All the hipsters’ wet dreams have finally come true. Not only is their beloved Rilo Kiley gearing up for the release of their fourth LP, Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros Records, August 21, 2007) but also, the band recently announced that they would be...
Still reaping in fans from the remix album Do You Trust Your Friends?, New York indie-rockers Stars announced plans to embark on a full fledged North American tour this fall. Stars will be supporting their much-hyped fourth album, In the Bedroom After the War,...
I never got to see Soundgarden. Or Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, or the Smashing Pumpkins (thank God that last one will be fixed in due time). My musical consciousness took place at a time when Y-107 (remember that?) was getting off the airwaves, alien stickers were the...
I was shocked to find out that my favorite album ever, Radiohead's OK Computer, has now hit the double-digits in age since its original release. The album, which opened up a huge can of creativity-worms for me, still stands as a triumph of cohesive recording and...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...
For our 6th Lunarcast, we had a chance to meet up with L.A.’s own disco-lovin’ groovemeister Kennedy—yeah, the “Your Mama” guy. We first met up with him June 28 when he played the Warped Tour 2007 pre-party at the Glass House in Pomona,...
I am like powderI am like relaxationI am the snowI dig in this oceanAnd I try to fill it with gold OK, so who hasn’t heard of Matador Records? It’s pretty much the label that virtually every indie band wants to get signed by. After a gig a few...
How many times have you walked away from an otherwise amazing live show thinking "Man, I just wish they had played !" The bad part about the inserting of a new album into a band's canon is that offbeat old favorites often have to surrender their spot in...
As a long-time fan and friend of San Francisco’s The Court & Spark, hearing the possibility of them calling it quits kind of made my heart hurt a little bit. The drummer, James Kim, and I have been friends since 1984 and I was there when he bought his first...
The National have decided to stay out super late this fall, spending five weeks in September and October touring the states before heading over to Ireland on Halloween to kick off a European jaunt. It's a sad fact that cloning technology is still in the rudimentary...