Hey everybody -
Go buy Radiohead’s new album ‘In Rainbows’. It’s only available from their site and they’re letting you decide how much you want to pay for it.
So pay something fair. Maybe this kind of thing will help kill off the RIAA, if it proves successful and it doesn’t turn out that we’re [...]

Oh man, I was so ready to get all up in arms today. My arms were all set, seriously. It’s because of the fact that the R.I.A.A. – an organization whose main goal, it seems, is to suck our financial resources dry and then return to Planet Bigwig and laugh until the apocalypse [...]

Finished up ‘The Third Half’ and sent it off to the Zoetrope contest. A lot changed in the last couple of days, very much for the better. Still, I can’t bear the thought of giving it to someone to read right now as, inevitably, they will find some glaring error and tell me, [...]

Screen Gems and Maverick (you know, Madonna?) will be re-imagine-making the 1987 movie The Stepfather. For those who haven’t seen ‘The Stepfather’, you’re missing out on a pretty terrific cheeseball horror movie. The opening is a great lesson in reveals. But there’s nothing cheesy about Terry O’Quinn’s performance. If all you’ve [...]

Though I feel like I’m the last person to find out, very cool band and kinda sorta former roommates of mine Army of Me have signed to Atlantic records. Go listen to their songs and watch their videos and ask aloud “You mean they only now just signed?”
Congrats to AoM!

The Pixies are, for me, the standard by which all other bands are judged. (Well, it’s them and early They Might Be Giants. The difference is that They Might Be Giants didn’t stop after their fifth album, though I increasingly wish they had. And me saying that is really saying something). Seeing them last Tuesday [...]

The Pixies’ contributions to the alternative rock canon are sacred texts, the alpha cell of a paisley-flecked v23 flowchart that, down various impeccably typeset branches, might lead to Nirvana, to the Breeders, to Throwing Muses, Guided By Voices, Modest Mouse, Trail of Dead, or Enon.
There’s good news in that there link.

Despite Black’s hesitation, he does admit that the Pixies “do get together and have private jams together, but not for public consumption.”
Until now?