The blog has been pretty quiet this month because I have been doing a bit of traveling with the family. The good news is, along the way, I g...

I should be ecstatic. Aztec Camera's catalog is about to be reissued with loads of bonus tracks. As you may know, I'm a pretty big f...

Matador just announced details on A.C. Newman's upcoming album, 'Shut Down the Streets,' including an Oct. 9 release date and o...

The five-year wait is nearly over. Jens Lekman, the Swedish singer behind my favorite single from the last decade ("Rocky Dennis' ...

Earlier this week, the Guardian named several artists that declined invitations to participate in the Olympic Games closing ceremony on the...

Ween made several memorable albums, but Gene and Dean Ween had but one real commercial triumph. In 1993, the catchy "Push th' Littl...

The blog will be quiet for a bit. For the first time in a couple of years, the family is visiting our old stomping ground of Chicago. Oh, th...

For the second time today, I have news (of sorts) on the subscription series front. If you weren't part of Jim Noir's club that feat...

You may recall earlier this year Marshall Crenshaw used a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an EP subscription series, and his fans c...

Well, that didn't take long. Close Lobsters released a new 7" single on Saturday. I wish I could tell you to hurry over to Rough Tr...

I suppose we all have hundreds of songs that would fit on a post such as this, but these are three examples of taking the Beatle influence t...

It's usually pretty entertaining to listen to the recordings assembled at the beginning of artists' careers to shop around to labels...