"[painting of Julie Christmas by myspace.com/allthethingsiveneversed]Brooklyn's Made Out of Babies (myspace) were responsible for one of my favorite records of 2006.  Coward was necessary, desperate music.  Someone had backed it into a corner, done bad things to it.  For forty minutes it lashed out, punching the air, screaming into a..."

"I started this post three times yesterday but, for some reason, couldn’t seem to get to the point. So today, I’m going to start with the point: Mudhoney is a legendary band that I feel has been underappreciated. How the hell did Mudhoney not become Nirvana? I saw these guys..."

"Power pop prince Matthew Sweet will release his 10th studio album on August 26 via Shout! Factory. The record is called Sunshine Lies, and it features contributions from previous Sweet collaborator Susanna Hoffs, formerly of the Bangles. Lies packs in 13 new tunes, though the double-LP edition (which also comes..."

"Over at Popdose, Dave Steed is collecting first-music-purchase stories. Sitting on the desk next to me right now is the first album I ever bought: the 1973 K-Tel sampler Bright Side of Music. I bought it sometime in late ‘73 or early ‘74, after about three years of buying exclusively..."

"thanks to indie surfer for the heads up on this one...The two members of The Sweet Serenades, Martin and Mathias, found each other for the first time in May 1991. They were both wearing the same CCCP-cap (a hip thing among pre teens in northern Sweden at the time) and..."