When they kick out your front door

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

The Arcade Fire’s weird and wonderful promotional site for their upcoming Neon Bible has posted a video of the band performing a cover of the Clash’s “Guns of Brixton.” Head to neonbible.com/yope.html and click “6. Guns” to check it out. The grainy monochrome video and the perspective of the camera really add to it.
Now apparently [...]

The Good, The Bad & The Queen

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Call it the effect of an ocean between us, but the work of Damon Albarn has been fairly inconsequential in my life. In North America it’s easy to see Blur and Gorillaz as just two more imported mainstream rock acts, just as easy to avoid as they are to discover. Of course that’s not at [...]

Top 20 Of 2004

Friday, December 31st, 2004

* This article is originally from Punknews.org , of course.
Ever since the leaves started to change I’ve been hyping “list making time” around the proverbial Punknews office like it was the coming of the Christian apocalypse. There’s a zeal us music geeks have for this that I can’t quite explain, comes with the occupation I [...]

Thoughts On The Grammys

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

That was a surprisingly dignified awards ceremony. I haven’t watched the Grammy awards in years (for good reason). The only things I’ve seen recentlyare clips from the MTV awards, which are usually just a mixture of lip syncing, softcore porn and seizure inducing blinking lights. This wasn’t too bad a show though, Nelly “performance” aside. [...]