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…and guitars, and basses, and microphones? Then you might find yourself clamoring for the new Nylon book called PLAY, which heavily focuses on some of the hottest, most stylish, and sometimes controversial, female figures to ever rock the music world. Interviews with people like Jenny Lewis and Peaches and homages to the style of Amy [...]

A little shout-out to my friend Sarah. You may know her as the top banana over at indie music label Stolen Transmission or as international arbiter of mirth and merriment, Ultragrrrl, but she’s got a new job as the blogger for a new blog called Almack’s Dance Hall (which is run by Universal records). She [...]

I just logged on to SPIN.com and was met with a whole lot of change–looks like they launched a redesign of the site. Much more modular, much more dynamic. But is it better? What do you think?

New York City homies Vampire Weekend are quickly becoming as ubiquitous as MacBook Air commercials–currently gracing the cover of the music magazine for the “blawg-rockers”, SPIN and now they are featured in the new issue of Nylon magazine:

(Bigger photo on Vorrasi.com.)
The shots were taken at Tom & Jerry’s bar in the East Village by TMA [...]

Did some sleuthing this morning and FINALLY fixed the RSS feed. Yay!
You can now subscribe to the RSS feed by plugging in themodernage.org/feed/ into your RSS reader of choice.
Here’s to minor victories!

Little did I realize that while I was watching Just My Luck last night on HBO that I would be checking out Lindsay Lohan’s naked breasts the very next day. It seems as though someone at New York magazine had the brilliant idea to let photographer Bert Stern recreate his famous Marilyn Monroe “The Last [...]

I woke up this morning to find my blog post about this weekend’s Marty Crandall/Elyse Sewell’s mash-up in Sacramento totally re-purposed without any attribution by The Post Chronicle writer Jim Brogan. (Thanks for the notes from readers who also noticed!)
Mr. Brogan has blatantly taken my January 5th blog post–swapping in synonyms every now and then–and [...]

Surprise surprise, Jack White hates journalists. Read an excerpt from the White Stripes interview with…Interview. Thanks to W. for the link.

The Stripey love of the UK continues, with a very special release of “Rag and Bone,” the first release of material off of Icky Thump, being distributed free with an issue of NME on June 6.
According to NME:
The track will be pressed onto red vinyl, while the flipside will feature a etching designed exclusively by [...]