THE JO-TEL is going to drink its way to Dover

“When I was touring for the Liz Phair CD, my tour manager was Brett Radin, who’s this awesome guy. He makes touring really really fun, and for me to say that is a big deal. After working together for about a year, he told me that he was leaving. And I was like, wha? He […]

Everyday weekday morning when I read Pitchfork Media, the biggest online music review site, I experience of mixed bag of emotions. On the one hand, I am greeted with various niceties, including: intriguing revelations regarding new music; Pitchfork’s take on leaked albums that I’ve already digested; or a new William Bowers column. At […]

If anybody is still talking about the Hold Steady in 20 years I will kill anything that moves.
-PETE

if i’ve said it once, i’ve said it a million times: sprinkling in cheesy keyboard bridges with panicked female breathing and perhaps a saw and broken glass is fucking funny.
–BMK12000 on Nurse with Wound’s sound experiment album Homotopy to Marie

On the walk over to The Independent I found myself behind this women walking home from work. I walked behind her for about nine blocks, with turns, and she was acting like she was a little afraid I was stalking here even though it just so happened that we had the same route. […]

I look at this and all I see is cardigan.

In this installment, Hip E., in responding to a discussion regarding a musician named Chick Corea, shows why he’s considered to be in the top ranks of Scientology scholars.
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Up till now I’ve known Chick Corea primarily as a regrettably-famous jazzorsomething-playing Scientology clown who is usually mentioned in the first five celebrity Scientologists. […]

Undeterred by the rain or by the credible reports that Liars’ frontman Angus Andrews had severely injured his back, I went to the Liars concert at Slim’s. Also, we all know that, as a music venue, Slim’s blows chupacabras. So I was also undeterred by that, because Liars are one of my favorite […]

The results of the third annual indie rock draft are motherfucking in. In a surprise turn of events Shark is dethroned for the first year ever!! Just kidding I won again. PETE came in second, usurping Johnny D’s perennially second place role. In Johnny D’s defense, his time is unoccupied these days by things […]

Watching MTV2 right now (as in, like four weeks ago when I started this post):
See the latest videos from today’s [positive adjective] bands.
Thrice - “Digital Sea”
What? Thrice? The lyrics to this go “Drowning … in a digital sea.” This is terrible. This is MTV2 (with emphasis, TWO!). What the fuck? I need to say something. […]