FISTFULAYEN

Early this morning Pacific time we recorded this coming Friday’s episode of This Week In Music. I interviewed VEVO CEO Rio Caraeff via Skype from his NYC office, then Kickstarter co-Founder Yancey Strickler Skype’d in to share his favorite albums of the year thus far. At one point Yancey asked me what my favorite albums [...]

Thanks to the perseverance of Peggy Dold, tonight some of the finest minds in music trivia gathered at Topspin’s Santa Monica office to play a board game from 1983: Rock Trivia. I had this game when I was a kid * (I was born in 1972) and found it almost as hard today as it [...]

I discovered Jay Reatard‘s Blood Visions via one of WMFU’s year-end best-of lists a few years back. I’d heard The Reatards years earlier but Blood Visions became an obsession. It remains one of the best one-man punk showings ever, and definitely the best of this century. Jay signed to Matador, released a handful of singles [...]

So the economy must have officially turned around: Coachella sold out in less than a week. Sincere congrats to Paul and everyone involved, and my sincere apologies for not making it this year. Not that I’ll be missed. Goldenvoice will be happy to have one less LA-based industry jackass making a flimsy business case for [...]

Thanks Shamal for taking Zoe and me to see Rise, Ride, Roar, the film documenting David Byrne’s 2009 tour here in London tonight at this amazing local London theatre: I saw this show live twice in 2009 and was surprised how much I enjoyed the movie. Beautifully visually and sonically. Moving. When I saw the [...]