The Nationals are requesting your votes for "7th Inning Stretch Song," "Home Run Song," and "Victory Song." As pointed out in this Idolator post, there's only one local choice in there, Chuck Brown's "Bustin Loose" (my personal theme music for overeating) and the rest are pretty crappy (though I do get goosebumps whenever I [...]

In case you have yet to see this choice XXL interview with DMX, here's the highlight:
XXL: Are you following the presidential race?
DMX: Not at all.
You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!
Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, [...]

Now comes news via DCist that B.B. King is scheduled to be rolled out on to the Strathmore's stage. The DCist poster with the misfortune of hyping this news gives it their best spin:
While Father Time has taken away some of King's technique and forced him to perform seated, his soul is firmly intact [...]

From yesterday's Washington Post:
"'The last section of that song is known as the Obama fight song.'"
–Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, explaining the chanted chorus "We can make it better" during a performance last week at the District's 9:30 Club"

This week Maxim magazine got caught in a lie: It delivered a kinda-negative review of the Black Crowes' new album, Warpaint, which the magazine hadn't actually heard. The band's management has been angrily demanding all manner of apologies–proving that rock critics are still useful for publicity, if no longer in a telling-people-about-new-records kinda way.
Aaron Leitko [...]

Finally someone defends Jeff Mangum. In a Slate piece titled "The Salinger of Indie Rock," Taylor Clark offers an empathetic argument on behalf of the singer/songwriter for quitting on the record biz shortly after the release of his now-classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
That album has produced a book, tons of imitations, Mangum-related hoaxes, [...]

I didn't know until Sunday that Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black were performing on Saturday at the 6th & I Synagogue. But I did see the NYT article about Showalter, and I found myself fuming at this particular passage:
After a year and a half on the road he had perfected enough material for [...]

NME is reporting that Barack Obama has racked up another endorsement, this one from Arcade Fire's Win Butler. On the band's website, the Canadian resident writes:
I am watching Hillary Clinton in her victory speech in new Hampshire...they just threw a bunch of college kids behind her, and had her talk about student loans, and had [...]

I guess I wasn't paying much attention the first week/weekend of 2007, probably because there was no Black Plastic Bag then and I was still trying to catch up with the 2006 year-end stuff. But I'm looking at venues, record stores, and whatever other musical possibilities I can find, and there's no getting around it: [...]

Every year–or nearly every year–fucking Hoboken gets to celebrate Hanukkah in a very cool way. They get Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's for eight straight nights. These shows have turned into huge deals–for the charities, the eBay profiteers, and of course the Jersey nerds.
This past weekend, I went up for the Saturday show. The band [...]