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This week's playlist featured new music from Earlimart, Mirah, The Howling Hex and The Cribs, to name a few. Be sure to listen in next week when GC favorites Pela join us in the studio to talk about their new album Anytown Graffiti. Missed it? Listen to the podcast...

Wednesday, 30 May 2007
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I got my first taste of the Crosstown Rebels label when I picked up Rebel Futurism Sampler Part 1 with the M.A.N.D.Y. remix of Joakim’s “Come Into My Kitchen” a few years ago. Ever since then, hit after hit has been pouring from the London-based...

Friday, 25 May 2007
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Flipping through a variety of newspapers and reading a wide selection of music rags, I keep coming across reviews of Elliott Smith's posthumous collection, New Moon—each one invariable tagged and dragged by some sort of personal reminiscence. Windswept, rainy...

Wednesday, 23 May 2007
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It seems like more times than not in my life it’s by the seat of my pants that I fly. This night would be no exception, and as a result I’d like to thank everyone involved at the onset. You know who you are, all five or so of you. Thank you. When the...

Monday, 21 May 2007
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Rumors of Superdrag’s death may have been greatly exaggerated. Or at least intransigent fans of one of Tennessee’s finest purveyors of rock & roll songcraft can pretend as much thanks to last month’s Changin’ Tires on the Road to Ruin, an...

Thursday, 17 May 2007
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Back once again for an evening of kick-ass music and awkward banter, it's Ground Control Radio. Be sure to check it out next Tuesday night at 8pm PST on www.littleradio.com. For now, listen to the podcast and peep the playlist: Ground Control Radio 5/15 Playlist:...

Wednesday, 16 May 2007
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Listen up (literally)! Every Tuesday evening at 8pm PST, catch the editors of Ground Control as we spin the latest and greatest music on Ground Control Radio. Broadcast over the internet by our friends at www.littleradio.com, we'll play music, talk about music,...

Tuesday, 15 May 2007
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At the heart of a good cover pulses synthesis. Requiring more than just fidelity to note, timbre, and technique, a few good covers exceed their predecessors (dare I suggest The Byrds' version of "Hey Mr. Tambourine Man"?) but most re-workings of widely...

Monday, 14 May 2007
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On October 18, 2000, Zack De La Rocha announced that he was leaving Rage Against The Machine. Less than a month later, in a storm of irony that not even Oscar Wilde could have dreamt up, our current president won his first presidential election. Rage had always flown...

Sunday, 13 May 2007
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Eddie Argos is coincidental. After forming a band, he and his fellow Art Brut members got together and practically ad-libbed their debut sensation, Bang Bang Rock & Roll. “It was nerve-wracking this time around,” exclaims Argos. “We had written...

Friday, 11 May 2007
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