Today marks the respective 42nd and 43rd birthdays of Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. As leaders of their seminal and highly enduring bands, both have grown from cult status in the mid-’90s to established indie-rock big-hitters. T-shirts from their acts sit in many cool dad and…
Richard D. James, best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, said back in the early ’90s, “if you lived to a hundred but you didn’t sleep, it’d be like living to two hundred. Originally, it wasn’t for more time to make music, I just thought sleep was a bit of…
Vans Warped Tour 2011 Cruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach Saturday, July 30, 2011Better than: Sunburn for nothing. Now in its 17th year of operation, the Vans Warped Tour’s continued popularity is a testament to its ability to evolve with musical trends and what one might call “youth alternative lifestyle.” With so…
“So this year I realized, if I don’t do the stuff I feel like, if I make rules about what I can’t do, someone is going to take my rules and fuck it and do it better than me. Someone like will.i.am will do a record that sounds like something…
It has been two-and-a-half years since Blink-182 announced its re-formation, not long after drummer Travis Barker’s brush with death in a plane crash. Since then, the band has toured the world, headlined huge European festivals, and embarked on solo albums (and, in the case of Barker, toured with Lil Wayne)…
