Dear Chris Cornell: I’ve been worried about you for a while now. I was worried when you disbanded Soundgarden. And then I got worried again when you might have made some like, inoffensive solo albums that made me forget you wrote some decent music at one point. I don’t know. I feel like you appeared [...]
With all the news surrounding the impending potential merger between promotion giant Live Nation and ticket colossus Ticketmaster, including a recent Congressional hearing, we, the consumers, as well as artists and venues, have been given a chance to rethink our priorities as far as just how much we’re willing to put up with to get [...]
Okay, a couple of weeks ago we broke the story about Sublime getting back together. Since then, I’ve had plenty of time to think about all of this and I have to admit I’m not very thrilled with the idea of Sublime continuing on as Sublime without their old singer/guitarist Brad Nowell. The guy had [...]
(In case you couldn’t tell, that’s Miley there in the middle making the offensive slanted Asian eyes) Hanna Montanah aka Miley Cyrus aka one of Disney’s newest (successful) manipulations of the ever-coveted tween girl demographic, has been engaged in a bit of a spat with Radiohead aka The Guys Who Fucking Did OK Computer aka [...]
Well, it’s a new year, so that must mean Jack White is in a new band. This time it’s called the Dead Weather and he’ll be playing the drums and singing. The lead vocals will be tackled by Alison Mosshart (the Kills), the guitar will be handed to Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age/the [...]
Jeff Ventre has also submitted photos from Mardi Gras 2009 in New Orleans *Might not be work safe* Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
When I was five, my mom gave me a VHS tape of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. This was a life-changing event. I began to understand that music was an abstract concept, way more than melody. It could be scary, funny, trippy, serious, and brand new, often in the same song. That’s when the music switch [...]
Some images of Mardi Gras in New Orleans 2009, courtesy of Stefan and Joleen Black              Â
EACH MONTH WE PROFILE AN ARTIST THAT ABSOLUTELY KOSHER RECORDS PROVIDES US WITH. FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, MEET AZEDA BOOTH. The band Yo La Tengo recently saw Danish group Under Byen in concert and they got extremely inspired by them. So much so that they decided to tone down the trance that Under Byen [...]
We just woke up from a 6 day bender and were told that something called Lent has begun. All we really know is that you’re supposed to quit something for forty days. We think quitting is for quitters, so instead we’re going to bring you a brand new Jeeebus image everyday for the next forty [...]