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But what if The White Stripes had never existed in the first place?

Today, a legend fell. The White Stripes, with their Grammy nominations and color-coordinated outfits (and weird mock brother-sister relationship) have called it quits. The duo has as many fans as critics, but let’s think for a moment about what the world would be like without the Stripes:

The year […]

Jamie

Billy Corgan reignites feud with Pavement if anybody still cares

Hey remember back in 1994 when Pavement released the song “Range Life” on their superb album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain? And remember how the lyrics “Out on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins / Nature kids, (I)they don’t have a function / I don’t understand what they mean / And I could really give a […]

Jamie

Vampire Weekend vs. their own album cover

Kudos to Pitchfork for picking up on this Vanity Fair article about the woman who appears on the cover of Vampire Weekend’s top-selling album, Contra, and is suing pretty much everybody over it. The polaroid of a blonde-haired blue-eyed girl from the 80s is maybe one of the most memorable album covers of […]

Jamie

U.K. lobbyist would LOVE capital punishment for music pirates

Now, I don’t want to put words in so and so’s mouth about such and such off-the-cuff comment, but this one is just too good to pass up and this guy is probably rich and snooty and supports billionaires making more billions of dollars so poor people can’t share music online. Boing Boing caught […]

Jamie

Crystal Castles continue to snub Americans with early album release date

Crystal Castles’ second eponymous LP was due out June 8, but after a quality version of it leaked to the masses, the label was forced to bump the release date. Ok! I mean, I feel awful for the label to be put in this situation, but it means we get the album sooner […]

Jamie

The Hold Steady announce U.S. tour dates

Normally news about The Hold Steady would come from Lee or Jon, our resident Hold Steady experts, but due to schedule restraints you’ll hear it from me! Now, I shouldn’t get your hopes up too high. When I say “U.S.” it really means “the northeast” and when I say “tour dates” it means […]

Jamie

The Grammys: Why bother trying anymore?

Well that happened. Music’s biggest night nightmare of the year played out just like we all knew it would: unpredictably and hilariously miserable. Seriously, so many LOLs! Remember that time Dave Matthews Band was old and boring? And that other time Justin Bieber was too busy trying to be a “cool black guy” to […]

Jamie

Inevitable: Monotonix singer breaks leg during show

Israeli rock trio Monotonix is known for their absurdly dangerous onstage antics that typically involves some combination of: A. Crowd surfing B. Throwing drums C. Crowd surfing on drums or D. Throwing drums and trash cans at people crowd surfing or hanging from the ceiling. They must have anticipated an injury along the way.

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Jamie

Jay Reatard dead at 29

Awesome indie rocker Jay Reatard is dead at the age of 29. He reportedly died in his sleep and was found at home at 3:30 this morning. The music world lost a great one, for […]

Lee

Quick Hits: Bonnaroo, Miracle Fortress, Interpol, The Album Leaf

A bevy of noteworthy information surfaced in the music world today regarding 2010. None long enough to really write a full post about independently, but I know I’d regret not providing the information in case you haven’t heard it. So, here goes:

– Bonnaroo is slated for June 10-13 and ticket holiday pre-sales […]