Pixies Reunion Rumors: Should You Be Worried Or Excited?

The Pixies’ first reunion produced one song–Kim Deal’s “Bam Thwok”–and a bunch of chances for people who were born between Surfer Rosa and Tromp le Monde to see them live for the first time, and was thus low-risk-enough to be almost universally popular. Now a possible Pixies re-reunion is on…

They Might Be Giants Does Not Need More Conspiracy Theorists

Hard to believe that it’s been over three decades since John Flansburgh and John Linnell first started playing music as They Might Be Giants. What started as two nerds and a drum machine has slowly evolved into a multi-media company with two distinct divisions: indie rock and children’s music. Speaking…

Justin Timberlake and Kanye West’s Feud And Avoiding Famous-Guy Backlash

The foundation of Justin Timberlake’s fame–broad-based and consistent and weirdly resistant to automatic internet backlash–is that it came, originally, from looking this ridiculous, and he seems to accept that. That’s the only thing I can come up with to explain just how many people I heard talking about his appearance…

Former Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus Shuffles His iPod For Us

Mississippi native and former lead-singer for the successful Squirrel Nut Zippers, Jimbo Mathus, shows his true southern self on his latest, excellent album, White Buffalo. While his old band brought attention back to Swing music for a while in the late 1990’s, it’s now tough to imagine Mathus ever being…

Deep Thoughts on Geography from Swedish Band Graveyard

Besides learning that “begravningsplats” is Swedish for graveyard, talking to Axel Sjöberg, drummer for the Swedish rock band of the same name, was both fascinating and a bit unnerving. Not only does the guy sound exactly like Dirk Nowitzki, but just when I thought the language issue was going to…