Stuff We Like

The big New Radicals song is “You Get What You Give.” This massive hit did so well that I know many who got sick of hearing it by the time it faded away. It’s mostly remembered for its rousing optimism and positivity. It’s tight structure is filled in with lyrics like, “Don’t let go/You’ve got [...]

In the interviews leading up to Mylo Xyloto, Chis Martin cited at least three separate influences on the concept behind the album: graffiti art, the White Rose movement, and, most perplexingly, the five-season HBO drama The Wire.
I don’t understand how that works either.
The Wire is a now-legendary HBO series that ran from 2002 to [...]

We know now, twenty years after their releases that Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik were game changing feats of sonic achievement. However, when the albums first came out,  (in a display of cosmic magic, on the very same day in the fall of 1991), we could only go [...]

Did you see Fast Five last weekend? That’s not a trick question. Millions of people did, making this fifth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise something of a surprise box office smash. In fact, Fast Five set the April weekend box office record, opening at number one and raking in 83.6 million dollars [...]

Besides producing some of the most highly regarded psychedelic rock albums of the past two decades, the Flaming Lips have always put nearly as much effort into their visuals, from their endlessly creative music videos to their dazzlingly colorful live show. So the announcement of an upcoming photo book – entitled All We Have [...]

This is one of those types of stories that seems like it wouldn’t really happen, but apparently it can. So Much Silence reports that Band of Horses showed up at a recent wedding in Tromso, Norway after the couple had gotten engaged at the band’s show earlier in the year in Oslo.
Here’s a bit more [...]

Check out this awesome cover of The Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” live from the CD101 Big Room:

Check out this video interview and performance with violinist David Garrett that Rolling Stone recently posted. He discusses his methods for transforming songs like Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” into a string rendition:
“Of course you kind of try to stay true to the core of the essence of the original but try to go as far [...]

25 Bands, 25 Cover Songs. 1 Small Round Room.
A new music-video series over at avclub.com which featuring awesome bands playing awesome covers. The website has everything from The Swell Season performing Neutral Milk Hotel to Rise Against covering Nirvana.
More details and videos here.
The Swell Season covers Neutral Milk Hotel
Rise Against covers Nirvana