As the more observant may have noticed, I’ve made roughly two dozen new additions to the blogroll on the right–in addition to several other adds on the more comprehensive links page. Other than the stuff I throw in the Google Reader Icon that I’m convinced no one reads, I regretfully share the wealth far too […]

I’d have been inclined to post on Confessions of a Would-Be Hipsters’ new compilation off blog name alone, but when I found out that the proceeds would benefit Los Angeles’ longest-running homeless shelter, The Midnight Mission, it was a no-brainer. Available for $10 digital purchase at E-Junkie, the album features exclusive original holiday songs from […]

In what might be my favorite move of the entire Bush presidency, George Bush has commuted the sentence of Refugee Camp All Star, John Forte, in the nick of time for the Ten Years-Gone-Remember Me-Version of “Ninety-Nine.” Apparently, the team of Orrin Hatch (?) and Carly Simon (??) were Forte’s most staunch advocates. Little known […]

Que lastima. First the auto industry, then the massacre to Penn St, and now this–it’s been a rough week for the state of Michigan.

I’m not normally into the shameless shill thing–other than the rare occasions when I’ve inveigled readers into nominating me for the much sought after Chancellor of the Confederated Islands of Micronesia position. Thanks for nothing, guys. However, this morning, Stereogum sent me an e-mail purporting that The Passion is a “top contender” for Best Music […]

Let’s say that you’re drunk. You’re very drunk. It’s 7:00 p.m. You’ve been steadily getting smashed since work got out two hours ago and you have a fiery, insatiable craving to listen to some music. But then you realize that the High Places and Abe Vigoda show at the Smell (you carpetbagger you), doesn’t start […]

I don’t usually do the party flier thing but I know one of the people involved in this event’s promotion so…. Plus, Wallpaper are good people in my book for playing that show I put on a few months back with Knux and Clean Guns. And that Obama fellow ain’t too shabby either. More info […]

Seems like the appropriate cut to play right now. One of the best Wu songs ever and perhaps my favorite of their videos. R.I.P. Isaac Hayes (1942-2008). Download: MP3: Wu-Tang Clan ft. Isaac Hayes-“I Can’t Go To Sleep”

For that hideous American Apparel ad to the right. I didn’t know what I had in store when I approved it. Apparently, orgies involving hipster girls and pederast-seeming gym teachers who just emerged from a disco-era warp, is really in this fall. Thusly, today’s word for the day is “Oy.” For those who don’t know […]

Thanks to an intense campaign filled with blackmail, bribery, intimidation, coaxing and more than a little wheedling, my LA Weekly essay, “Soulja Boy: Cranking the Chain,” was chosen for this year’s Da Capo Best Music Writing Anthology. Needless to say, I’m very excited and have already begun to compose a thank-you speech big-upping the academy, […]