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Flaming Lips' Christmas On Mars Premiere This Weekend In Kansas City, Details and Interviews

Fri Nov 21, 2:53 PM

As you already know from reading this week's Pitch music feature on the release of the Flaming Lips' original movie, Christmas On Mars, the backyard flick is showing tonight at 9 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Screenland... More >>

The Download Extra: Cover Me (New Of Montreal, My Brightest Diamond and Takki Takki Cover Songs)

Fri Nov 21, 10:34 AM

By ANDY VIHSTADT Guilt By Association 2 (out now on Engine Room Records) MP3: My Brightest Diamond, “Tainted Love (Soft Cell cover),? Guilt By Association 2 (Engine Room) thanks to My Old Kentucky Blog MP3: Takka Takka, “In the Air... More >>

Is That Danny Trejo In Tech N9ne's New Video for "Like Yeah"?

Fri Nov 21, 9:44 AM

Why, yes, it is Danny Trejo. Cool! Tech N9ne - "Like Yeah" Dark alley? You wouldn't wanna meet this guy in a sunlit parking lot. Then again, maybe you would.... More >>

The Download: New Mike Relm MP3s

Fri Nov 21, 9:13 AM

By ANDY VIHSTADT While we wait for Mike Relm’s proper debut (which was originally scheduled for release last month), we’ll settle for the four new tracks posted on his site. The California DJ/DVJ (yes, he scratches video as well,) has... More >>

Features

  • Murs makes a symbolic bid for office on his positively progressive new album
    Thursday, November 20
    An eloquent and gifted young black man running for president in 2008 recently stepped up to the mic and said: It's not socialism, it's not... More >>
  • Wayne Coyne and Kliph Scurlock discuss the Flaming Lips’ fantastical film freakout, Christmas on Mars.
    Thursday, November 20
    The Flaming Lips – Christmas on Mars trailer Kliph Scurlock still remembers the first time that Wayne Coyne bought him dinner. "I almost... More >>
  • Nashville Cat: When Ben Grimes moved to Tennessee a year ago, he thought he'd given up music. Nashville had other plans.
    Thursday, November 20
    Nashville, Tennessee: Music City. Though Nashville isn't as buzzed about these days as Austin or Brooklyn or Portland, Oregon, it still boasts a... More >>
  • Strictly Strange Tour
    Thursday, November 20
    Tech N9ne's recent work — like the much-marketed July release, Killer — has seen Kansas City's most famous rapper moving further and... More >>
  • Smashing Pumpkins
    Thursday, November 20
    Oh, we do cherish the memory of the early- '90s alt-rock boom. For those who witnessed it and are keen on reliving it 16 years later, the thought... More >>
  • Vic Chesnutt and Elf Power
    Thursday, November 20
    If the freak-folk craze had done justice to brilliant eccentrics toiling in far-out rustic sounds, then Vic Chesnutt would be on the tip of the... More >>
  • Little Joy
    Thursday, November 20
    It's been nearly three years since the Strokes released a record; in the meantime, we've learned just how much talent is hidden behind Julian... More >>
  • Peter Mulvey
    Thursday, November 20
    When artists rerecord songs from their back catalogs, it's usually a sign that they're running short on ideas. Although singer-songwriter Peter... More >>
  • Expassionates
    Thursday, November 20
    It's been a decade since Kansas City's Expassionates put out a record, and it's safe to say the band is champing at the bit to atone for those... More >>
  • Minnesota folk-singer Charlie Parr revives jaded modern audiences with American traditional music
    Thursday, November 13
    The most surprising thing about Charlie Parr is that he makes people dance. He does it sitting down. He rarely raises his eyes above the... More >>
  • Video editor Brian Hicks makes the cut for some prominent Kansas City bands
    Thursday, November 13
    Brian Hicks is no rocker, but he sure looks like one. He's got the skinny jeans and the dramatic haircut — dyed black strands that fall... More >>
  • Freedy Johnston
    Thursday, November 13
    A month after playing a series of free shows in Wichita, native Kansan Freedy Johnston heads east to the Jackpot. As he did for those October... More >>
  • Coldplay
    Thursday, November 13
    Back about the time that Radiohead released The Bends, it was difficult to find a more universally revered British band. But like its... More >>
  • The Noise FM
    Dream of the Attack
    (self-released)
    Thursday, November 13
    If you've ever happened upon a Noise FM show, you know that these three dudes can bring it. In a town (Lawrence) known more for its eccentric... More >>
  • The Gaslight Anthem
    Thursday, November 13
    The Gaslight Anthem is a band caught just between the lonely troubadour ache and the we're-all-in-this-together ethos of every gutter punk.... More >>
  • Various Artists
    Titan: It's All Pop!
    (Numero Group)
    Thursday, November 13
    After (and, some would argue, during) its 1978-81 heyday, Kansas City's Titan Records wasn't heard of much outside record-collector guides, but... More >>
  • Black Tie Dynasty
    Thursday, November 13
    The first impression that Black Tie Dynasty makes is professionalism — the sort of confidence and cockiness that the Killers and the... More >>
  • El Ten Eleven
    Thursday, November 13
    Too often, the loop pedal is a gimmick that compensates for shortchanging songwriting — not so with El Ten Eleven. The Los Angeles duo of... More >>
  • Dear Columbia ... P.S.

    Steddy P

    Thursday, November 13
    For a Missouri rapper, it takes moxie to include Columbia — that bare-knuckled town of pickup trucks and sanguine necks between Kansas City... More >>
  • After 30 years in obscurity, Kansas City's Titan Records claims its power-pop throne
    Thursday, November 06
    "(Baby) It’s You," by the Boys, from Titan: It’s All Pop! (Numero Group): If there is a god of Midwestern power pop, then the little,... More >>

National

Music from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

Stand and Deliver

With No Deliverance, the Toadies revert to the bare bones of their past
It was a big-deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were... More >>

Dallas

The Vampire Lounge, Back in Business, Hopes Not to Suck

Also: Rhett Miller returns to Dallas to champion a good cause
Between this weekend's expected big opening for Twilight in movie theaters and the first-season... More >>

Denver

Dead Confederate carries the flag for a new variation on Southern rock

When he's asked to describe his home town of Augusta, Georgia, Dead Confederate... More >>

Houston

Beyoncé's Back

Alter ego (and two movies) in tow
Arguably the world's most famous Houston native, and definitely its most popular female R&B... More >>

Miami

Calle 13 Plays La Covacha

With a stellar new album, this Puerto Rican duo extends its global reach.
Irreverent, impertinent, and unapologetic, the Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 has never been... More >>

Phoenix

Los Guys Take It Easy and Don’t Sweat the Mill Ave. Label

Most bands will tell you that being in a group is like being a polygamist. You're married to... More >>

San Francisco

Of Montreal’s tantric shape-shifting

Kevin Barnes is a centaur. Or, at least, he plays one for a few minutes onstage each night with... More >>

Seattle

Lady GaGa: Some Like It Pop

She may idolize Andy Warhol, but her highbrow pop nostalgia is far from factory-made.
Barely anyone paid attention to my music writing until I began reviewing concerts by pop acts... More >>

St. Louis

I Need a Hero: In honor of Smashing Pumpkins' twentieth anniversary, a list of Billy Corgan's top ten guitar heroes

Smashing Pumpkins vocalist Billy Corgan is a guitar hero. This is not my declaration, it's... More >>
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