Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: Everyone Everywhere – A Lot Of Weird People Standing Around. I first heard of Philadelphia’s Everyone Everywhere close to a year ago, when Fistfight At The Arthouse featured a write up of their EP, … [Read more…]
The New York Times‘ ArtsBeat blog has confirmed the death of Big Star singer and guitarist Alex Chilton: Alex Chilton, the mercurial if influential rock musician, whose work spanned an eclectic gamut from the soul songs of the Box Tops to the multiple incarnations of his pop band Big Star, has died, The Commercial Appeal … [Read more…]
SXSW, the internationally renowned music trade show, officially kicks off the live music portion of the expanding festival tomorrow. It’s the one week of the year that Texas bests every other state in the union in the “holds more music geeks per square foot” contest. In the ever-evolving realm of music journalism, media outlets are … [Read more…]
Every year around St. Patrick’s Day the Chicago River turns green… with a little help from some dye of course. Yesterday, Chicagoans packed the riverwalk, bridges and sidewalks adjacent to the river to seen it morph into the unnatural-looking green for the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The color of the river looked like something … [Read more…]
South African hip-hop act and Internet sensation Die Antwoord have signed to Interscope, according to Boing Boing [via the Daily Swarm]: “And that’s what I did to Jimmy Iovine,” he says. “He didn’t seem to like it, but nobody told me it wasn’t cool to do that. And then I kissed him on each cheek, because we … [Read more…]
Free the Music is a guide to new albums, EPs and songs that are available for free online. Today’s drop is: ARMS – EP. When ARMS, aka Todd Goldstein, dropped last year’s Kids Aflame, it got a solid amount of press for an act that was the part-time gig of The Harlem Shakes‘ guitarist. But, … [Read more…]
I recently wrote a piece on all-ages shows and DIY venues in Chicago for Medill. The article went online Tuesday, and comes with a (brief) sister piece about the history of all-ages and DIY shows in America, a video and slideshow of a couple of venues and a handful of graphs and photos of these shows. … [Read more…]
Rolling Stone brought sad news Saturday night concerning singer-songwriter Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse: Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous has committed suicide, his publicist confirms to Rolling Stone. Those unfamiliar with Sparklehorse’s dream-like pop may look no further than his collaboration with musical wunderkid Danger Mouse’s on the musical experiment Dark Night of the Soul. That … [Read more…]
I don’t tend to follow too many TV shows, so I was excited when my Twitter feed blasted this at the top of my screen [via Donald Glover]: Community just got picked up for a second season. That’s right. “Community” will have a second season. If you haven’t had the distinct pleasure of watching one … [Read more…]
Chuck Klosterman has grown into his role as the go-to writer for almost any publication when it comes to writing insightful commentary on pop music. His newest piece, an article on the Pavement reunion for GQ, will probably be a favorite read for music fans for the year, and it will more than likely be … [Read more…]