Artist Profile: Paper Arrows will sizzle through the air and set fires

Paper Arrows play some pretty amazing aural tricks – one moment they evoke Jack Joseph Puig-produced Canadian band Big Wreck with its thundering 22″ kick and triple amped hollow body guitars, the next lead singer Joe Goodkin sounds like the love child of Neil Young and Thom Yorke. But somehow the band manages to avoid […] […]

Flaming Lips Join Grizzly Bear and Walkmen At Pitchfork Music Fest

The good people at Pitchfork have been all abuzz today announcing the addition of Oklahoma freakout rockers Flaming Lips to their music festival happening at Chicago’s Union Square July 17th through the 19th. […]

Show Preview: Menew @ Viper Room – Wed. 25th, 2009

Relative unknowns, Toronto-based Menew (hint the name is reversible) recently played the David Letterman show on the strength of their self-produced album alone. Apparently Paul Schaeffer brought them up to his office after the show to discuss their future plans. The three brothers (Shade – Vocals and Guitar, Key – Piano and Synthesizers, Nathan Samuel Phillip – drums/backing vocals) from the town of Cambridge, Ontario outside Toronto proper are playing a pair of small dates in Los Angeles this week including a Cinespace Tuesday night and a 7:30 showcase open to the public at The Viper Room tonight, Wednesday, March 25th, 2009. Check ’em out and you can say you knew them when. […]

VIDEO: Michael Jackson 1988 Grammy Awards and New Dates Announced

There is a reason why he was able to buy the Beatles publishing catalog and sold over 750 million records worldwide and won thirteen Grammy awards. That’s right – 750,000,000.00. So you can harangue him all you want, but you don’t know a thing unless you can get down like Michael Jackson. […]