She should join the band

TakeAwayShows.com is a video/music project with a simple but beautiful concept: Capture impromptu acoustic performances of musicians and bands in natural environments, such as playing and singing with friends and strangers in the streets of Paris, gathered in an old stairwell, or in a rooftop garden. They've captured performances by bands like Sigur Ros, Architecture in Helsinki, Bloc Party, and Fleet...

Really liking this new video from The Horrors.

Hailing from Palm Desert, CA, Kyuss (pronounced "kai-uss") has become something like a heavy metal equivalent to the Velvet Underground. Although they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence, but their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (often played through a bass amp for...

Come see Chan and her band perform at the Avalon in Los Angeles this week, Tuesday 2/10 and Wednesday 2/11. Tickets can be purchased at live nation and are a steep $41.50. See you there...muah!

New Hot Chip - "Transmission" (Joy Division Cover) (Stereogum Premiere) Earlier today we heard Lily Allen and Mick Jones' take on "Straight To Hell" from Warchild's Heroes compilation. Hot Chip's reinvention of Joy Division's "Transmission" appears on that same collection. When they (and Peter Gabriel) covered Vampire Weekend they gave "Kwassa Kwassa" a more electronic bent and truly meta angle, but...

Funnyordie.com is streaming the Season 2 premier episode of HBO's Flight of the Conchords a month before it hits tv.  Treat yourself this holiday season.

Helen Marnie, one-fourth of the universally respected electro-pop group Ladytron, makes a good point when she discusses the perks of a slow-building fan base. “I think some bands are hyped far too much initially, and therefore they feel the pressure to have the same success with their next album.” While Ladytron has certainly seen their share of hype in the past few years, the hype did build slowly...

so i should throw out a little disclaimer here.   i support independent, trying, musicians with all of my heart.  To compose a melody and sing overtop boggles my mind an i respect anyone who can accomplish such a feat.  Ive seen good musicians and horrible musicians, both of which i have respect for! great respect.   i remember playing the saxophone when i was young in front of...

Today marks the premier of our new series Faces In The Crowd, a show in which we give unsuspecting audience members the chance to interview their favorite band. In this case, we brought 3 would-be music journalists backstage to pick the brains of Xavier & Gaspard of Justice, and they even got Gaspard to speak!

HOT CHIP in Vancouver

Can't wait to see these guys again,if you don't go you are seriously missing out on a experience you wont forget. The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos -- it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first...