'Ey youse,I know whatcha thinkin', yer thinkin', “Well it's about time Donnie, we're startin' ta get the shakes 'ere! Whatcha got?” What can I say? Whenna boss is away (fi' dollar Billy went south fer a couple o' weeks), I see no reason ta get ta work! He's back though, so I am too; wit' a great big bag o' SWAG ta boot! Some of it is even good an' addictive, junky! The mos' addictive tunes're stuff likethe Noah Hyde...

It's rare to catch a show at the Metro in Chicago and have room to breathe and take it all in. Which made it all the more surprising when openers The Right Now took the stage to no more then 40 people. The Chicago band, led by the boisterous Stefanie Berecz, took a few songs to get warmed up, but it was fun to watch them win the crowd over. By the end of the set, the crowd swelled as...

Remember a couple of months ago, when Dave Grohl announced that Foo Fighters were going to go to sleep for a little while but left no further details? Some fans got nervous; Grohl has proven to be a bit of a workaholic over the last fifteen years, lending his talents to dozens of albums, so the announcement that the singer/drummer/renaissance man was in the wind got fans wondering and worrying. Fans shouldn't have worried in the slightest. Yes it's true...

I know it’s been a while since I’ve written one of these, but hopefully things are about to change. And by that I don’t think things will change at all. Witness the second edition of the Vinyl Vlog where we review both the vinyl package and the music within the grooves of Cat Power's Sun – one of this year’s hottest* records. Cat Power’s new album Sun is a great comeback for the blog because it does everything a Vinyl...

Cat Power is weird, don’t you think? First of all, her music is hard to describe (Aggro-easy-listening? Minimalist-throaty-pop? Girl-band?). Second, there’s a bit of a mystery surrounding Chan Marshall a.k.a. Cat Power. Like, what’s the deal with all those cover albums she releases? Why has she zeroed in on felines as the ideal source of energy? And who exactly is she kidding when she says that her astrological sign has any effect whatsoever on how/when her new album got recorded....