I think this might be the best Jimmy Fallon musical impersonation yet. Here he does a great Jim Morrison impersonation and waxes about children’s books in the Lizard King’s drunken poetic style.

[Read more →]

Even though most of you have no doubt grown accustomed to hearing Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive” overtop of some ASCII credits, it just got its official video. This new version substitues Sara Quinn of Tegan & Sara fame for GLaDOS’ voice.

[Read more →]

ENS just debuted this new video from Cinci’s The Seedy Seeds. It’s a well-done video with a good idea behind it. Can’t wait to catch them the next time they come through Lexington!

[Read more →]

Lexington, you made me proud on Friday. We got a rare treat — a performance from the indie rock supergroup Mister Heavenly — and you turned out in full force to take in the show. Not only that, but everyone was up front and enthusiastic for the entire show. And that part’s not hard to [...]

[Read more →]

It’s a good thing for anyone entering my contest to win a YANP tshirt that I’m picking winners at random. If I was choosing based on the best band submitted, it’d be pretty hard to beat Tom’s suggestion of the Lumineers’ song “Ho Hey.” MP3: The Lumineers – Ho Hey (live) Unless their web site [...]

[Read more →]

Passion Pit were no doubt the stars of the night, but yesterday’s opening night of PRHBTN was full of great art from local talent. The show runs daily 5pm-9pm until Nov 16. More after the break

[Read more →]

MP3: A Place to Bury Strangers – So Far Away I’d always been a passive fan of APTBS until their last record landed in my lap. That one is just a monster that I couldn’t ignore. Based on this first listen to Onwards to the Wall, it sounds like they’re moving 1/100th the way toward [...]

[Read more →]

While I was watching Beirut at the Kentucky Theater I hit a little milestone. After running this site for juuust under seven years, I hit 10 million hits. While I know that’s about a month of hits for Pitchfork, it’s still a nice, round number that makes me feel good. So to celebrate that (and [...]

[Read more →]

Everyone seems so excited for “Nigel Tufnel Day” that I figured it’d be a good enough reason to share this video of Spinal Tap playing “Big Bottom” with just about every bassist at Live Earth.

[Read more →]