It’s not everyday that you see a Hasidic Jew in the music industry, let alone one who does a mix of reggae and rap.  Matisyahu has always interested me since his form of Judaism is the most strict and one of the more stricter forms of religion in general and yet he puts out albums [...]

Dallas Green recently just performed a new song at one of his shows for his City And Colour side project called “Oh, Sister” and claims it will be on his next album coming out this year. Portugal The Man just announced they would be releasing their forthcoming album American Ghetto within the next few months. [...]

Most people have heard by now the terrible earthquake that pretty much put a permanent dent in the country of Haiti.  From what most of us already know is that their are probably going to be over 100,00 people dead and it’s undetermined how long this may take to return an already poor country back [...]

MTV did a pretty amusing news article talking about the Mark McGuire steroid admission and relating it to music artists who need to admit they are on steroids as well.  The article talks about several artists in various genre’s who have bulked up in the past several years or who have been able to stay [...]

I’ve recently become obsessed with this band more and more over the past year and was extremely ecstatic that I was able to get an advance listen of their newest release and debut on Sub Pop entitled Teen Dream.  Where the word “Teen” doesn’t exactly describe the album, the word “Dream” certainly does with the [...]

Vampire Weekend just recently did a MTV Unplugged of various songs off their two releases and it’s pretty cool hearing their songs stripped down acoustically.  I didn’t even realize that MTV still had these exclusive concerts where people can get tickets to see various bands play their songs acoustically in a small theater or studio.  [...]

This is Chris Matzen freezing his shiz off in the last blizzard, proving L.I natives are nuts. Thanks to his wife, Heather Matzen, we got these great effing shots. Enjoy. and then…..

Beach House’s Sub Pop Homepage.  Scroll Down to Listen and Right Click to Download file for “Norway” Beach House Page If you join Silversun Pickup‘s mailing list, you can download a free acoustic version of their song “Lazy Eye.” Click Here To Sign Up Oh, and by the way, Soundgarden just got back together after 12 [...]

Been listening to alot of Motown lately, here is a classic from The Four Tops, Bernadette.  Please notice the excellent dancing. Turn this shiz up and enjoy.

  It’s tough coming back from a critically acclaimed first album which took the music industry by storm and then hope that your sophomore effort can live up to the hype.  Vampire Weekend needed to accomplish this after their breakthrough debut album was number one on almost every critics review and made top 25 at [...]