“Once I start, I cannot stop myself.” No kidding. That lyric from “Discipline,” a hard but still live-sounding electro-rocker from The Slip — Nine Inch Nails’ second release of the year (and fourth in the last two years, if you count that Year Zero remix album) — sounds typically self-loathing, but leave it to Trent Reznor...
Read Full StoryBlah blah blah Web 2.0. When is all this user-generated talk going to turn into action? As soon as you hit this link to viral animation startup JibJab’s latest project, which lets you put your ...
When Apple introduced the MacBook Air and its lack of a CD/DVD drive, a lot of people snorted with derision. With the amount of free streaming video content on the web swelling exponentially, the ...
If there’s one thing we all hate, it’s when technology companies try to make you pay for something twice. Rogers’ latest music phones are designed to push you towards buying their ringtones —?even...
Indie kids reared in the ‘90s, rejoice! Matador Records’ Intended Play series of promo mixes, a source of advance salivation since 1997, has moved online. In lieu of stealing the new Matmos (pictured) and Shearwater...
In the ‘80s, MTV was blamed for turning young people into zombies. (And later, harvesting them for reality shows.) Pitchfork.tv — the infamous music webzine’s spanking new video site launching Monday, April 7 ...
The cash-in comeback is such a cliché that it’s hard to believe an act would return after an extended absence for any reason other than money. Portishead probably haven’t run out of money in the 11 years since their...
During South By Southwest, it’s hard to decide whether to hoover up all the streamable goodies or, if the whole What I Did On My Summer Vacation vibe bores you to tears, stop reading blogs entirely. Instead of your ...
Looking at WFMU DJ Scott Williams’ tribute to the ultimate in sour expressions, the Guitar Face, rocking out isn’t always the ecstatic experience non-axe-wielders imagine it to be. Young and old, black and white, men ...
Are you sick of In Rainbows yet? No? Well if you think you might eventually get that way, you’ll want to download Amplive’s much-delayed remixes of Radiohead’s last album just in case, before they and their lawyers ...