Electro-punk rockers Mindless Self Indulgence have stormed out the gate with their latest album If. They have now two top-selling singles from the album. Check it: NYC electro/punk band, MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE, tops the Billboard Hot Singles chart with songs at both top positions as “Pay For It” and “On It” debut at #1 and [...]
Elvis Costello is the Lord of Everything. Live shots by Aaron Seals, Lord of Aperture.
Our resident photography guru Aaron Seals mosied on down to the Sleeptrain Amphitheater last night to record one of the greatest pairings ever conjured for a show: Elvis Costello opening for The Police. We’ll let the photos do the struttin’ for us.
The above picture is probably about as close as anyone got to President Bush when he passed through Redding, CA, today to view the wildfires in the Northstate (and this probably wasn’t even the aircraft he was in). I actually don’t blame him for not wanting to touch down or talk to anyone; people in [...]
Why does anyone even try to produce something that isn’t based on a graphic novel or comic book these days? Watch and learn…and scratch your head…by going to someone else’s blog to see it! See, if you don’t frequent the film nerd sites all day, you wouldn’t have been privy to the fact that the [...]
Austin, Texas, twosome Yellow Fever had little control over the dwindling crowd at Nick’s Night Club in Chico, California this week. The headliner had canceled, and the band was forced to bear the brunt of being a foreign act…in a foreign town…at a foreboding hour of the night. With a simple setup of a drum [...]
Retro-funk/rap/country/rock loser guru Beck has hit #4 on the US album charts after selling 85,000 copies of his new record Modern Guilt in the first week of its release. The Modern Guilt vinyl release will be one of a kind too…just like Beck! Awwwww. Check it: The vinyl edition of Modern Guilt, in stores July [...]
With a big, noodly, nostalgic-metal onslaught and a penchant for the dramatic, Custard Records artist Bigelf are sure to turn more than their fair share of heads with the release of the prog-metal decadent Cheat the Gallows when it’s released August 12th. The band has released an MP3 for “Money, It’s Pure Evil,” which you [...]
Finally, for schlubs like me who have been singing in bands for 10 years, but still have no idea how to keep their voice from sounding like they gargle with shards of glass, The Art of Screaming DVD is slated to inject the shot in the throat for all you prospective troubadours. The instructional film [...]
On the day of the band’s debut release on Wind-Up Records, Madeline, Tickle Me Pink bassist Johnny Schou was found dead this morning at home in Fort Collins, CO. No details have been given. Check back for updates as they are received.
