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Stream National Skyline's exceptional new album, Primitive Parade, below. Next, buy it over...

If you ever spent time on the older Surfing on Steam platform then you know that National Skyline is one my favorite L.A. acts. While I applaud numerous bands resurrecting dream-pop and atmospheric music, particularly from the late 80s/early 90s, no one does it quite like NS. There's an obvious skill and natural flow in Jeff Garber's songwriting that allows the lyrics to take center stage without ever sacrificing the atmospheric elements. "Dream Like Me" soars in the beginning — very reminiscent to anything found on Slowdive's Souvlaki — but quickly appears out [...]

As you may recall, I have a sadistic appreciation for the greatest of all mid-performances failures: rockers falling off stage. So, I'm really quite miffed to have let aged punk Godfather Iggy ... Continue reading "Iggy Pop Falls Off Stage at Carnegie Hall, Rock 'n' Roll Dies [Oh the Humility]" >

The inimitable local crooner Jordan Caress and I were discussing the nature of the British Hip Barometer as compared to the American one last night. Our discussion began with our mutual disappoint... Continue reading "According to the UK, Music Is Replacing Religion, and That Makes Liam Gallagher God" >

Check out the slideshows for more photos. After four consecutive days of walking, drinking, walking, mowing down pizza slices while walking, walking, popping pills, walking, walking, walking, dri... Continue reading "SXSW 2010: The Gold Report [Superchunk, The Love Language, Surfer Blood, Roky Erickson, Voivod & More]" >

Or so says this little news item from a local Austin news station whose headline is "Austin and Nashville, each have what the other wants." Maybe there's something to that. After all, some of us w... Continue reading "Trade Ya: Austin Wants Music Industry; Nashville Wants SXSW" >

Fire Zuave Recommended if you like: Of Montreal, The Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel Starving Like a Pack of Wolves... Grand Atlantic This song reminds me of so many bands that I can't grasp one outright. Brit Rock meets mid-90's grunge. Recommended if you like: Swervedriver, Stone Temple Pilots Coast Is Clear - Grand Atlanti... The Mummers [...]

Next week, SXSW will kick off the 2010 festival season, which will reach critical mass in the U.S. with Middle Tennessee's very own Bonnaroo festival in June. Of course, you already know of those... Continue reading "Road Trip to Knoxville: Big Ears Festival 2010" >

According to Rolling Stone, Billy Corgan is "back in the business of making dreams come true," but according to me, he's continuing with his mission to snowball into the strangest and most hairle... Continue reading "Billy Corgan's Open Auditions for 'Smashing Pumpkins' Bassist and Keyboardist" >

"One of those Rascal Flatts boys is jerkin' us around." I'll say! On Thursday night, CSI -- that's the original series and not one of the 14 spin-offs -- will feature Nashville superstars Rascal... Continue reading "Rascal Flatts to Be Featured in Mar. 4's Episode of CSI" >

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. I should've known better than to have ever gotten my hopes up, thinking some twist of fate could stop those convalescent cockroaches of roc... Continue reading "Consider Me Inconsolable: Aerosmith Replace Steven Tyler ... With Steven Tyler" >

This has been quite a week for international coverage of Nashville's local rock scene. On Tuesday we told you about JEFF the Brotherhood's fashionable feature in the pages of Spin. Yesterday we br... Continue reading "Roman Candle Featured in Billboard" >

Remember when Haruch found those videos of Kings of Leon playing shuffleboard (or "pushboard") down at Loser's with The Features? Well, the videos have unfortunately been evicted from the Interwe... Continue reading "Kings of Leon Dote on The Features to NME. Followill: 'I'm Not Just Stroking Their Pole'" >

Today on the Twitter, Thirty Tigers posted some scans of Spin featuring JEFF the Brotherhood, whom the magazine calls part of "a new wave of stylish, boundary-pushing rising stars" who are finding... Continue reading "JEFF the Brotherhood in Spin, Wearin' Clothes and Talkin' Lemmy" >

* While playing a surprise set in New York City's Gramercy Park Hotel on Feb. 14 -- Happy Valentine's Day, NYC -- a switchblade-wielding maniac apparently approached GN'R, presumably with intent ... Continue reading "National Round-Up: Sebastian Bach Prevents Axl Rose's Stabbing, Abbey Road Is for Sale, Cap'n Jazz Reunion & More" >

I know what you've been thinking: "What's that ol' Clem Snide been up to these days?" The answer comes in the streaming-at-NPR form of their seventh album, The Meat of Life. It opens with a song ... Continue reading "New Clem Snide, The Meat of Life, Streaming at NPR" >

For years, people have complained -- rightfully so -- about the lack of music found on MTV. Well, the folks over at Viacom want you to stop bitching. So in an attempt to re-brand the network, MTV... Continue reading "MTV Jettisons 'Music Television' From Logo" >

For starts, I know the Super Bowl was, in Internet years, several ice ages ago, and the Grammys pretty much before I was even born, but several lingering comments this week have started a rattlin... Continue reading "Are Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood Crappy Singers?" >

Sometimes I think it wouldn't be a terrible idea for major record labels and organizations like the RIAA to appoint a Net-savvy 15-year-old to their board of directors. That way, they'd have someo... Continue reading "Warner Doesn't Want You Streaming Their Music for Free Anymore" >

As you may have heard, MP3 blogs are disappearing from the Internets. More specifically, they are disappearing from from the Google-owned Blogger platform, which also includes Blogspot. This story... Continue reading "Has Google Deleted Your MP3 Blog Yet?" >