Colin McLaughlin
Wrote 564 posts and photographed 105 shows, 2009–2012.
- Concerts 122
- Fifty-word reviews 1
- Articles 5
- Video picks 88
- News 414
Photos
2009 394
Concerts
- The Flaming Lips
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + The Depreciation Guild
- Arctic Monkeys + The Like
- Black Francis + Bobby Bare Jr + Moondoggies
- Fucked Up + Mariachi el Bronx + The Bronx
- Portugal. The Man + Youth Group
- Modest Mouse + Love as Laughter + Mimicking Birds
- Pearl Jam + Ben Harper & Relentless 7
- Monsters Of Folk
- Spiral Stairs + Bob Mould
- Scion Garagefest
- Pretty Lights + Chicharones + DJ Rootz
- Yo La Tengo + Jackie-O Motherfucker
- The Pixies + Rain Machine
- Girls + Dominant Legs
- Wolfmother + Heartless Bastards + Thenewno2
- Friendly Fires + The xx + Holly Miranda
- The Ben Darwish Group + The Sam Howard Band
Video picks
- David Byrne "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
- Jay-Z x Rhapsody: All Albums Covered
- Arcade Fire's Guide To Crowd Control
- St. Vincent thinks the "Marrow" is the good part too
- Wilco: Ashes Of American Flags
- Fever Ray's "Seven"
- They Might Be Giants Knows What Kids Like
- Grizzly Bear's "While You Wait For The Others"
- Mick Boogie x Peter Bjorn & John: Stay This Way (Remix)
- Dillinger Escape Plan's Singer Is Rowdy
- Beatles Rock Band Outro
- Lupe & Jill Scott Take You Back Into A Daydream
- Thom Yorke: "The Hollow Earth"
- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: "Higher Than The Stars"
- Monsters Of Folk: "Say Please"
- Modest Mouse: "3rd Planet" (Live From Austin City Limits)
- Rick Rubin and Russel Simmons Reminisce
- Bon Iver Gives A Spooky Good Performance
- Sufjan's New Song: "There's Too Much Love"
- Dirty Projectors' New Song: "When The World Comes To An End"
- Girls: "Lust For Life" video
- Vedder Guests With Kings Of Leon at ACL 2009
- Q-Tip and Norah Jones think "Life Is Better" when they're together
- Pretty Lights At Red Rocks
- Basement Jaxx ft. Kelis: "Scars"
- Blitzen Trapper's "Black River Killer"
- Community Rap
- Lily Allen's "Who'd Have Known"
- NYU student Lets The Beat Build
- Flight Of The Conchord's "Carol Brown"
- The Papercuts "Future Primitive" (Yours Truly Session)
- Raheem DeVaughn ft. Ludacris "Bulletproof"
- Japandroids: "The Boys Are Leaving Town"
- Pixies playing "La La Love You" on Doolittle Tour
- Brother Ali: Live in Paris
- Basement Jaxx: "My Turn ft. Lightspeed Champion"
- Soaring version of The Swell Season's "Low Rising"
- Flashback: Glen Hansard sings "Say It To Me Now"
- Pearl Jam on Halloween: Whip It Good
- Jay-Z joins U2 in Berlin: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
- Lil Wayne's documentary trailer
- New Freestyle app for Iphone
- Surfer Blood unplugged
- Flashback: Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"
- Kyp Malone wants to "Give Blood"
- Neko Case's "Red Tide" live on Fallon
- Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
- Fever Ray: "Keep The Streets Empty For Me" (live)
- Official Fever Ray "Keep The Streets Empty For Me" video
- Twitterers pick Pixies song for Fallon performance
- The Avett Brothers' "I and Love and You"
- Souls of Mischief paint a mural of rhyme: "proper aim"
- A tender moment for Sufjan: "John Wayne Gacy, Jr" live
- Best Mattress Commercial Ever? No, it's Oren Lavie's "Her Morning Elegance"
- Fuck Buttons show their "Rough Steez" on YoursTruly
- Dope "freestyle" over "Renegade" beat
- 8 mins and 29 seconds of Eminem and Kon Artis freestylin'
- Junior Boys get freaky for "Bits and Pieces" video
- Hot Chip spins right round, round, round in "One Life Stand" video
- First bit of the box-set: White Stripes play "Let's Shake Hands" in Canada.
- Edge and Bono do "Stay (Faraway, So Close) on Elvis Costello's Spectacle
- Beastie Boys on public access in 1984
- 33 mins of Pixies in this promo for the Minotaur box-set
- Trailer for new White Stripes movie
- School of Rock kids playing Radiohead's "These Are My Twisted Words"
- Glen Hansard & Bono busking for homeless charity on Christmas Eve
News
- Wild Things Unite! New Karen O and The Kids track!
- The First Big Bang of NIN's Farewell Tour
- Kid Cudi's New Album Cover and Tracklist
- NPR beams out Passion Pit show
- N.A.S.A.'s Mind Bending Video for "Whachadoin?"
- The Road To Blueprint 3
- White Denim To Melt Faces
- J. Tillman's New Song: "Though I Have Wronged You"
- Fun Fun Fun Fest Line Up
- Cameron Crowe Helms Pearl Jam "Fixer" Video
- Robin Guthrie's "Some Sort of Paradise"
- Raekwon ft Lyfe Jennings: "Catalina"
- The Big Pink to hit the big, bad road
- Drake, Lil' Wayne, Kanye and Eminem Slay Track For Lebron
- Ryan Adams: Still A Geek, Still Pretty Awesome
- New Elliott Smith song appears!
- Taken By Trees prove that Merriweather Post Pavilion is inescapable this year
- Outside Lands Festival is streaming right now!
- Noel Gallagher says no more
- Wale: Live In D.C. (video)
- New Wild Beasts record wants to meet you
- A Taste Of The New Kid Cudi Record
- Q-Tip's Lost Album Finally Let Out To Play
- A.A. Bondy: "I Can See The Pines Are Dancing"
- Spoon cover Sam Cooke
- The xx is the band, "Basic Space" is the video
- LCD Soundsystem To Return In 2010
- Streaming: New Yo La Tengo album
- The xx make a mix
- New Air: "Sing Sang Sung"
- Comments on the MP3 age with Jonny Greenwood
- Sunset Rubdown Bassist Struck By Lightning
- Felt's New Girl....Rosie Perez
- Blind Man's Colour pass the acid test (vid)
- Nutrition On Tape: Free EP
- Beck's Record Club: Leonard Cohen edition (vid)
- Health's Hedonistic Tendencies
- Wale: "Ice and Rain"
- Re-envisioning "Two Weeks"
- Air: "Sing Sang Sung" (Vid)
- The Swell Season Back With New Album, Tour
- Kurt Vile's "Hunchback"
- Neil Young To Unearth Live Album From '92
- Ryan Adams Couldn't Stay Away
- Los Campesinos!: "The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future"
- Seattle Readers: Free Ticket Giveaway for Bad Veins/Division Day Show Tonight!
- Courtney Love: Back By Popular Demand?
- Billy Corgan Wants Your Soul...Conversations
- Sunset Rubdown has a new video
- Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic Weigh In On Kurt Avatar
- Nine Inch Nails Play Final Show
- Lil Wayne gets Behind The Music treatment
- You Can Be Daft Punk
- Kanye Bum Rushes The Show
- New Death Cab Song: "Meet Me At The Equinox"
- New Yellow Submarine movie to take flight
- Washed Out: "Feel It All Around (Toro Y Moi Remix)"
- Kid Cudi's New Album Streaming In Full
- Kanye Back In Human Mode
- Vampire Weekend to kill winter haze
- Big Pink Remix Lily Allen's "22"
- Pavement Are Reuniting!
- Flaming Lips to Utilize Colbert's Stranglehold On America's Youth
- Smashing Pumpkins To Give Away 44 Songs
- Q-Tip: "Barely In Love" (vid)
- Chatting with Trent Reznor
- Flaming Lips + Colbert (vids)
- Tom Waits won't make you wait any longer for a new live album
- More Copyright Woes For Coldplay
- Leonard Cohen Collapses On Stage
- Los Campesinos! and the ol' switcheroo
- Fucked Up Snag Polaris Prize
- Starfucker turn name change into a popularity contest
- New Flaming Lips Video: "I Can Be A Frog"
- Ryan Adams Denies Courtney Love's Allegations
- K'naan & J.Period Messengers Mixtape
- Forever Video
- Bon Iver going on hiatus
- Echo & The Bunnymen Going Out On Tour
- Portugal. The Man Out There Busking
- Arctic Monkeys: "Cornerstone" (vid)
- Phish's second Halloween treat: An unplugged Set
- Big Boi Drops New Song On Fans
- Austin City Limits Schedule Announced (the show)
- John Mayer Wonders Why Everybody Can't Get Stoned
- The Killers Out To Prove Rock Star Status
- Ezra's Take On Vampire Weekend's New Album
- Method Man + Raekwon + Ghostface Killah = New Album
- Sam Cooke to get a movie
- Black Lips' Singer and Wavves singer scrap
- Thom Yorke to play LA with new band
- The xx remix Florence & The Machine Song
- New Burial song "Fostercare"
- Springsteen Is Your Shepherd and He Knows What You Want
- Bebel Gilberto releases new album
- DMX is going to fight in the octagon
- Volcano Choir: "Island Is" (vid)
- Concept for Kanye and Lady Gaga's Fame Kills Tour
- New Music Documentary On The Snake The Cross The Crown
- Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Instore Vids
- Austin City Limits Festival is streaming on Hulu this weekend
- Remastered Nirvana Song Live From 1990
- Producer's take on Cudi's New Record
- Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack is streaming
- New Grizzly Bear x Beach House song (vid)
- Battles testing out 3 new songs live
- Saul Williams Tour Dates
- New Thom Yorke Songs: Live In LA
- The Big Pink made you a mixtape
- Raphael Saadiq Shows His 60's Stroll (Vid)
- Vampire Weekend Countdown Is Over!
- Springsteen, Giants Stadium, Night One, Born To Run. Download.
- Springsteen, Giants Stadium, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Download.
- Springsteen, Giants Stadium, Night Three, Born In The USA, Download.
- Frightened Rabbit and their two new songs
- Jay Reatard's Band Says Adios Muchacho
- Public Enemy needs money from the public
- Janelle Monae "Come Alive (War Of The Roses)
- Modest Mouse's new vid for "The Whale Song"
- New Radiohead album might happen after all
- Beulah's Miles Kurosky on the solo tip in 2010
- New Michael Jackson song on Monday
- Pixies selling copies of Doolittle Live
- Dead Man's Bones new vid: "Dead Hearts"
- Animal Collective EP out Dec. 8th
- Thom Yorke: Live on 10/5 (mp3s)
- Trailer for new Killers DVD
- M.I.A.'s advice for Obama and his Peace Prize
- "This Is It": The New Michael Jackson Song
- NPR is streaming The Gossip live
- Cunninlynguists w/ E-40 & Evidence: "Running Wild" (mp3)
- White Rabbits grab bag (vids and audio)
- Jim Morrison's Ghost Pic
- Hear A Smidgen Of Tom Waits' New Live CD
- Flaming Lips and their one day only store
- Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor Wrote A Graphic Novel
- Big Boi with another soul groove: "Shine Blockas"
- 2 albums to listen to: New Swell Season and Ben Gibbard/Jay Farrar project
- More Flaming Lips: This Time, Live On Conan
- New Girls Vid for "Laura"
- Florence + the Machine "You've Got The Love" (vid)
- Burial and Flying Lotus Collabo: "Untitled"
- 2 Rare Songs For Membership In Jack White's Vault
- Clipse, Rick Ross, "I'm Good" (Remix)
- Kanye West and Spike Jonze made a movie
- Flaming Lips perform songs (including "Eclipse" by Pink Floyd) and are interviewed (vid)
- Beach House's Next Record Out In January
- Memory Tapes make a track fit for October
- U2 concert to stream on YouTube
- Stream 2 new albums: Phoenix Remix disc and new Devendra Banhart cd
- Yeasayer's got a new album coming out
- Whose Stage? RUN'S STAGE!
- Fucked Up's hard to find tracks are getting a double disc release
- Download a Wilco Concert: 10/9/09 (SBD)
- Your Choice Of 10 Girl Talk concerts to download
- Lil Wayne is going to jail
- Hold Steady frontman to adapt Fargo Rock City (the Chuck Klosterman memoir)
- Nirvana: Live at Reading will premiere on FUSE
- Fever Ray to give out live album in the Guardian tomorrow
- Forever (Remix) with Unknown Chicago Rappers (It's Good!)
- Against Me! raise their 'White Crosses'
- Lil Wayne: "Run This Town" Freestyle
- The Doves doing "Kingdom of Rust" with a choir (vid)
- Jarvis Cocker says Pulp will reunite
- U2 Live: 360 Tour show for you to watch
- Spike Jonze (and friends) made you a mixtape
- Dead Weather's New Live EP
- Mos Def + Black Thought + Eminem in BET Awards Cypher
- Lil Wayne's No Ceilings Mixtape
- John Lennon Bio-Pic Trailer
- Lupe Fiasco Freestyle "All The Way Turnt Up"
- The xx's guitarist is exhausted, might have left group
- Fela Kuti: "Zombie"
- New Spoon Album In January
- "Ambling Alp": First single off Yeasayer's Odd Blood album
- Ween are streaming from the South
- Phish Play 'Exile On Main Street' on Halloween (Download)
- The Frames: live in concert (video and audio)
- Wiz Khalifa: Burn After Rolling (Mixtape)
- New Vampire Weekend song played in LA (vid)
- Monsters Of Folk perform as Kiss (video)
- Birds of Prey: Ramona Falls "I Say Fever"
- Julian Casablancas Wishes It Was Christmas Today
- Clipse vid for I'm Good (Remix)
- New Pretty Lights track: "Sunday School"
- Essential Listening: The Phenomenal Handclap Band's "Baby"
- Sufjan Stevens sheds doubt on more 50 States albums
- Ryan Adams Writes Song With Norah Jones (streaming)
- Passion Pit Remix Max Tundra (mp3) + Passion Pit at Bonnaroo video
- 'Illinoize': Sufjan Stevens gets the mash-up treatment (download)
- Springsteen is coming to NYC with more old albums to play
- The Dutchess & The Duke Tour Dates, Y'all
- New Grizzly Bear Video for "Ready, Able"
- Diplo says M.I.A. is working on new album, details inside
- Can the Brits contact Michael Jackson in the beyond?
- The Pixies are feeling generous; give out free EP
- Pavement is headlining Sasquatch!
- Looks like Jon Brion might have a hand in Of Montreal's next album
- Music Industry's Decline Brought To You By The Makers of 'The Wire'
- Hot Chip goes from dark to light: "Take It In"
- My Morning Jacket's role in American Dad
- Stream the entire Them Crooked Vultures album now
- 'Madvilliany' Follow-up is in the cards and in the works
- Springsteen plays 'The River' live (download)
- Springsteen plays 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle' live (download)
- New Clipse song: "Doorman" (mp3)
- Arcade Fire is recording in New York City!
- NSFW: Flaming Lips Naked Bike Video
- Mixtape asks Who is the best rapper alive? Lil Wayne or Royce Da 5'9''?
- Solange (Beyonce's sister) covers Dirty Projectors
- The xx go from 4 to 3.
- Beck's next cover record by Skip Spence. Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell assisting.
- Dan Deacon on the injured list
- Fantastic version of Tom Petty's "Nightwatchmen," from new super big live set
- RJD2 Tour Dates
- Want to hear some Arctic Monkeys b-sides?
- Lambchop brings the house down (vid)
- Britt Daniel and White Rabbits cover "Instant Karma" (vid)
- Mos Def and The Black Keys make a song together (mp3)
- Passion Pit's new "Little Secrets" video
- First song off new Beach House record: "Norway"
- Complex Magazine's Top 100 Music Videos of the Decade List
- Vampire Weekend rockin' down a deserted alley (vid)
- Interpol is thinking 2010 looks about right for new album
- Bebel Gilberto launches N. American Tour
- Jason Segel guests at Swell Season show (hilarious vid)
- 2 clips of Ween Live From Red Rocks
- The Big Pink cover Beyonce's "Sweet Dreams"
- Springsteen to (finally) release Darkness On The Edge of Town box set
- Spoon Tour Dates
- Solange takes on Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet"
- Lykke Li wonders "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"
- Video from My Morning Jacket's 'American Dad' appearance
- Double shot of Radiohead: Mixtapes and an attempted lashing
- Panda Bear got asked about his next solo record. Panda Bear answered.
- Jim James talks about future plans for MMJ and Monsters of Folk
- Download a Yo La Tengo show: live in Portland (soundboard/audience matrix)
- Muppets and "Bohemian Rhapsody" (vid)
- Ginuwine's "Pony" Deconstructed Through Dubstep (Remix)
- Hear the Fiery Furnaces cover themselves
- Lupe Fiasco's Enemy of The State: A Love Story mixtape (download)
- Sick remix of The xx's "Infinity"
- She & Him will return in the spring with a new album and tour
- Trailer for new Blur reunion doc
- Pete Doherty sings Nazi Anthem during German performance
- Essential Listening: Priors "What You Need (Hey Champ Remix)"
- King Midas Sound (includes The Bug) make a mix
- 2 new tracks: 1 Spoon, 1 Hot Chip
- Eminem gets candid about addiction, Relapse 2 and more in Complex interview
- The Swell Season perform for Daytrotter
- Chiddy Bang's "The Swelly Express" Mixtape (download)
- Flying Lotus says, "here's all my Lil Wayne remixes"
- Fact: New Arcade Fire this spring!!!
- Pearl Jam on Austin City Limits (Full Performance vid)
- New Kid Cudi Freestyle "Cudderisback" (mp3)
- Phoenix take a turn on the Take Away Show (vids)
- Essential Listening: Cymbals Eat Guitars' "And The Hazy Sea"
- Dead man walking: Mariachi El Bronx's "Holy"
- NSFW: Immortal Technique's award-winning "Dance With The Devil" vid
- Full Brother Ali concert from the Fresh Air Tour (download)
- Billy Corgan starts the 44 song cycle with "A Song For A Son"
- Set Your Own Price For Old Girl Talk albums
- A Clipse Greatest Hits Mixtape of Sorts (download)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars about to chew up the road
- Don't Move Here: Inside The Portland Music Scene (2 episodes)
- Liars release new track "Scissor" from upcoming Sisterworld record
- Kid Cudi's new video for "Pursuit of Happiness"
- Mos Def's video for "Supermagic"
- Blakroc on Letterman: "Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)"
- Dirty Projectors live in NY with help from David Byrne and the Roots (download)
- Note: Jay Reatard will fight back when attacked on stage
- The Swell Season can't shake the little black rain cloud in "Low Rising" vid
- New Portishead: "Chase The Tear"
- BlakRoc on Fallon: "Dollaz & Sense"/"Tellin' Me Things"
- The White Stripes are releasing a mammoth box set
- Yo La Tengo: Live at Moog
- New Yeasayer track: "I Remember"
- Kid Cudi previews 2 new songs in the first of three concert vids (over 30 mins of footage)
- Dãm-Funk's "Mirrors" is going to change the color of your mood ring
- Bradford Cox posts an unreleased Deerhunter album to his blog
- Slum Village's Elzhi drops new mixtape: "The Leftovers UnMixedtape"
- Holly Miranda channels Jeff Buckley on "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" cover (vid)
- Present # 1: Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Engineer Demos
- Feb thru May = Yeasayer's world tour
- Present #2: Radiohead soundboard: Live in Berlin 7/4/00
- Kill Rock Stars is giving away a free, unreleased Elliott Smith song: "Cecilia/Amanda"
- The Roots give out free EP: "Sandwiches"
- Colbert and Alicia Keys duet on "Empire State of Mind (Part II)
- La Roux: "Bulletproof (Gashups Filthy Dubstep Remix)"
- Present # 3: Ryan Adams soundboard: Live in NY 10/2/00
- Have Yourself A Wicked Hip-Hop Christmas with djBC and Black Element
- Kanye Talks Spike Jonze, in all CAPS of course
- Present # 4: D'Angelo - Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival
- We are Wolves' "Holding Hands"
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros bring their communal vibe straight to your eyeballs (vids)
- Mos Def's "24 Hr Karate School"
- Present # 5: Arcade Fire soundboard: 9.29.05
- Radiohead is going into the studio next month!!!
- Arctic Monkeys' 'Humbug' webcast (vid)
- Present # 6: Sufjan Stevens soundboard - Live at the Crystal Ballroom 2006
- Julian Casablancas sings "I Wish It Was Christmas Today" live on Late Night
- A Heads Up/Reminder: The Flaming Lips' 'Dark Side of The Moon' cover album is out today
- Present # 7: Spoon show - Live at the Fillmore 9.22.08
- Present # 8: The 'Sky High' Mixtape - Remixing Kanye West
- The Final Present (#9): Another Radiohead soundboard - Live at Lollapalooza 08
- Christmas Mixtape from the Cool Kids (download)
- 10 years of Flying Lotus boiled down into a mixtape (download)
- Trent Reznor says new NIN material is coming next year
- Rising Star: Holly Miranda LP drops in Feb.
- A new Tom Waits album will, most likely, come out in 2010
2010 181
Concerts
- White Denim + Brazos
- St. Vincent + Wildbirds and Peacedrums
- Four Tet + Nathan Fake
- The Cool Kids + PAC DIV
- Mos Def + Hot 8 Brass Band + Mic Crenshaw
- Yeasayer + Sleigh Bells
- tUnE-yArDs + Buke & Gass
- Liars + Fol Chen + Tu Fawning
- The Antlers + Phantogram
- Los Campesinos! + The Signals
- Toots and the Maytals + Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars + Jujuba
- Delorean + Teengirl Fantasy
- Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings + The Heavy
- Cage + Timmy Wiggins + Hate Your Guts
- Secret Cities + Housefire + Wishyunu
- Portland Cello Project
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti + Magic Kids + Puro Instinct
- The New Pornographers + The Dodos + Imaad Wasif
- Silversun Pickups + Against Me! + Henry Clay People
- The Swell Season + Black Francis
- The Avett Brothers + Langhorne Slim
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros + Lulacruza
- Washed Out + Phantogram + Ra Ra Riot
- Major Lazer + Big Freedia + Deelay Ceelay + Rude Dudes
- Black Lips + Surfer Blood + Male Bonding
- Man Man + Morning Teleportation
- Smashing Pumpkins
- The National + The Walkmen + The Helio Sequence + Talkdemonic
- The Very Best + Warpaint + Zola Jesus
- Local Natives + The Love Language + The Union Line
- Dirty Projectors + Dominique Young Unique
- Arcade Fire
- Jamie Lidell + Zeus
- Monotonix + Ty Segall + O Bruxo
- The Dandy Warhols + Swoon 23 + Sugarboom
- M.I.A + Rye Rye
- The Morning Benders + Twin Sister
- Deer Tick + J. Roddy Walston + Quick and Easy Boys
- Mumford & Sons + Mt. Desolation + King Charles
- Sufjan Stevens + DM Stith
- The Bloody Beetroots
- Les Savy Fav + Reporter
- Matthew Dear + Small Black + Class Actress + Young Prisms
- Free Energy + Hollerado + Brainstorm
- Robyn + Maluca
- GWAR + The Casualties + Infernaeon + Mobile Deathcamp
- The Frames + Tim Easton
- John Butler Trio + Mat McHugh
- The Black Crowes
- The Black Keys + Sleigh Bells + Morning Teleportation
- Leonard Cohen
- The Grouch + Brother Ali + Eligh + Los Rakas
- The Dandy Warhols + Blue Giant
- Lissie + Ezza Rose
Video picks
- Big Boi's city behind him in "Shine Blockas" vid
- Mos Def & Talib takes us back with "History" video
- A Place to Bury Strangers bury pop, deep inside your head with "Keep Slipping Away"
- Clipse bring "Grindin" to Jimmy Fallon in online exclusive
- Minotaur angst in new RJD2 video for "Let There Be Horns"
- Justin Timberlake beatboxes for Brother Ali
- Everyone thinks that this is a new M.I.A. video
- Dan Deacon's batty new video for "Woof, Woof"
- Jamie Lidell hands over unreleased video: "Rope of Sand"
- Spoon rock "Written In Reverse" on Conan's final week
- Black Lips bring the garage to Wieden + Kennedy
- Coco's Farewell: Conan, Beck, Billy Gibbons, Ben Harper, etc rock "Freebird"
- Hulu is running the Pixies documentary: loudQUIETloud (vid)
- Vedder covers the Boss for Haiti
- Another version of Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead"
- Michel Gondry directs Mia Doi Todd's "Open Your Heart"
- In one ear and the other: Pablo's "Learn A Lesson"
- Spoon and Danny Clinch collaborate on "Written In Reverse" vid
- Wilco cover Neil Young in Portland. "Broken Arrow!"
- John Mayer breaks down in Nashville. Breaks down=starts crying.
- I find "Shelter" in El Perro Del Mar's cover
- Bat For Lashes does the string thing on Radiohead cover
News
- New Vampire Weekend record streaming on Myspace
- Reflection Eternal mixtape - The Re: Union (download)
- Soundgarden reunite
- An Evening with Wilco: Tour Dates for the Spring
- Michael Cera and Islands pretend that drugs are bad: "No, You Don't" vid
- 3 new videos from Kanye's 'Storytellers' performance
- Antony shows that no harm came to his cover of "Here Comes The Sun"
- The Knife go operatic: "Colouring The Pigeons" (mp3)
- Mash-Up Alert: White Stripes layered over a gang of rappers (download)
- Dâm-Funk's New Years Eve show (streaming)
- Liars are going out on tour
- Want to hear The Roots, Mos Def and Brother Ali performing together? (mp3s)
- Of Montreal are going out on the road again...hide your children!
- Video for Animal Collective's MPP warhorse, "Brothersport"
- Mixtape of The Roots backing 'Late Night' performers
- Josh Rouse's Takeaway Show (vid)
- MTV forgot that they don't make music programming and cooked up an Unplugged with Vampire Weekend
- Free Dirty Projectors' single
- Listen to the new Spoon record right now! (streaming)
- New M.I.A. album this summer (with details)
- Tons of Tour Dates! Spoon. Beach House. The Thermals.
- MORE tour dates: Alec Ounsworth. Shout Out Louds.
- Can't Stop The Tour Dates: Passion Pit and Mayer Hawthorne are touring together!
- New Bun B track: "No Mix Tape"
- Joanna Newsom has a new album and a new tour.
- Try this on: Theophilus London's "Humdrum Town"
- Your chance to hear Owen ("Final Fantasy") Pallett's new record, 'Heartland' (streaming)
- Jay Reatard has died.
- Green Screen Party: The Very Best ft. Ezra Koenig's "Warm Heart of Africa"
- Will Wu-Tang bring the ruckus on new compilation CD?
- Wish my terrace sounded like this: El Perro Del Mar and Lykke Li sing "Change of Heart"
- Mos Def & K'Naan's full Austin City Limits performance
- Libertines might be coming back in 2011
- Arcade Fire's Régine Chassagne writes editorial about Haiti
- Jay Z, Muse, and Gorillaz headline Coachella (full list inside)
- Essential Listening: Holly Miranda's "Joints"
- Jay Electronica's "Exhibit C"
- Hear the new Beach House album before it comes out
- Copyright Criminals: a PBS documentary on sampling in hip hop (vids)
- New Four Tet album is streaming in full
- Pretty Lights show us how they rolled into 2010 (mp3)
- 2 treats: New Raekwon, Ghostface and Meth song "Our Dreams" (mp3) and Beatles vs. Wu-Tang mixtape
- The New Pornographers' new album: Together
- The keyboardist for Hold Steady quits
- Matthew Dear Remix of The xx's VCR (mp3)
- New She & Him song "In the Sun" (link) + tour dates
- A Dungeon Family exposé: "The Untold Story..."
- Tour Dates for anyone that wants to get down: Major Lazer hits the road.
- A donation to Haiti gets you two Wilco shows
- The National returns with a new album and tour
- Pharrell on Pharrell, the music industry and illegal downloads (MIDEM interview)
- Cudi gets baked, Cudi mouths raps
- Keith Richards has stopped drinking
- Phoenix take on a Dylan deep cut: "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (mp3)
- Solange and Of Montreal revive the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" (vid)
- A Day at the Opera: Stream the new Knife album right now!
- Mos Def takes the Godfather Theme, a bunch of firework sounds and creates "The Tournament" (mp3)
- Surfer Blood loves manatees and street sprints in underwear: "Swim" video
- Erykah Badu might leak her new album today
- New Hendrix track surfaces ("Valleys of Neptune"), album to follow
- Essential Listening: Wakey! Wakey! "Twenty Two"
- My Morning Jacket and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are about to tackle the SE
- Melophobe finds the audio for Radiohead's Haitian Benefit (download)
- Major Lazer take a bad song and make it a good one: remixing Beyonce's "Halo" (mp3)
- Bun B drops a new, oddly titled mixtape: 'No Mixtape' (download)
- Some words for you on Broken Social Scene's upcoming album
- Girls and Dum Dum Girls hit the road, jack
- Flaming Lips are bringing 'Dark Side Of The Moon' to Bonnaroo
- "Day N Nite" producer leaks old Kid Cudi song: "Highs N Lows" (mp3)
- The Strokes actually ARE going to make another record
- Song Title of the Year? Prof & St. Paul Slim's video for "Horses In The Ghetto"
- Grab Kid Cudi's Demo Tape (download)
- The first, new track from Jamie Lidell's new album: "Compass"
- LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy to debut first film score
- Bloggers beware, Google is coming after ya
- John Mayer is about to get swallowed up in public outrage
- St. Vincent becomes 'Eclectic': "The Strangers" (vid)
- Essential Listening: Local Natives' Gorilla Manor (Streaming)
- Janelle Monae, Big Boi, and touches of Motown. She calls it "Tightrope"
- Wayne Coyne's Open House (pics)
- POST JACK! Decemberists Covers Archive
- Sasquatch! announces best line-up of the year!
- Local Natives Tour Dates
- The Wax Fingers drop us a line from the studio: "Sticky Bees" (mp3)
- Barbara's cover of Kid Cudi's 'Pursuit of Happiness' (mp3)
- Kanye wants to be back in your life. "Coldest Winter" video.
- Lupe Fiasco breaks my heart. Portland-less tour dates inside.
- Jeff Buckley fans get a treat from KCRW (streaming)
- Wake Up "Sleepyhead," Ellie Goulding's cover rocks!
- Kanye starts new blog!
- New Pretty Lights song link, EP to follow
- Getting Lawrence Arabia's "Apple Pie Bed" Out of Your Head...Mission Impossible
- GQ, Pavement, and Chuck Klosterman. Oh My!
- Kid Cudi's "Dat New New" gets a Viking Remix (mp3)
- 3 songs off Lupe's new record unveiled in Claremont, CA
- As promised, Pretty Lights drop new EP
- Elijah Wood and Apples In Stereo make a video
- Come discover Conductive Alliance and their "Dark Flowers" (mp3)
- WHY? tour dates for those that be lookin'
- MFNW 2010 line-up comes swinging into the world
- Prepare your repeat button: Lupe Fiasco's "Go To Sleep"
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Concerts
- The Head and The Heart + Kelli Schaefer + Bryan John Appleby
- Hurtbird + Mosley Wotta + Empty Space Orchestra
- The Thermals + Guidance Counselor + Wampire
- The Radio Dept. + Young Prisms
- Murder By Death + The Builders and the Butchers
- Yo La Tengo + The Urinals
- Crystal Castles + Suuns
- Girl Talk + Max Tundra + Junk Culture
- Warpaint + PVT + Family Band
- Destroyer + The War on Drugs
- Ice Cube + Luck-One + Erok and Mayo
- Lauryn Hill + Hot 8 Brass Band
- The Joy Formidable + The Lonely Forest
- Francis and the Lights + Oh Land
- Rusko + Doorly + Sir Kutz
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + Catwalk
- Fleet Foxes + The Cave Singers
- Atmosphere + Blueprint + Grieves + Budo
- The Kills + Cold Cave
- Man Man + Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
- Yeasayer + Smith Westerns + Hush Hush
- Gayngs + White Hinterland
- Agnes Obel
- Portland Cello Project
- Yuck + Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Beirut + James Dean Kindle
- Hall & Oates
- The Kills + Eleanor Friedberger + Mini Mansions
- Butthole Surfers + Thrones + Dirty Ghosts
- Macklemore
- Shabazz Palaces + TxE
- Explosions in the Sky + The Antlers + Typhoon
- Big Freedia
- St. Vincent + Cate LeBon
- Portishead + Thought Forms
- The War on Drugs + Purling Hiss + Carter Tanton
- Scattered Trees + Lloyd Mitchell Canyon
- Holy Ghost! + Jessica 6
- M83 + Active Child