
Several Chicago rockers are banding together at Lincoln Hall on Thursday, Sept. 1, for raise money for Girls Rock! Chicago . Mike Kinsella, of such revered emo groups Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc and Owen - just to name a few, will join Braid frontman Bob Nanna, Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman, Spitalfield's Mark Rose, The Felix Culpa's Dustin Currier and Weekend Nachos' Drew Brown on stage to perform as 80s pop legends The Cure. This isn't the first time Kinsella has assembled friends to cover a uber-popular 80s artist for a Girls [...]

The All Saints Spitalfields / I AM SOUND 2011 Day Party at Shangri-La on Wednesday was excellent, a definite contender for best day party/showcase at SXSW thus far. Following a set from Friendly Fires, which I sadly missed, LA's latest talk of the town Foster The People took to the stage.. or backyard tent. Fresh off the heels off of what's likely to be LA's best residency showing yet in 2011, this young multi-instrumentntalist and multi-tasking collective proved not an ounce short of all the hype they've been showered with at this their first [...]
All Saints kicked off 2011 with some musical and cultural appreciation, the brand spawned basement sessions a fortnightly initiative. Basement Sessions is filmed in warehouse space below the Allsaints design studios situated in east London where live performances, lectures and interviews are filmed. Here is a platform that the brand have created not only to [...]
This is it folks. Not only did I give you 12 days of Christmas MP3's this year, but I also managed an additional 3 days of holiday music. Hope you've enjoyed all these songs. As always, you can find all of it here: Day 1 , Day 2 , Day 3 , Day 4 , Day 5 , Day 6 , Day 7 , Day 8 , Day 9 , Day 10 , Day 11 , Day 12 , Day 13 and Day [...]
...while we're a couple days behind on getting this up to you, we just wanted to let everyone know about some Daytonians that are currently out on the road spreading the word. After a successful winter tour opening up for Hawthorne Heights, The Story Changes have teamed up with HH frontman JT Woodruff [on his [...]
The best-selling album of all time, sampled by current hitmakers like Rihanna and Kanye, it just received a flaccid "25 Anniversary" edition with covers that sound just the originals…but shittier. So here is how they should have done it, some songs drastically reinvented, other turned into smooth jazz jams. Think you've got a better version of any of these songs though? As always, let me know. It's close to midnight… -Update: New feature being added to all the Full Album posts. When the individual link expires, there will still be a rapidshare link [...]