Monday's mp3: Old Bollywood Is New Again
Now that I've heard the Australian band Bombay Royale, it seems so obvious.
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Now that I've heard the Australian band Bombay Royale, it seems so obvious.
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Ever since the release of his debut album I Get Wet at the end of 2001, songs such as 'Party Hard', 'It's Time To Party', 'Fun Night' and 'Party Til You Puke', have earned him a reputation as a lunatic rocker, beloved of skaters, slackers, stoners, and a bunch of people who ought to know better.
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Last week , we took a look at the relative dearth of leading men in Hollywood: why Tom Cruise, Will Smith et al remain at the top of the tree, and why so few serious competitors have emerged since.
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On 20th April, the next edition of Fred Perry's Subsonic series takes over the Garage, London, with Greg Wilson and Afrika Bambaataa playing the main room downstairs.
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Prior to hearing Smoke Ring for My Halo in full, the two Kurt Vile songs I came across via numerous blogs were "In My Time" and "Jesus Freaks."
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Katatonia 's roots go back to the Scandinavian death metal scene of the late '80s and early '90s, but since forming in 1991, the band's sound has evolved every few years.
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There's a lot that's right about Alice Cooper's latest, Welcome 2 My Nightmare , and at the same time an awful lot that's wrong.
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What did they do to commemorate the milestone?
Read MoreAustinist reviews 69 Love Scenes , a play inspired by Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs. 69 Love Scenes, which opened last week at Salvage Vanguard Theater, is to a Magnetic Fields fanatic as X-Men: Generation X is to a die-hard Marvel fan.
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Prepare yourself for a wild devilish ride, my friends.
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Harvey Bassett has had a long and idiosyncratic career in dance music, one that speaks as much to the necessity of scene and tastemakers in that sphere as actual musicians.
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Was one of the most potent art-rock groups of the past 10 years headed toward an early retirement?
Read MoreThere's 90 albums to go in our look at the 300 metal records that grace my iPod.
Read MoreThings. by Drunk on Crutches was my favorite surprise of 2010, then Halcyon Times by Jason & The Scorchers may have been my most anticipated album of the year.
Read MoreHis punk rock resume aside, I'm actually a big KMK fan.
Read MoreAlong with festival-maiming weather, England losing a major sporting event and your office air-conditioning breaking, each UK summer brings with it an inevitable search for the 'sound of summer'.
Read MoreNo, a "Maelstrom of Metal", so brutal and diverse that it was well worth the price of airfare for this rabid American metalhead to fly across the pond to experience it herself.
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On its 1995 six-song EP, Bomb the Twist, The 5.6.7.8 's manage to deliver all the basic elements of every rockabilly-surf rock band ever in just over 15 minutes.
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The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is a behemoth of goodness and gorgeousness.
Read MoreMany decades have passed since Devo issued their first stark warnings that mankind is hurtling towards extinction.
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