2010

Televised Tune: On the Tube This Week

What better way to prepare for Halloween than by watching the ultra-campy Rocky Horror Picture Show? Fox Movie Channel will run the creepy cult classic, which stars Susan Sarandon and

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Street Sweeper Social Club – Paper Planes

Sure, the Street Sweeper Social Club’s cover of M.I.A.’s ubiquitous hit Paper Planes may seem like its coming a couple of years too late, but the rap-rock “super group” –

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Jesse Harris: Through The Night

The prolific Jesse Harris also boasts a diverse and affecting group of solo records, and the latest, Through the Night, is a deceptively dense experience. Appropriately titled, the record is distinctly flavored for consumption after dark, and it's full of melodies and vocals that nicely evoke the wee hours.

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Crystal Castles Embarking On Spring Tour

After a sold out 2010 summer tour, Crystal Castles will embark on further North American dates this coming March. CRYSTAL CATSLES SPRING 2011 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATESMarch 2    San Diego

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Matt Joiner: Wing

With respect to Widespread Panic’s Jimmy Herring, the finest guitar work in the Low Country last weekend wasn’t the noodling at the North Charleston Coliseum.  Another Athens, GA export was kicking it in Chuck Taylor’s and a flat cap in a dive bar a few exits west on Friday night.  Matt Joiner was on absolute fire, and it isn’t a stretch to imagine the twenty-something rhythm and blues guitarist holding court in arenas one day soon—until then you're advised to catch his power trio at a hole in the wall in your neck of the woods. 

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Destroyer’s Ninth Album Kaputt Due Jan 25

Destroyer’s ninth studio album, Kaputt, will be hitting shelves January 25th via Merge Records. In typically odd fashion, Destroyer mastermind Dan Bejar describes the record in a big paragraph titled

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