This weekend is the All Points West festival, just a short ferry ride from Manhattan. The festival kicked off last night with Jay-Z as the headliner, who was a last-minute replacement for The Beastie Boys, who were forced to withdraw when Adam “MCA” Yauch was diagnosed with cancer. Jay-Z began his set with a tribute […]
For those of us lucky enough to be in Denmark tihs July (cough cough, Saundrah, I'm looking your way!), the lineup for the Roskilde Festival is pretty damn amazing. Where else but Denmark would Grinderman, Jay-Z, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Slayer, and Neil Young share top billing (and yeah, Judas Priest too)? That is insanity. Sweet, […]
Sometimes I think it takes me waaay too long to come up with my Top 20 albums of a given year. There are a lot of internal debates and arguments that really have no right answer. Really, you reach a point where all the albums are good but how to rank them gets to be […]
For all the wailing and gnashing of teeth on TIG about the ever-earlier return of Christmas Holiday music, it doesn't seem to be the view of the mainstream public. In fact, just perusing the current Billboard Top 100 albums, you can find the following albums (all marked as "gaining"): #6 Josh Groban: Noel #28 Mannheim Steamroller: […]
I know you've all been waiting for it and here it is: MTV has announced the nominees for its annual suck-up-fest, the Video Music Awards! Rather than post them all here, I'll let you visit the slick MTV website that caused my browser to be unhappy, but I'll make a few comments for my… er… […]
Ok, well, I don't really have a good excuse for this one. None at all. I tried to think of one mostly based on my somewhat disturbing obsession with Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'", but how does that explain the fact that I have this bordering-on-horrific mashup of the aforementioned song and (gulp) Linkin Park? It doesn't […]
