POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - Bands affiliated with Christianity are increasingly inclined to downplay their religious side. If you're into Jeebus, you're a right-wing lunatic, a pushy, deluded, intolerant, mouth-breather without a salient word to say ...

POSTED // Jun 17,2009 - There's no music from Bill Callahan's--you may know him better under his former "band" name Smog--13th album Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (Drag City) on his MySpace page. Make that his "Official Fuck MySpace Page..."

POSTED // May 6,2009 - B-movie bluesman Bob Log III speaks in a stoner's cadence, with jazzy rolls, micro-lulls and odd word emphases that recall the late great comedian Mitch Hedberg...

POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - We want a story, lest we again resort to recitations of influences heard and inferred, and a back-story anyone can get from the band's Website or MySpace page.

POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - Rouse's cringe humor is extra-shocking, since he looks like a returned missionary. But that's why his jokes about marijuana, racism, homosexuality and his own multiple sclerosis earn guilty belly laughs.

POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - In his hierarchy of basic human needs, Maslow's pyramid'the top section, above all the love/food/safety stuff, encompasses items essential to self-actualization.

POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - Justin Townes Earle. I almost staggered right into him at the Bloodshot Records party last week in Austin, Texas, but that’s as close as I came to antagonizing the guy, or even saying hello.

POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - Pete Bernhard and I are both getting ready to split town, both of us headed to South by Southwest, the annual Austin orgy of beer, bands and breakfast tacos—in other words, heaven.

POSTED // Feb 26,2009 - Every record I make, theres been people that strongly disliked it, says the mellow Oregonian hippie-turned-Nashvillian hippie singer-songwriter in an early morning phone call. It comes with the territory, even with concerts. You just have to accept that some people out there arent gonna like it.

POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - Paynes just not a 6 a.m. dude. Salt Lake Citys own Thin White Duke is most often out late, rocking onstage with one of several bandsRed Bennies, Glinting Gems, Ether Orchestra, Starmy and Purr Bats. He strolls casually next to Fox 13s jolly Big Budaha stark contrast to Paynes tall, lanky, blackclad figure and casual deadpan demeanor.