Express' Christopher Porter talks with Misery Index, a Baltimore/Silver Spring metal band, about their love of the Caps. My favorite parts–1) a street heckler yells "Capitals suck" and guitarist Sparky Voyles fires back, "Just because the Blues made the playoffs, jackass, doesn't mean anything"; 2) how many metal dudes speak fondly about focus groups?
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The American babysitting industry won't soon see another year like 2008, when a wave of iconic Gen-X bands—Built to Spill, My Bloody Valentine, Gray Matter–reformed and lured their increasingly creaky fans back into nightclubs. The intent wasn't to show that artistic vitality knows no age. These bands performed cherished albums, in their entirety, live. This [...]
What it is: The casts of Broadway shows from this year and years past doing Christmas songs, va-va-voom-style, with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares, an organization that raises money and makes grants for AIDS-related causes.
The bike under the tree: The Sleigher is honor-bound to admit that something deep within his cellular structure rejected this [...]
What it is: In an e-mail suggesting the Sleigher consider this song from the Brooklyn/D.C. band's upcoming album Birdseed Shirt, Deleted Scenes' Dan Scheuerman describes it as "sort of a quarter-life Christmas carol about being strung out and trying to get it together enough to spend some time with your family." Sure, but even if [...]
What it is: Ireland's second-biggest musical export (and 12th overall, between Irish Drinking Team T-shirts [€2.3 billion] and genuine peat moss sold to Americans who like pennywhistle solos [€2.15 billion]) gently tickles the holiday season with ghostly vocals, pulsing synthesizer arrangements, and carols sung in Gaelic.
The bike under the tree: "My! My! Time Flies!," [...]
What it is: Rocking around the Christmas Tween. Seven holiday-appropriate songs from Hollywood Records' junior-high-pop juggernaut at a very reasonable price (available only at Target).
The bike under the tree: Automatic DQ for Aly and AJ's "Greatest Time of Year," which is in fact the greatest song on this compilation. But it's recycled (as is Miley [...]
Asthmatic Kitty, the indie label home to Sufjan Stevens, Half-handed Cloud, and the Curtains, announced today that it would begin pricing records based on the scores given to them by critics at the music Web site Pitchfork. Ropechain, an album by the band Grampall Jookabox, for example, received a 5.4 (out of a possible 10) [...]
A Very Rosie Christmas!
Rosie Thomas
Sing-a-long
What it is: Seattle singer puts Sufjan Stevens–esque spin on Sarah McLachlan’s stellar Wintersong, with lots of horns and breathy, sometimes cloying, sometimes very nice vocals.
The bike under the tree: “Christmas Don’t Be Late,” the Alvin and the Chipmunks classic reimagined as a 6:40 ballad. Thomas imbues the previously chirpy song [...]
The worst thing that's happened to me in months is the Amazon MP3 store, which every day has a "daily deal" that leads to internal dialogs like this:
Hey! Supertramp's Breakfast in America for only $2.99! I should totally get that!
Wait–you sing along with Supertramp on the radio, but there's probably a reason you don't own [...]
Jason La Canfora is now referring to Skins backup quarterback Colt Brennan as "Cult of Colt," or, as he says in a recent Redskins Insider post, "CoC from here on out, if nothing else a nod to Corrosion of Conformity."
Is the Post's Skins beat reporter a secret hesher?
The funny thing is, for all [...]
