losers' Ball at Sail Inn

Dex and Sara Romweber rockin' it.​It was ironically named The Losers' Ball, but if you know anything about how people market stuff nowadays, you'd correctly guess that Sail Inn's show had incredibly cool musicians playing for a bunch of incredibly cool people. That started right at the top of the ... More >>

Bob Dylan Opens White House Concert Series

​Last night began the "In Performance at the White House" concert series, and focused on music from the civil rights era. Both Bob Dylan and Joan Baez performed, though not in fact together. (Initial buzz had specualted that they would be singing a duet.) Smokey Robinson, Yolanda Adams, the Blind ... More >>

Nick Jonas Namechecks Prince, Lady Gaga Says She's Bisexual, White Stripes Boxed Set Due

Electric Mustache: mp3: The Soft Pack - "C'mon"Idolator: Nick Jonas Names Prince As An Inspiration For His Solo AlbumIdolator: Kanye West Apparently Ends Feud With Entertainment WeeklyNME: No Doubt counter-sued by Activision over 'Band Hero'NME: Lady Gaga: 'I'm bisexual and I've had sex with women' ... More >>

Why Do Hot Chicks Always Play Bass and Why Do I Love Them So?

Nico Vega

Mariah's Memoirs, The Thermals in Phoenix, Jackson Nurse Served

Electric Mustache: The Thermals Return to Phoenix in September Idolator: Ghostface Has Not Received The Memo About The Death Of Autotune Idolator: Mariah Carey Making People Wait For Her "Memoirs" NME: Jack White to open White Stripes' archive to fans Pitchfork: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Alec Ounsw ... More >>

Loretta Lynn Is a Legend, but She’s Also Just Plain Kind

The Kills

Killin' Us Haughtily

Beat the Crowd

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Nailed it

The Raconteurs

Broken Boy Soldiers
(V2)

Wolfmother

Hairitage

Media Darlings

Rising above the demo tide

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Party

Battle Acts

Which act deserves your entertainment dollar this week?

The Grrls Next Door

Brrlesque for a new generation

The Volebeats

Like Her
(Turquoise Mountain)

Jucifer

The devil you don't know

The Hives

Tyrannosaurus Hives
(Interscope)

The Dagons

The duo steps out of the dark and into the Valley of the Sun

Mates of State

Music spawned by marital bliss

Original Soul

This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Fever to Tell (Interscope Records)

Rock Crock

One man travels through the best of what American music magazines offer -- and needs a shower

Canadian Smoke

With a new album, killer fashion and trendy referencing, Hot Hot Heat prepares to invade the hip U.S.

About to Burst

On the road with a new album and a still-killer live show, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ain't no joke

Seedy Recovery

"America's Rolling Stones" gather no moss