"There are more love songs than anything else," Frank Zappa once pointed out. "If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another."
Here's a fun video from the folks at Reason.tv looking at 30 years of censorial congressional buffoonery on music, movies, TV, and video games. Be sur...
This week our playlist includes music by Paul Westerberg, Carl & Dennis Wilson, Eddie Vedder, Benny Spellman, Tom Waits and more.
It's been a terrific month for mining new music. With the holidays around the corner, here are some early suggestions for music very much worth sharing with friends, lovers, bosses, and family.
This is gonna be about exercising your right to vote. And it is going to be about Frank Zappa -- maybe some stuff you didn't know about either subject but might, given the fast approaching Day of Destiny for our next four years, be of interest to you.
The Flobots drop a new video exclusive, "Circle In The Square," that is probably their biggest statement song yet. "The 'Circle In The Square' is a reference to many things," says Jonny 5 of Flobots.
WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL, A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present at the Annenberg Space for Photography, captures the energy, intoxication, rebellion and yes, magic of the rock and roll world.
Today we're told that the Occupy movement is too idealistic, too naïve. Naïve? Try Havel's words if you want naïve: "May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred."
Although it seems that Paul Simon has been on the road frequently over the last few years, his latest tour seems much more date-packed as he heralds his latest and one of the best albums of his career, So Beautiful Or So What.
"I've made a lot of records because that's what I do, and I've listened to a lot of records, and I have to tell you the truth--it wouldn't have mattered if The Beatles had recorded "A Hard Day's Night" on Silly Putty. It would have sounded good."
Did you know that Alicia Keys graduated high school at 16? Or that Chris Martin has a degree in classics? Check out our slide show of the smartest...
Steve Vai and Berklee are trying to set a record in Guinness by attempting to teach as many guitarists online as possible within a single lesson.
This week, we feature music by Christina Aguilera, Tom Waits, Jim Morrison, Spike Jones, and more.
"Among other things I do," says the British musician, "I'm the music director of an organization called TED or Technology, Education and Design. That's an annual get together of people sort of figuring out how to save the planet."
Dweezil Zappa has a new live record out titled Return of the Son of.... It isn't exactly a Frank Zappa greatest hits album, so here's what Dweezil was going for with the selections on this project.
A new novel hits the bookshelves in Vienna, and the Austrian television network ORF interviews the author. Try getting a novelist interviewed on the evening news in America.
The Internet is breaking down the invisible boundaries between the art world and mass culture; influence knows no boundaries.
With the advent the Internet and new technology, it's now possible for more experimentation at a less expensive rate to hear what it is the guy with the checkbook thinks you are doing.
Watching Tom DeLay disgrace himself and the United States Congress over the years, I distinctly remember thinking, "Sure, he's ethically challenged, but can he dance?"
Envision powerful and tasteful low-end, percussively intelligent, moving and sweeping in the landscape while strings and voices grace the surface.
"I wanted to create a video that actually represented Third Eye Blind," says Stephan Jenkins, lead singer and songwriter for Third Eye Blind.
Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.
Listen up, M.I.A. Lesson #1 in naming your rocker or rapper baby is that you can never choose a regular old first name.
