08/06/10 What's Your Reaction? With the midterms just over the horizon, our jobs are becoming a lot easier. Each day provides us with a fresh batch of lawmakers face-planting as they bend over backwards to appease their constituents.
08/05/10 Ty Pennington, you can put your toolbox down and step away from the hair gel because there's a new home improvement player on the block who's sure to steal all your gigs.
08/04/10 DEPEW,NY-Tops Friendly Markets is certainly tops with two of Western New York's latest millionaires. The winning tickets for Kelly Murphy of Delavan in Cattaraugus County and Loreen Brigman of Sloan were each purchased at local Tops markets.
08/04/10 WHAT: Outside Lands Music and Art Festival WHEN: August 14-15 WHERE: San Francisco, CA WHO: The Strokes, Phoenix, My Morning Jacket, Cat Power, Gogol Bordello, Janelle Monae , Nas and Damian Marley, Chromeo , Empire of the Sun, Al Green, Wild Beasts, Kings of Leon, Tokyo Police Club, Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley WHAT: Mile High Music Festival WHEN: August 14-15 WHERE: Denver, CO WHO: Phoenix ...
08/04/10 Spoon plays rock music so stark and minimal that they really don't need any more musicians onstage. But when the band stopped by "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" last night to play the Transference track "Nobody Gets Me But You", Roots drummer/bandleader ? uestlove and bassist Owen Biddle helped out, adding slight rhythmic accents to an already tightly wound song. The result is a pretty ...
08/03/10 Photo by Sanchez and Kitahara "@ lcdsoundsystem Have u heard from that fat, naked PCP guy that attacked you at Bonnaroo? I want to find him and see if he's ok" -- Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is one of the most reliable and entertaining quote machines in all of popular music. And now he's on Twitter . (Still waiting on LCD's response, btw... )
08/03/10 Artist: Wild Beasts Release: "We Still Got the Taste Dancin' on Our Tongues" 10" Release Date: Available now digitally; August 10 (vinyl) Label: Domino
08/02/10 [Updated: 6:33 P.M.] NEWS: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 's AVEY TARE to Release First Solo Album Down There drops on October 26. [ Spinner ] LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Tour with HOT CHIP , SLEIGH BELLS Dance music's holy trinity hit the road in October. Get details here! [ SPIN ] T.I. and Longtime Girlfriend Marry in Three Different Cities T.I. and Tiny celebrated their vows in Miami, Atlanta and Las Vegas over the ...
08/02/10 Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. Wilson, NY (WKBW-TV) The Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating a plane crash that sent a group of skydivers to the hospital Sunday.
08/02/10 One person remained hospitalized Monday following the crash of a six-seat skydiving plane just after takeoff from an upstate New York airfield.
07/30/10 Adam Robb/For The Jersey JournalPaul Kermizian, owner of Brooklyn gaming bars the Gutter and Barcade, will be opening a Barcade on Newark Avenue in Jersey City soon. The bar/restaurant will have 1970s- and 1980s-era video games for patrons to play....
07/28/10 IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - 07/29/10) - RealtyTrac ( www.realtytrac.com ), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its Midyear 2010 Metropolitan Foreclosure Market Report, which shows 154 of the 206 U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of 200,000 or more posted year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity even while foreclosure ...
07/27/10 When it comes to directing concert films, Terry Gilliam might not be Martin Scorcese in terms of experience. Hell, he might not even be Jonathan Demme.
07/23/10 Portishead has never exactly been a touring machine, and we could say the same for Beak> , the krautrock -inspired band led by Portishead production eminence Geoff Barrow . But Barrow and Beak> will hit American shores in September for an exceedingly brief one-week tour that'll include a stop at ATP New York and a couple of in-stores. Dates, plus an amusing statement from Barrow, below: "Hello ...
07/23/10 Margaret Atwood is probably one of the greatest Canadian writers to ever live, if not one of the greatest living writers period. She's influenced Canada and the world with her books and is still as influential as she was when she was younger.
07/23/10 Sigur Rós are planning the release of a concert film, which is currently being worked on. The creative force behind the film is Quebecois director Vincent Morriset, who has worked with Arcade Fire amongst others.
07/22/10 Mark Lacter: The SF-San Jose metro area is on top; the L.A. area is 8th highest. Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas is dead last.
07/20/10 Photo by Amy Phillips "The working title of the next record is Funeral . Actually not kidding." -- The Wrens , who are finally working on the follow-up to 2003's The Meadowlands , according to several new blog posts . For context, the last time the Wrens dropped an album, nobody knew who Arcade Fire were . ( Via wrens.com )
07/15/10 -- Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, Robert Smith, Frank Black, Timbaland, and Rihanna are just some of the artists set to judge this year's International Songwriting Competition , which awards more than $150,000 in cash and prizes to professional and amateur songwriters around the world.
07/15/10 Ted Leo -- who is not retiring from music , thank you very much-- is heading out on a North American tour with his band the Pharmacists this fall. Look out for a video for Brutalist Bricks highlight "Bottled and Cork" soon, too. | 
