Covers of rock classics like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." Massive 20,000-person sing alongs. Pyro, confetti, and a beer-guzzling Drunk Bunny: Green Day's summer tour is a total blowout. And Saturday night in Denver it got even better: The Bay Area punks debuted a never-before-heard song. Watch video...

So I’ve got some good news and bad news. First the bad: it looks like Booth favorite Novel’s upcoming Audiobiography’s not going to see the light of day after some difficulties with Capitol Records (we’ll have to leave it at that). The good news? The multi-talented producer/singer/rapper/songwriter is determined to...

If the nascent noise-pop movement â€" No Age, etc â€" has lacked anything to date, it’s a few extra members of the fairer sex. San Francisco-based Brilliant Colors level that balance with three ladies resembling The Slits dressed for a summer holiday. There are...

ichard Yates called one of his heartbreaking short-story collections Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, and Tara Jane O'Neil's latest album, A Ways Away, is nearly as mournful and plaintive and could bear the subtitle Ten Kinds of Distance. With her songs, O'Neil has distilled a lyrical, musical, and mythical approach to...

Our bros over at AD posted a little ditty about Chicago’s Smith Westerns, click HERE to read. Or just download the tunes below. You choose. Click HERE to read the little ditty I wrote about em a week or so ago. Get down with this sound.

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  This is the fifth solo release by Rodan and June of 44 alum O'Neill, whose music straddles the line between alt-folk sionger/songwriter and foreboding drone quite well. "A Ways Away" is intimate in sound yet distant emotionally. Most of the songs are feature just O'Neill on acoustic guitar, with...

One problem with music classification is that it breeds division, which in turn breeds picky consumers. “I like rock but not country,” says one. “I only like underground hip-hop,” says another. And still others claim some subtle derivation on the pop canon as pure, authentic, and ultimately better than any...

I am reposting this because when I originally posted about it back in November the album was next to impossible to acquire. As of today it can easily be purchased from Amazon.

I’ll be honest. I’m not really too into tribute albums. I mean, they usually have their high points...