Month: July 2009

The Emmys continue to be a mixed bag of relevancy

The 2009 Emmy nominations are out you guys! Not those stupid daytime ones, I’m talkin’ PRIMETIME TELEVISION. Like the kind not always on the computer (huh?). Like you may or may not have expected, the nominations are part great, part awful and part confusing. Highlights!! 30 Rock got 22 nominations! As it should. Tangiers the lion is weeping with… Continue reading The Emmys continue to be a mixed bag of relevancy

[MP3s] Your Siren Music Festival Preview

It’s Thursday, so that means the bestest, hippest, most free music festival of the summer is about to kick off. For those of you at Under A Rock University where you major in not knowing things (zinger!!), the Siren Music Festival is a one-day, two-stage, free show at Coney Island, NY. Home of people eating… Continue reading [MP3s] Your Siren Music Festival Preview

NYC Show Alert: The Grates playing Pianos tomorrow

Australia’s The Grates will be playing Pianos Residency in Manhattan (Lower East Side) TOMORROW (7/14). You may not expect them to be my cup of tea, but then consider that the trio (two girls, one guy) meshes so many different sounds together – I feel like I’m listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and Cold… Continue reading NYC Show Alert: The Grates playing Pianos tomorrow

The Dead Weather disappoint on Horehound

I had high hopes for The Dead Weather. We all did, let’s be real. The news that a member each from The Raconteurs and The Queens of the Stone Age would join The Kills’ Allison Mosshart and Jack White was exhilarating! I remember being all “My jaw dropped. Really, it did.” But now that their… Continue reading The Dead Weather disappoint on Horehound

Confide covers “Such Great Heights” chug chug chug

This video’s been making the internet rounds lately based largely on the fact that it’s freaking fantastic. Underoath copiers extraordinaire Confide (don’t click that) apparently thought it would be totally hardcore to record a cover of The Postal Service‘s “Such Great Heights,” and here’s the video. Hilarity ensues. Or not. I really don’t know, I’m… Continue reading Confide covers “Such Great Heights” chug chug chug

Get lost in The Hudson Branch

The Hudson Branch‘s Tightrope Walker isn’t quite a grower, and I’m at fault for believing it to be one at first. I’d start listening, and as the album went on I’d grow to appreciate it more and more. Hence, a grower, right? But I just had something of a realization: it’s not that the listener… Continue reading Get lost in The Hudson Branch

Interview with Adrian Jewett of The Most Serene Republic

With The Most Serene Republic set to drop their newest effort, …And The Ever Expanding Universe, tomorrow, we thought it would be of interest to hear what lead man Adrian Jewett thinks about his musicianship, The Most Serene Republic in general, the new sound, and beyond. Good luck deciphering! Check out this previous post about… Continue reading Interview with Adrian Jewett of The Most Serene Republic