SAN FRANCISCOFEATURES: THE DODOS GET BACK TO THE BASICSThe Dodos' Logan Kroeber on trying to create music without external pressures and expectations seeping through, and working with Neko Case on their latest record.
ATLANTAFEATURES: QUICK AND DIRTY: BLACK LIPSAtlanta garage punks go big on their new album with superstar producer Mark Ronson, also make a fan out of Ke$ha.
PORTLANDFEATURES: THE GRAILS: I LED THEE OVERSEASPortland post-rock band Grails finds success in Europe before tackling North America.
CHICAGOFEATURES: WILCO: ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGSWilco's concert DVD proves that the alt-country icons are only getting better with age, which is pretty scary.
LOS ANGELESFEATURES: GARFUNKEL AND OATES SPLASH THEIR COMEDY ALL OVER YOUR FACEKate Micucci, the "Oates" of musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates talks to Soundproof about their new album, the upcoming HBO pilot and what it was like to perform with John Oates
LOS ANGELESFEATURES: NYE: HOLLYWOOD SHITSHOWHunter Daniels, our man in LA, was invited to some fancy shindig featuring local fixture Mickey Avalon on New Year's Eve and felt inspired to write about it. Normally we're not into this kind of debauchery, being a front for a Christian pro-life anti-drug save-the-children-from-the-gays type of organization and all, but we'll run it because he asked nicely.
NEW YORKFEATURES: QUICK AND DIRTY: BRIDGET AND THE SQUARESCurrently in the midst of their first tour, Brooklyn's Bridget and The Squares are ready to do what it takes to succeed, like finally getting their own drum kit.
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
