Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Lori Baily "Is there any better big venue live band these days than Sonic Youth? Okay, maybe Radiohead, maybe Phish, and maybe--depending on how their Madison Square Garden debut goes this week--even Arcade Fire. (Yes, we just used... more info

Guardian Music — (Cryptogramophone)Don't be deceived by the name – this is really a scorched-earth metal-electronica improvising guitar band that threatens to blow you out of your window. This suitably other-worldly double-CD package (the cover images, fittingly, a... more info

Totally Fuzzy — jeffen said... Fastbacks/Gas Huffer split 7 (1991) http://musicruinedmylife.blogspot.com Radio Free Wohlman said... Transmission 3610 There was a time that hitchhiking was a safe and accepted means of transportation. Let's go back to that care-free ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sonic Youth @ MHOW in 2009 (more by Lori Baily) "What I'm aiming for all the time when we play live is a balance between the high energy of loud music, and a calm meditational energy you sometimes find at... more info

NME — Record Club is back for a new covers album more info

Stereogum — In the ’90s, Yanni was weirdly present in my life. I only watched Live At The Acropolis once (and maybe halfway through), but someone gave me a Yanni folder as a joke, I owned a promo copy of the album, and he came up often as a punchline in conver... more info

Pitchfork — For his Record Club series, Beck gathers friends together to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website. So far, the Record Club choices have come from canonical or at least critically respected artists: the Velvet Underg... more info

Guardian Music — 'They made me love music more'There is a bloke currently selling blank cassettes on eBay: unopened TDK MA-R C60s, to be exact. Before you take this as further proof that eBay is the great car-boot sale of cyberspace, it is worth mentioning that unope... more info

NME — The ongoing project sees a group of artists rework an album in a day more info

Pitchfork — Beck's Record Club project-- in which he enlists friends to cover an entire album in a day, then posts the results to his website-- stands as a consistently fascinating ongoing project. At the moment, we're almost done hearing the version of the IN... more info