Here’s the winner of They Might Be Giants’ contest for a fan-made video for their song “Can’t Keep Johnny Down.” Be sure to watch it until the last second for one last laugh!

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“HR”, the front man of pioneering punk legends Bad Brains, will be at Cosmic Charlie’s Wednesday, July 27 at 10:00 p.m. Also playing is Ando Ehlers, on the accordion with his own brand of music, “death polka”. This show is going to be all about some loose vibes, so come out and enjoy and I’ll see you there. [...]

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Unlike other americana acts that I enjoy, I doubt I could ever get tired of seeing Neko Case live. I’ve only seen her a couple of times, but it seems there are no diminishing returns on her show. Her show at Pitchfork wasn’t the flashiest or most powerful set of the festival, but it was [...]

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The Beastie Boys have some insanely great, absolutely classic music videos out there — the zany “Body Movin,” the underrated “Shadrach” and influential “Sabotage” among them — but “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” is up there with some of the best. See the B Boys and Santi get all GI Joe on [...]

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Even though Street Gnar is spending some time in NYC, this one-man (“plus whoever”) project is Kentucky proud true and true. Recorded last fall in a 3rd story apartment on Maxwell Street and mostly relegated to a relatively quiet and modest Internet presence since then, “Poking the World with a Stick” is among the most [...]

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I expected Guided By Voices’ set to be a drunken, but nostalgicly great, mess. It was a bit of that, but mostly just a powerful set by a classic act that I never expected to see live. They group were so fierce in 2011 that it made me wonder how incredible it would’ve been to [...]

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Word Magazine has a great list up of 40 defining sounds that shaped music in the past century. It’s surprisingly technical and wonderfully complete, complete with an example of a song that popularized the technique. 40 Noises That Built Pop

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I think that with very little change, Thurston Moore’s set could have been a perfect midday festival set. The laid back, acoustic songs would have been great in the hot sun if not for one needless thing. Nearly every song had a two-plus-minute minor-key acoustic instrumental section as the introduction. It was fine for one [...]

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Incredible, incredible show. This was my first time catching Tune-Yards live, but I know it won’t be my last. After a performance like this, you can’t help but hunger for your next chance to experience it again. If Merrill was a sports team, I’d have season tickets. I understand now why Owen Pallett said that [...]

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