The Modern Age

KAPOW! Arctic Monkeys and Surefire played a pop-tastic show at the Bowery Ballroom tonight. Mikey Skinner (aka The Streets) was there, and when I saw him I started to hyperventilate like an overactive teenager because I think “A Grand Don’t Come for Free” was the greatest album of 2004. David [...]

Oh holy synergy! Jack White is taking full advantage of his status as a musical visionary to do whatever cross-promoting he wants, even if it means doing covers of songs by bands he helped get signed. One could make such a case with the Stripes recent “cover” of The Greenhornes’ “Shelter of Your Arms,” which [...]

Beck’s “Hell Yes” video by Garth Jennings is now available in streaming video: Windows Media | Real. Thanks to KV for the heads up.

Ah, this week is full of some delicious concert goodness: The Harlem Shakes and Arctic Monkeys @ Mercury tonight, Surefire and A. Monkeys @ Bowery tomorrow, The Sounds @ Hiro on Thursday, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals @ TriPAC and a We Are Scientists showcase both on Friday.
As usual there are some ridiculous posts [...]

Check out Tricia’s Fly Life story about the cat calls and cat fights involving The MisShapes vs. Heatherette and Trinity and Ultra feeling silly about no one knowing who she is. Scandalous!

The Futureheads are keeping fans’ appetites sated until they finish their 2nd album (slated for 2006) by releasing a 3-song EP entitled Area. Check out the video for the EP’s title song right here. Unfortunately the video is not so thrilling. Can’t we get a “Hounds of Love” video reprise or something? Link from [...]

Folks over at the Ryan Adams message board are trying to figure out what makes up Jack White’s pedal board, producing some humorous comments. Some guesses as to the gear on the board are the Digitech Whammy (that’s the one Jack is moving his foot to step on), a Boss TU2 tuner, an MXR Micro [...]

An article in today’s Guardian lightly skims the surface of the idea that music bloggers have developed an almost indecipherable way of writing. Here’s an excerpt:
“So, I could now sit down for coffee with a friend and, quoting liberally from New York’s Village Voice blog Status Ain’t Hood, written by Tom Breihan, opine: ‘Pillowy drama-nerd [...]

I know this is old news, but I just had to write about Marguerite Perrin from Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy. I just *happen* to catch the now infamous “EVERYTHING IS UN-GODLY” episode last week, and I have to say, it was one of the most amazing reality TV moments ever.
If you haven’t already [...]

Sometimes listening to Shakira talk about things other that music reminds me of listening to a first year psych student (or in the past it’s reminded me of English-as-a-second-language Alanis):
From the New York Times:
“As an attention-getter, a pop star showing skin needs no further justification. Yet Shakira, 28, has other ideas about her latest chosen [...]