Sell out or opportunist? This is the question that has been asked ever since pop music and advertising has combined. Gone are the days of the jingle. No more will a simple melody and memorable line such as 'plop-plop-fizz-fizz, oh what a relief it is' be enough to make it in today's savvy ...

Apologies for the indulgence; this started out as a column. In typical fashion, another few months had passed and all the ideas I promised I would commit to paper...er, document, at least...had gone by the wayside. But one column I absolutely had to finish was the one I ...

As we inch ever closer to the year’s halfway point, the quality of 2006’s output continues to increase. Looking back at our most recent batch of Albums of the Week, there have been some truly awesome ones, and one can only assume that, with seven months to go, it can still get even better. This ...

Upon entering Warsaw Friday evening, my companions and I were greeted with the familiar yet bewildering sound of repetitive, heavy hitting bass lines and head knocking verse. On stage stood a charismatic but hardly imposing figure dressed in baggy garb and a titled baseball cap, spitting hot fire ...

“No Children” by The Mountain Goats from Tallahassee One artist that has sorely been neglected for our “Best Song Ever” feature is The Mountain Goats, also known in most realms as John Darnielle. Darnielle, for the majority of his career, has been a firm advocate of lo-fi ...

What we could have done: offer our opinions on whatever songs are playing on the radio at the moment. What we did instead: the usual—go over the best extended play singles of recent months, and tell you why they’re worth hearing. We’ve gotten a few notable short-players in our mailbox that we ...

Disclaimer: There will be no jokes about Delaware in this article. There will be no obvious references made to the movie, and as far as I am concerned, Delaware will now be known as Coolest Frickin’ State Ever (instead of the Blue Hen State), since it somehow managed to ...

“There’s a Wal-Mart and a whopper house and that’s where you hang out,” Beth Ditto, lead singer of indie punks the Gossip, said of her hometown, Searcy, Arkansas. In case you were wondering, the small Southern burg has never exactly been a punk rock hot bed. Searcy’s population is about 19,000 ...

McLusky wasn’t meant to last long. A band that brutal, that abrasive, that unapologetically obnoxious, explodes as quickly as its formed, leaving a particularly noxious puff of smoke, cinders left from the expanse of destruction it caused, and three particularly awesome albums. The Welsh trio ...

I wish that I could tell you that it was all an experiment, as an insight into the human condition, or at least as research for this article, but I can’t. The truth is I began to watch it of my own free will. Sure, I stumbled onto it quite by accident, but it was my decision not to change the ...