In a year where it has become almost de rigueur for artists to screw with the accepted music release model, Paul Westerberg has come up with yet another variation, for his download-only album 49:00, released today on Amazon..
Betcha didn’t even know that Paul Westerberg had anything new coming out, did you? Neither [...]

This morning, the first episode of the second season of Mad Men showed up in my TiVo’s To Do list. Finally!
With all of the great HBO series long gone, and Sci-Fi shows — even Lost and Battlestar Galactica — eternally (and wrongly!!) consigned to the weirdos ghetto, and/or losing audience as their [...]

I’m stealing this concept from the AV Club, who stole it from Idolator: pick your favorite album for every year you’ve been alive.
Even for someone like me, who’s been obsessively making lists for just about ever, this wasn’t easy. For one thing, I’d never really done it for anything pre-1980, and for another, [...]

“Certain songs,” Craig Finn sang on The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me, “they get scratched into our souls.” That’s the basis of “Certain Songs:” a look at the songs that have done just that. These aren’t necessarily our favorite songs or the songs that we think are the best, but rather songs that — every [...]

Quick! What’s the question that is on everyone’s lips right now? You’d think it would be “Who is going to win the 2008 Presidential Election?” or “Are gas prices ever going to go down?” or “Should I buy one of them cheaper iPhones?” or even “What’s up with the Jonas Brothers?” [...]

The reality is that for decades and decades, pop musicians have mythologized their songs being played on the radio. They love it. It’s always a huge deal: a moment where they felt validated or legit. I mean, have you ever heard an artist ever say, even once, “When I first heard my song on the radio, I called my lawyer, and said, ’sue those bastards, they’re ripping me off.’

By killing the music industry, you made Gene Simmons slightly less rich than he otherwise would have been.

The whole music industry is abuzz this week because the third album by rapper Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III, is expected to sell a million copies this week, an event that has become all too rare in recent years.
What’s incredibly interesting about this is that according to conventional wisdom, there is no way that this [...]

For some geeks, this was going to be a bigger day than even the release of the iPhone 3G. It was going to be the day where we were going to be able to download Firefox 3.0, the latest incarnation of The Only Browser That Matters, and the major window through which we view [...]

Katherine Heigl, who inexplicably won a best supporting actress Emmy last year, has decided that she doesn’t want to be nominated this year.
Not because she isn’t worthy, of course, because this is a woman who is obviously now so full of herself that little bits of her ego drop on the sidewalk as she walks, [...]