Don't ask what I was doing reading the Phoenix's annual list of the 100 unsexiest men--I guess I wanted to see if Ann Coulter was on there (she was!). There are other obvious choices like Dick Cheney and the old dude from the eHarmony commercials, but some of their music choices were surprising and hilarious. Calling the Decemberists' Colin Meloy a "pasty, dough-faced singer with a whiny, needling voice and overly ornate vocabulary" is simply stating the facts, but saying "It's like he's got a lazy eye, only it's his whole face" about Jay-Z, well, that's just good comedy. Check out the list here.

Words cannot describe what you are about to see, so I'll just use letters and punctuation instead: WTF?!! Nobody, I mean nobody, has ever wondered what Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" would sound like as a weepy, over-emotive piano-ballad, especially as sung by Alanis Morissette. Nevertheless, here it is. If you can stomach this enough to make it through the whole thing, you, my friend, have the constitution of a tank.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary eight-armed drummer Buddy Rich, here's a phenomenal drum battle Rich had with Animal from the Muppet Show in 1978.

Sometimes the raw power of the fist-pump is just too much to handle.

Venerable slowcore outfit Low is famous for its absent sense of humor, so this video for "Breaker" comes as quite the head-scratcher. I don't know, maybe the singer's furious eating of cake is a metaphor for his existential quest to rid suffering through sweetness and is not intended to be humorous. Maybe that second glass of milk is symbolism for that most famous of philosophical quanderies. Whatever, it's just weird.

Just in case you have no idea who Karl Christian Rove is and why this video is a total mindf*** he is the Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. That is all we can say...the rest is jawdroppingly fantastical.

Power-to-the-people website The Consumerist has announced the winner of its "Worst Company in America 2007" reader poll, and the winner is...surprise! The RIAA. Beating out Halliburton by a few percentage points, the Recording Industry's attack dog is set to receive the coveted "lucky golden sh*t trophy." Well deserved, indeed.



The Consumerist also has contact info for each of the big four record labels' CEOs, so you can give EMI chief exec Eric Nicoli (the guy on the left looking suspiciously like Peter Boyle) a call and tell him what you think the RIAA's shameful tactics of suing children and elderly hurricane survivors.

Here's one video on our site that you can watch without having to sit through a military advertisement. The Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ hollers back to hip-hop's political past as a voice for speaking truth to power.

The Thurston Moore seal of approval certainly did a lot for wunderkinds Be Your Own Pet. Last year was huge for them - press were falling over one another to get a piece of the group and the fans just could not get enough. Despite the blessing of Thurston the fact remains that BYOP f***ing rip it live.
5/1 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
5/2 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
5/3 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
5/4 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
5/7 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
5/8 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
5/9 - Pontiac, MI - Clutch Cargo's
5/11 - Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
5/12 - Montreal, Quebec - L'Olympia
5/13 - Boston, MA - Avalon
5/15 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom
5/16 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
5/17 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
5/19 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle
5/20 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live

In August 2005, All Tomorrows Parties introduced a new concert series
in London called “Don’t Look Back” inviting artists to present a
retrospective of one of their works in its entirety. ATP kicked off the
season with The Stooges performing Fun House from start to finish in
one amazing show at the Hammersmith Apollo. Since then other
participants have included the Dirty Three, Teenage Fanclub and
Tindersticks. ATP is now bringing the concept to United States. To kick
it off in the proper way Don’t Look Back Concerts is proud to announce
that Sonic Youth will be performing Daydream Nation in a series of
upcoming dates:

Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation ***

July 13th @ Pitchfork Music Festival (ATP/ Don’t Look Back Stage) – on sale already
July 19th @ Berkley Community Theatre- tickets on sale April 1st
July 20th @ Los Angeles Greek Theatre- tickets on sale March 31st
Aug 30th @ London Roundhouse – (3RD SHOW ADDED!)
Aug. 31 and Sept 1 @ The Roundhouse are already sold out.

***more dates to be confirmed

We all know Modest Mouse left its indie roots behind years ago, but even the band's most apologetic fans must have spit-taked when this American Idol-ized car commercial appeared recently (assuming they were drinking something at the time). Check out what one YouTube user describes as "the audiovisual equivalent of diarrhea."

You know what really bothers me? Little kids with mohawks. It's not the kids' fault; it's the parents (or more specifically, their self-satisfied hipster sensibilities) that are to blame. Do you really think some 4-year old is listening to the Exploited and then says, "Mommy, I want a mohawk"? Never happens. But I digress.


Mohawks in general absolutely rule, and for confirmation of this fact, look no further that this mugshot of one Miss Clifford. She was stopped recently for a DUI, and according to the report, her mohawk is so freaking high, she had to to open the sunroof to accomodate it. She is definitely full-time.

This advertisement for Los Angeles based The Bastard Fairies is pretty fantastic. This 8 year-old goes off harder than most educated adults could giving us hope for the future.

Somehow, one of the hardest working men in music finds time for regular blog posts and video diaries. ?uestlove, drummer for the ever-touring Roots, is tabbed as musical director for all sorts of jump-offs, from Jay-Z's MTV Unplugged to last week's NAACP Awards, for which the Philly rap group played a tribute to NAACP honoree Bono. After the event, ?uestlove posted this video diary, in which he recounts his brief interaction with LL Cool J before the show. He takes a bit to get to the punchline, but it's worth the wait.

Enjoy an interpretation of Slayer's "Angel of Death' by Brave Sir Garrick and Cheeky Dave.

Bonnaroo is so spendy for the same old bands you can see all summer everywhere that they are now offering tickets in two installment payments of  $144.10 at purchase and $107.25 in April.  Wow...that's like more than $100 total! 

Hurry! You only have until Fri. March 9th to order. Or you can just go to Ozzfest. That is free and it will be pretty easy to get what you paid for.

Some people like to make fun of the '80s, dismissing the era as a cheesy decade mostly notable for hair bands, Member's Only jackets, and A.I.D.S.

The thing is, it was actually a crazy good time for culture, with innovations like rap music, hardcore music, proto-indie rock music, The A-Team, home video game systems, and cable TV. The '80s also had those awesome gigantic cell phones, and you could still see (real) bare breasts in most mainstream American comedies.

Celebrities were still a big deal back then, but you had to actually be somewhat cool to be famous, unlike today where it's like "yo, I do mash-ups on my ipod, check me out!"

This picture pretty much sums it all up:

This anti-drug music video is like the holy grail of 80s artifacts for several reasons. Where else can you catch Bobby and Whitney telling folks not to use drugs?

I have no idea what bored, affluent suburban kids are up to these days, but according to WDAZ Channel 8 News they are wearing tight black clothes and cutting themselves. Emo has become one of the most misunderstood fads since hippie, punk, or chubby chasing, and ill-informed news reports like this are hurting these kids much more than their bad taste in music. Check out the video--it references mostly satirical, emo-bashing sites, and uses the mocking and hilarious "I Must Be Emo" song as an audio bed. Parents and cops just don't understand.


Don't fret, emo kids--you'll go to college soon and discover Sonic Youth and all will be better. For now, just don't cut yourself.

Here is a sneak peek at QOSTA working on their new album "Era Vulgaris" due next June featuring Trent Reznor, Billy Gibbons and a lot of other mucky-mucks.