“If you’re in a studio making an album you can easily say, “Fuck everyone, I’m making this music for me” … but if you are going to start standing up and inviting people to come and see you … You have to at least something that’s worth being there for.” So says acclaimed electronic musician [...]

Mayer Hawthorne‘s major label debut, How Do You Do, isn’t on the way until the fall, but that hasn’t stopped his original home (Stones Throw) from continuing to support the singer with releases like Direct To Disk #1. The limited live album was literally cut straight to vinyl in April, and is now available in [...]

Kissing Cousins-You Bring Me Down-Official Music Video from Kissing Cousins on Vimeo. A few weeks ago, th LA band Kissing Cousins released their latest EP, Unfortunate End. Broadly speaking, the cousins traffic in the same kind of doomy, ’50s-inspired neo-garage as Dum Dum Girls and the Raveonettes, but there’s something about them that’s more haunting [...]

Everyone on the Internet was talking about that Weezer cover of “Paranoid Android” last week. But does anyone remember GOAT PUNISHMENT? Back when Rivers Cuomo was still in his self-imposed recording exile between Pinkerton and the Green Album, the band played a bunch of Nirvana covers live under the painfully Rivers Cuomo-y moniker Goat Punishment. [...]