I was just having this conversation with myself about The Black Keys. Every time one of their songs comes on the radio, I groove for about 30 seconds, acknowledging that they really seem to have that throwback white boy blues rock sound nailed with well crafted songs, solid riffs, and reasonably tight musicianship.

Nic Cage catches so much shit, but the simple fact of the matter is that he provides every single movie he does with exactly what the movie needs/deserves. He will never ruin a great movie. He will never elevate schlock to something better. But he is great in great movies, and makes schlocky movies exactly what they…

Anyone post "Yo Dawg…" meme about the Reboot thing yet? The joke is nearly a decade old, but if it was ever appropriate…

Slapstick remains on my Top 10 Most Influential Books of my youth because it was my first Vonnegut. That said. I think it is squarely in the bottom half of his work quality-wise, but it was my gateway drug.

Zach Galligan must be stoked as shit.

Is it weird that the ONLY thing that bugs me about this look is the "Damaged" tattoo on the forehead? All the rest of the ink I think is fine for a standard Hollywood "Edgy-fication" of the character. But the "Damaged" tattoo takes the whole thing from half-assed Russian inmate straight to Hot Topic Refugee. It pretty…

Attended a concert by alt-radio mediocrities Live on the tale end of their Throwing Copper "glory" days. Why, you ask? Motherfucking PJ Harvey opening for them touring behind the release of To Bring You My Love. As if Live weren't outclassed enough by living legend PJ, the other opening act was Veruca Salt whose live…

The best thing about Rebel Highway has to be the soundtrack album they released. Fast Track To Nowhere. Iggy Pop, Concrete Blonde, Babes In Toyland, Wild Colonials…shit even Blues Traveler manages to no completely fuck up their contribution. Great stuff.

"Already optioned by David Cronenberg" best line on the internet today. Hilarious and completely appropriate.

Hard to believe Psychocandy is 30 years old. That album is the very definition of timeless.

Pity it's at the fucking Electric Factory.

Why do they have to play one of the shittiest venues in Philly? The Electric Factory is where acoustics go to die. Almost everyone I've ever seen play there has sounded like shit. I know Philly is lacking in mid-sized venues but the TLA, Trocadero, or Mann all would have been better choices.

I absolutely love the idea of a Tom Waits cover, but worry that Hold On would come out painfully twee in the hands of most Undercover bands.

We need to have someone cover a GWAR song at this point. I nominate Slaughterama.

Granted, highlighting the Fred Durst angle is both funny and improves entrants' odds of winning by dramatically reducing the number of entries. But, can we all agree that Living Colour are legends and BLS, Sevendust, and Andrew W.K. would be decent. The only problem I can think of would be dealing with a boat half…

Damn! I didn't know Manson was playing the Robert Blake character in the upcoming stage version of Lost Highway!

I agree that the Hicks/Jones theory is pure clownshit insanity. However, your high school litmus test wouldn't work because the theorists have that whole "original" Alex Jones who was replaced by "Agent Hicks" thing, so there are complete histories for both people.

There's not a dud to be found on Whammy! either, if you ask me. But yeah, I think this thread has prompted me to dig out my B-52's cassettes.

You know what, if Justin Bieber had offed himself there would be nowhere near the amount of ire towards this kind of diatribe. Yes, Robin Williams was one of the all time greats. Yes, his suicide was a tragedy. Yes, we love Robin Williams and articles like this that would, in the context of the time, seem to be…

Phineas and Ferb is, along with Wilfred and Archer, one of the few shows on television that is guaranteed to make me actually laugh out loud at least once per episode.