First Spoils of Nine Inch Nails Leak Online

The first results of what fans are doing with the 405 gigabytes of concert footage leaked by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is slowly finding its way to the web. With footage from three different concerts, each with multiple camera angles and whatnot, its taking a little while to get a finished product, but [...]

Album A Day: Dropkick Murphys – The Warrior’s Code

My friend Justin gave me almost the entire Dropkick Murphys catalog (including the Street Dogs record) earlier in this year, and for various reasons it has gone largely unlistened to (although I thoroughly enjoyed the aforementioned Street Dogs). For reasons that I cannot explain, today felt like a good day for some Dropkick. The Warrior’s [...]

Album A Day: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog Soundtrack

So my original plot for today’s album is gonna come later this week. My roomate RJ was playing this and I had to jump in and sing along. I’ll go back to “real” music tomorrow…just needed a small mulligan for today. Joss Whedon, the brain behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and the forthcoming Dollhouse [...]

Album A Day: Familiar 48 – Wonderful Nothing

Wait, don’t tell me. You have no idea who Familiar 48 are. It’s OK. Odds are nobody outside of the immediate Philadelphia area has. Wonderful Nothing, their only album, came out in 2002 to virtually no critical acclaim and a mild local radio hit in “The Question”. But where Familiar 48 may falter in name-recognition, [...]

Album A Day: Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

A few months ago Pretty Much Amazing wrote a piece about why certain rappers are “acceptable” with the traditionally rock and pop crowd, while others are categorically panned. It basically came down to the fact that much in the same way those folks listen to Radiohead or *insert trendy indie band du jour here* so [...]

Moment of Zen: Angst-laden Rap Music FTW

Those joining VLM having been with the site for awhile will recognize the Moment of Zen as the new incarnation of what was once the Weekend WTF (those who watch The Daily Show will also be familiar with the concept). In the future it will posted earlier than it was today, but between watching WALL-E [...]

Album A Day: Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns

In any other year that didn’t feature Coldplay hitting a grand slam in Viva La Vida and Keane…well, Keane being Diet Coldplay (yep, I went there), Snow Patrol would be inescapable. A Hundred Million Suns is a huge, grandiose record that would dwarf even Bono. The opening atmospheric sounds of “If There’s A Rocket Tie [...]

So What Are You Into These Days, TJ?

Why, I’m glad you asked! It may be a little presumptuous of me to assume you’re all interested in what I’m listening to, reading, and watching at this moment, so on one hand I hesitated to just dive into something like that. But at the same time, I write a freakin’ music blog, where clearly [...]

Album A Day: Nine Inch Nails – The Slip

In honor of Nine Inch Nails’ release of 400 GB of video footage yesterday, I’m listening to their most recent record, 2008′s The Slip today. I was considering playing the bootleg I have of their show at Woodstock ’94, but I’m saving that for an eventual week of live shows. The Slip was a stellar [...]

Are We Days Away From New Nine Inch Nails??? [UPDATED]

UPDATE 01.07.09 10:25PM: Trent Reznor and Rob Sheridan have unveiled 405 GB worth of concert footage from three December shows during the Lights in the Sky tour. The footage is available in 3 torrents (one for each concert) and at present is only available as pure, raw footage. Trent and Rob in their infinite wisdom [...]