I am not certain of the relevancy of the MTV VMA Awards in this day and age. Or music awards in general. Anyhow, you might dig sorting through what MTV incorrectly or correctly deemed the best vids of the years. Not surprisingly, Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know” video is up for the best of the […]
Legendary southern California rapper Snoop Dogg has changed his name to Snoop Lion. Calvin Broadus Jr, as his legal name stands, took a trip to Jamaica in January and apparently had a spiritual revelation. Then a Rastafarian priest rechristened prompted him to change his name. No more Snoop D-O-Double-G. Regarding the change, Snoop Lion stated: I […]
Boise’s Finn Riggins’ hasn’t taken much of a break since Treefort Festival 2012. They released their new Benchwarmers EP in Apri. Then they dropped a video for that album’s track “Plural“. They hit the road on tour and have now released a bitchin, 8-bit video for “Big News”. Kudos to director Joseph Von Stengel for both recreating the […]
Did you catch Lana Del Rey’s recent cover of Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box“? It was another stunt by the LDR campaign to cook up some buzz and resulted in a somewhat decent cover of Kurt Cobain’s classic song. Anyhow, Courtney Love decided she needed another reason for everyone to realize she’s a horrible human being and leapt […]
On the drive back from last weekend’s Capitol Hill Block Party, I was running low on new tunes in the car and tossed in an old mix CD. To my pleasant surprise, Pinback happened to be on that CD. I began wondering if we’d ever see a new Pinback album. It’s been five years since […]