Archive: 2013

Among South Park’s many outlandish premises, the set-up for “Ginger Cow” is undoubtedly one of the wackiest.

As STS9 prepares to wrap the year with Mayan Holidaze in Mexico and five nights in Atlanta for New Year’s Eve, the acclaimed Santa Cruz-based instrumental electronic rock band has just announced dates for their 2014 Winter Tour. The 24-date headlining run will kick off January 23 at the House of Blues in San Diego, […]

The Halloween horrors are extended into this week’s episode.

Mark Pursell takes a closer look at this schizophrenic Bollywood trainwreck.

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Chris Hardwick’s new Comedy Central series, ‘@Midnight,’ is the funniest new show on TV — and for an incredibly simple reason: It allows professional funny-people a platform to say funny things.

Simple Plan have defiantly remained Simple Plan, astutely aware of both their strengths and their respective weaknesses.

“This record I wasn’t really into anything,” says Tom Hamilton about his latest American Babies record Knives & Teeth.  “The only thing I really listened to regularly was Alice In Chains. They were such a brilliant band. Honest and powerful. That’s what I wanted this album to be. Honest and powerful.” The anguish of Layne […]

Arcade Fire played a set of twelve songs on top of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood on October 29th for a “secret” rooftop performance in connection with the release of their new record Reflektor.  The band performed above a wall of reflective streamers, thirty feet above the audience, who gathered below in a fenced-in […]

This was possibly the best episode of the series so far.

Last night’s episode is definitely Sweeps-worthy

Multi-instrumentalist ZZ Ward, born Zsuzsanna Eva Ward, is celebrating a whirlwind year of accomplishments, which includes releasing her new album Til The Casket Drops and headlining a national tour. ZZ brought her Down and Dirty Shine Tour to the intimate Paradise Rock Club in Boston. With a minimalist stage production, outside of her black and […]

Band of Horses frontman Ben Bridwell has been looking for a way to start over.

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and Queens of the Stone Age are two bands that one might not link aside from their bluesy dips and stabs at menacing riffs that  helped define their own musical eras. But for blues rock outfit Butchers of Sky Valley, it’s two of their biggest influences, as these Brooklyn musicians create […]

The 2013 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, Nov 1 – 3, 2013 in New Orleans

YMSB performing in Charlotte, NC

Mogwai, who recently announced the release of their eighth studio album, Rave Tapes, on Jan. 21 via Sub Pop, have confirmed an extensive spring tour of North America (dates listed below). The Scottish quintet gave fans an early listen to music from Rave Tapes last week, streaming the single “Remurdered” via Sub Pop’s Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/subpop/mogwai-remurdered/s-2gdM2). […]

White Denim will kick off 2014 with a six-week headline tour that begins at the Bluebird Theatre in Denver, CO on January 27. The run will include a show at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA (February 5), two-night stands at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA (February 7 and 8) and The Sinclair in […]

Regardless of whether or not Yes care about the award, they still deserve it. Here are five reasons why.