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Our favorite blog aggregator, Regator, is taking a walk this Friday and we’re coming along for the stroll. At 6pm, they will start at Twain’s where they will hang until about 8, then off to two of our favorites, Brick Store Pub and Leon’s Full Service, then a quick dip into Mac McGee’s before [...]
Join us for our new book club A-List Literates launching Feb. 22 at Eddie’s Attic.
The major record labels are full of great new (old) ideas, like the EP.
Rachel Maddux pronounces Indie Dead! in the pages of Paste Magazine.
Billboard reports that Vampire Weekend was #1.
Mustachioed keyman Franz Nicolay Leaves The Hold Steady.
Paste’s Rachel Bailey gets scientific [...]
By Rube Ambler
Rachael Maddux of Paste recently offered up a list of Sneaky Spy Songs. It’s a good list based on song titles and band names but it left off my all time favorite sneaky spy song. Though in fairness, my selection has a lot more to do with the video than the name of [...]
By Rube Ambler
One year ago this week, when this blog was known by few and posts were weekly events not daily dishes, I wrote about hope. We were inaugurating a new president and had no sense of the dismal months ahead of us as our country staggered through job losses, more dead soldiers, and [...]
The past 30 days have delivered a terrible string of musical losses. Memphis garage-rocker Jay Reatard was found dead in his home on Wednesday.
Jay’s punk antics often masked what was at the core a great sense of melody and reflective songwriting. This is a track that was released on a Matador sampler in the spring [...]
Read Chad Radford’s feature about the original A-Lister, Bernadette Seacrest
R.I.P. Willie Mitchell, the man who discovered Al Green.
Lady GaGa to star in her own comic book available on free comic book day
Vampire Weekend’s Contra is streaming here.
Prefix Mag reports that Kanye West thinks he’s Maya Angelou.
Many great free legal downloadable live performances by Vic Chesnutt [...]
We have long maintained that the most interesting people to hang out with are artists, musicians and authors. (To all our architect, doctor, scientist, and even accountant friends, we still love you…really). So one of the real joys of this little project is that we often get to talk to folks driven by their creative forces just because we rented some space on [...]
