Archive for the ‘Not News’ Category
My Favorite Sneaky Spy Song
By Rube Ambler
Rachael Maddux of Paste recently offered up a list of Sneaky Spy Songs. It’s a good list based on song titles and band names but it left off my all time favorite sneaky spy song. Though in fairness, my selection has a lot more to do with the video than the name of [...]
Farewell Jay Reatard
The past 30 days have delivered a terrible string of musical losses. Memphis garage-rocker Jay Reatard was found dead in his home on Wednesday.
Jay’s punk antics often masked what was at the core a great sense of melody and reflective songwriting. This is a track that was released on a Matador sampler in the spring [...]
Recent (sorta) News
Read Chad Radford’s feature about the original A-Lister, Bernadette Seacrest
R.I.P. Willie Mitchell, the man who discovered Al Green.
Lady GaGa to star in her own comic book available on free comic book day
Vampire Weekend’s Contra is streaming here.
Prefix Mag reports that Kanye West thinks he’s Maya Angelou.
Many great free legal downloadable live performances by Vic Chesnutt [...]
Download Dead Confederate’s New EP
Athens’ Dead Confederate have released their new EP, Dirty Ammo, in a variation on the pay what you like format.
The EP consists of seven songs recorded live at the EARL in May 2009 – one of our favorite shows of the year. It includes two covers: “Smoking a Mirror” by Officer May and “Roman [...]
Empire State of Mind – Colbert Style
Okay, first, let us say that we love Alicia Keys and the original recording of this song, with Jay-Z, was already one of our favorite songs of the year. (Yes, if we get to that list it will be on there.) But is this is hilarious. You don’t need to spend much time in [...]
