WFMU is one of the best radio stations on the air today and the Best Show is, uh, one of the best shows on the station. On April 1st, the show got even better for Herbie Shellenberger (the guy with the V-neck sweater on) of the excellent Philly indie-pop group Brown Recluse Sings - Tom […]

Like a lot of punk rockers, cassette tapes ruled my life in the 80’s and early 90’s. I didn’t have a record player and I didn’t get a cd player until a while after they were readily available. I relied on cassettes - be they legitimate releases or dubs of vinyl records or mixtapes or, […]

Yeah, I know that there is a writers strike going on and all that but the kids need their mathed out tech metal-hardcore fix.
Crazily, Conan O’Brien is happy to oblige the metalcore masses - New Jersey’s Dillinger Escape Plan are slated to be the musical guest on tonights Late Night with Conan O’Brien.  Is this the first […]

Giant Robot - the fanzine dedicated to covering Asian and Asian-American pop culture - has hit issue FIFTY! That’s a Godzilla-like accomplishment. And in this issue they interview our friends.

Princeton University’s WPRB is one of (if not THEE) best college radio stations in the entire country. Recently, the student senior board and the station’s Board of Trustees decided that a community-based solution centering on a membership drive was needed to strengthen the station’s future. YIKES!

Usually I hold off on weekend picks until tomorrow (actually, lately I’ve held off completely and have been chilling out at the beach on Fridays) but every once in a while a show comes around that looks so fun that I feel I would be a jerk if I didn’t mention it earlier. This, […]

Being the Pizza Nazi that I am, a trip to the Jersey Shore is never complete with out a stop at Ocean City’s “World Famous” Mack and Manco Pizza. After a full day of frying my skin and being pummeled by Dirty Jerz’s righteous waves nothing quite caps a trip to the shore better than […]