Yeah, I know. It's been awhile. I'm taking a hiatus from rocknrollscientist. Work's been busy, and therefore I can't update ...

This week, I found myself at two art museums. I didn't mean to. On Thursday night, I went downtown for a couple of drinks after work. Th...

More and more I'm hearing cool underappreciated music in advertising and film soundtracks. When discussing with friends, they think it...

I know. It's been awhile since you've seen anything new in this space. The past two weeks have been spent transitioning from a job I...

I have something special, kids. Two tracks off the new Who album. It's called Endless Wire , and it comes out on Halloween. Check it out...

I can't say enough good things about this band Locksley. Last week I wrote a little about 'em. It's like if late '60s garage...

A little while ago I wrote about the new Jeremy Enigk solo album. Well, now he's on tour with Cursive for the last leg of their Happy Ho...

I've got some links to new music that you're gonna want to check out: Come Down from 120 Days . Swedish Krautrock if you can believ...

Click that picture up there. Listen to the song "Why Not Me." Do it. Right now. What are you thinking? Supergrass? The Kinks? The ...

So I've been told... DJ Shadow is ready to bless the US not just with two turntables and a microphone but with a full ten piece band! F...

Don't be a douchebag and try to dismiss this as 'skater rap', because even you don't know what that means. This summer, Lup...

I had high hopes for this record. When I first heard a couple tracks, I thought it sounded like this Gang of Four/Talking Heads on meth/Maga...

It's been a few weeks now, and I've been listening to this CD on and off, and I really like it. Singer-songwriter-ish vocals and ly...

Last Wednesday night, I was sitting at the bar at the Garden Bowl in Midtown Detroit. I was waiting for the Terrible Twos to go onstage upst...

I think it was sometime before the movie Goodwill Hunting made Elliott Smith an indie-folk god when a million and one of my female friends w...

You like Broken Social Scene, right? How about Metric? You know them, they're the Canadians doing Pretenders/Blondie style new wave. We...

Hey, check out a new single from Razorlight called " America ." Then go here to check out their MySpace page.

I remember back in 1998, I was on college radio (WSGR-FM) and fervently following everything that went on with Grand Royal Records. Not jus...

The Nice Boys are from Portland, Oregon. They sprang from the ashes of the tragically-cut-short power pop/punk band The Exploding Hearts. A...

There's something new coming out of Southend, UK. Something menacing, the likes of which hasn't been seen since The Meteors terrori...

I'm a fan of Madlib and anything he does, so when I was reading about two new records that he released on his label Stones Throw, I got...

What if Dean Wareham of Luna (and Galaxie 500) had fronted The Verve instead of Richard Ashcroft? It would probably sound like the Seattle q...

Sometime in the late '90s, industrial music broke. It fell apart. What was once either harsh metal disco or very stark electro gave way ...

Tonight I attended a show at St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit. This is the full title of the show: Little Steven's Underground Garage Pr...

Glasgow's El Presidente have something for you. It's a slice of T Rex glam tempered with some Scissor Sisters disco style. Check out...

Your favorite Siouxsie Sioux/Pretenders revivalists Monsters Are Waiting are on tour with She Wants Revenge and Pretty Girls Make Graves. No...

Years ago, the band Slint released an album with a song on it called "O Captain, My Captain." Ever since then, countless bands wit...

This is what I love about the alt-country genre, you can be folk and country and poppily atmospheric and it all fits. I guess I really don...

So many different things come to mind when I hear this four-piece from Leeds (UK). Note that there should be an upside down exclamation poin...

Through a totally chance occurance, a friend of mine posted a bulletin on MySpace a few days ago about something I can't believe I didn...

I know I've mentioned Gawker blogs (Gawker, Consumerist, Wonkette, Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Jalopnik, et al) before here on this blog. Just no...