Moment of Zen: Adam Lambert, Minus The Glam, Is Actually Pretty Good

EDIT: Love and Logic just put the “Whataya Want From Me” cover on iTunes! Buy the track here. A commenter last week sent me a link to a video of a band called Love and Logic covering Adam Lambert’s current hit “Whataya Want From Me”. Love and Logic’s version strips out the bombast and bravado [...]

Adventures in Top 40 Radio Meets The Airwaves in St. Louis

Upon realizing that thus far my adventures in top 40 radio have stuck to the east coast, I felt that it was time to spread our wings and see what the rest of the country was listening to. On the one hand, it’s unlikely that the music will be that much different, but at the [...]

AC/DC Providing Soundtrack to Iron Man 2

I can’t really speak for the rest of America, but I’m going to anyway right now: Iron Man 2 is the most anticipated movie of 2010. The first one was unbelievably good and a benchmark to which other comic book movies should strive to be measured by. I have nothing but high hopes for the [...]

Monday Night Roundup: Same Roundup, New Night

As previously announced, the Tuesday Night Roundup has moved to Monday nights, hence the title of this here post. You all know the game at this point, so let’s go ahead and dive in. You’ll notice more video in place of where audio files might have been in the past. =We Are The Fallen, the [...]

An Announcement From Viva La Mainstream

Hey all, Everybody relax, this isn’t a “We’re closing up shop” message. So if you follow my twitter, or have been keeping track in general, you heard that I’ve recently been hit with a couple of DMCA notifications in the last week, primarily centered on my Vampire Weekend and Spoon reviews. WordPress has threatened that [...]

Moment of Zen: Gorillas + Drums + British TV Commercial = Win

My brother showed me this ad a few weeks ago, and it’d been sitting, dying to be featured on this site until right now. It’s a British commercial for Cadbury eggs, and if you’re wondering what that has to do with drumming gorillas, stop now. And here it is, your Moment of Zen: Phil Collins [...]

Adventures in Top 40 Ponders The Meaning of ‘Alternative’

For this week’s installment of the Adventures in Top 40 we’re going to veer away from the vapid black hole of the current Top 40 and set our sights on another sector of modern radio; the alternative rock format. By this point trying to describe the alternative music genre is as fruitless as trying to [...]

Rapid Fire Reviews

Here in what passes for my real life, we’re in the midst of what’s known as “syllabus week”, which is generally the first week of classes where professors hand out their syllabus and students get a sense for what the coming weeks and months will hold. While it is hardly the busiest week of the [...]

OK Go Explain Music Video Embed Debate

If you’ve never heard an OK Go album, you probably at least have seen one of their videos; probably this one, for “Here It Goes Again”. It’s kind of become OK Go’s trademark to do goofy, do-it-yourself videos to promote their music, and let the YouTube hits accumulate. And in support of Of The Blue [...]

Monday Night Roundup: Amanda Palmer, U2

If you’ve been wondering what became of the Tuesday Night Roundup, it went on a bit of a hiatus for the holidays. As per changes in my schedule in real life, the segment is now moving to Monday nights (or Tuesday mornings, as the case might be). So here comes the first, albeit abbreviated, installment [...]