With maybe the exception of hair metal bands, most rock stars were big nerds before gaining the love of millions of adoring fans. It’s their weird outsider quirkiness that speaks so well to the masses. While many rock songs are written about love lost, love found or rock n’ rolling all night and partying ev-er-y [...]

The Heligoats has been an ongoing side project of Chris Otepka (formerly of Troubled Hubble) since 1999. With a varying cast of musicians and instrumentation over the years Otepka has kept the flow of at least one record per year for The Heligoats.

In this unique review, Nathan Lind and Mackenzie McAninch share their opinions (and arguments)  about the new White Stripes documentary: Under Great White Northern Lights. The film has already been released in select theaters and film festivals but check here for updated information on where to view the film.

The White Stripes: “Let’s Shake Hands”

THE WHITE [...]

This is the tenth of twenty-six exclusive reviews of the A-Z Series by Northern Irish band Ash. Type “Ash” or “A to Z series” into our search engine to find our other articles on this topic.
“Command is the best The A-Z Series has to offer, and makes me extremely proud to be an Ash fan!” [...]

We just updated our music player (top left of your screen) with tunes from Nana Grizol, The Knife, Queens of the Stoneage, Deastro, Ray Charles and more!
Enjoy while you screw off at work!!

EACH MONTH WE PROFILE AN ARTIST THAT FLIPSWITCH PR PROVIDES US WITH. THIS MONTH WE’RE PROFILING KARTICK AND GOTAM.

Masters of India groove, Israeli duo Kartick & Gotam (also known as K&G), are sure to take the electronic world music scene by storm in the coming months. These extremely talented and tenured musicians (Kartick a [...]

Indie rockers Wild Beasts of Domino Records (Arctic Monkeys and Lightspeed Champion include some of the artist attached to the label) ended their headlining US tour at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last Sunday. The band filled the venue with their harmonic sounds which were described by NYC native Andrea Saravia “to be as soothing [...]

The Automatic (yes the band who wrote the hit track “Monster”) are gearing up to release their third album Tear The Signs Down, which will be released on March 8th.
What sets this apart from their past releases is that the band has established their own record label called Armoured Records in Cardiff, Wales. To get [...]

Is bacon the greatest food of all time? I think it might be because there are very few, if any, foods that it does not go well with. A co-worker recently brought this subject up to me because he heard a couple of radio dj’s trying to come up with foods that wouldn’t mesh well [...]

It’s hard to believe that he’s been gone for nearly seven years already, but had Johnny Cash lived longer, he would have been seventy-eight today. Wear black today in honor of “The Man in Black.”

Image courtesy of The Johnny Cash Myspace page