The Modern Age

From the official mailing list:
The Raconteurs are pleased to announce the following North American tour dates. You want tickets before they go on sale to the public this weekend? Tomorrow, March 20th, at 10 am local time, you can visit the following links to buy your tickets before everyone else. Please note they [...]

“Loca” on the side, please! Coldplay has just announced the title of their new album, which is to be called er… “Viva la Vida”, which translates to “Long live life,” a quote from Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Of course the name not only congers up images of the vivacious Mexican artist, but also that of another [...]

Thanks to faithful reader Wendy for dropping this new Raconteurs photo in my inbox:

Woah, does this short, black, spikey ‘do remind you of anyone else?
Come and knock on my door…

Have your say: Jack White’s new haircut: UPGRADE/DOWNGRADE?
I vote….

Oh I knew he couldn’t hold out for long. His blog (now called “TOTALLY BORED the musical”) has a whole new look and a new entry which talks about his possible ideas for where the site will be headed. It is an entry he claims he will erase later since his blogging style is “fickleblogging.”

Holy sheboigies! According to the LA Times, the second Raconteurs album, Consolers of the Lonely, will be out NEXT WEEK, on March 25th.

Why is this the first time you are hearing about this album? Oh, that’s because Jack White just dropped it off at the record label LAST WEEK. According to Radiohead’s Atease message board [...]

What can I say, the man just cannot help himself. Kinda like how peanut butter goes with jelly, Ryan Adams and insane internet postings kinda go hand in hand. The onetime prolific marijuana-fueled message board poster cum mp3 recording artist cum infamously broken-hearted video blogger has now unleashed yet another new project in the form [...]

In the early 2000s one of my guilty pleasure songs was “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus. I recently got nostalgic and Googled the song name which lead me to finding this absolutely horrendous version of the song by British pop girl group Girls Aloud. Witness the horror:

There’s no way any of those people have ever listened [...]

I have often been accused of having incurable Anglophilia, but IT’S JUST NOT TRUE, OK? I actually have Scotophilia, which is the obsession with Scottish people. Am I to be held negatively responsible for their hot accents?
Anyhoo, on Sunday the 2008 Empire Awards were held in London, and TMA favorite, James McAvoy won for Best [...]

Check out the latest installment of the Basement Tapes for exclusive performances of the now Seattle-based indie rock fave, Say Hi (aka- the artist formerly known as “Say Hi to Your Mom”). (The 16-year-old kid down the hall who loves robots, rainbows, and being scared of bullies will be eating this shiz UP!)

Features some videos, [...]

When you watch ads for the new Fox television show starring Parker Posey, “The Return of Jezebel James“, you might recognize one of the tunes playing–”Coco” by New York band Stellastarr*.

Apparently the character that “Six Feet Under” star Lauren Ambrose plays is Parker Posey’s (Sarah) sister–a wacky, carefree spirit named “Coco”–so the marketing department went [...]