I’m really not sure how to evaluate—or classify—Panda Riot’s, “Far & Near.”  The Chicago band’s synthbeat and shoegaze vocals may lull and disarm, but then a song like “When You Said, When I Said,” will cut in with razor guitar lines.  You may remember their awesome cover of MIA’s “Paper Planes” from back in 2008.  [...]

I decided to bust out my weekly musings on superdoings into print and moving media this week, because there’s just so darn much I wanna talk about! Please, give me comments if you like these features—I enjoy writing them, but I know that most of my regular readers come here for music . . . [...]

1.Intro 2.Infinite 3.Gone Again 4.Mixen’ Em Up (feat. Biggie, Big L, Tupac) 5.Warning Shot (Mariah Carey Diss) 6.Whatever 7.Just Dont 8.Lets Get It On (feat. Big Proof) 9.Beef (feat Mos Def, Big Proof, Nas) 10.Big Man Someday (feat. Lil Wayne) [Blend] 11.Jealousy Woes 12.Not Afraid 13.Backstabber 14.What You Gonna Do (feat Dr Dre, Obie Trice) [...]

Don’t get why I’m posting it?  What if I told you it was from the site, “The Art of the Accidental Penis.”  Aaaah, now you get, don’t you? Penis Song-Monty Python http://player.groovebat.com/player.swf BONUS: T.I.: Fuck a Mixtape (link)

Houston Texas’ John Dew is another rapper who wants you to hear his music so bad, he’s wiling to give it away. There’s a lot of guys like these days—I must get ten or twelve submissions a week—so I need quick screen-out factors. But in this case, it was a screen-in factor that got my [...]

Robert Kirkman has established his narrative credibility with The Walking Dead series. It is aptly named, because the book is essentially a very, very long walk through the lives of the survivors of a zombie plague. It has no clear end in sight (other than death), no five-issue story arcs, no predictable characters or cyphers, [...]

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because these EPs are free, they’re not worth having. First, it’s Someone Has Foiled Our Plans—the latest release from The Cloud I’m Under is free. The Cloud I’m Under is actually one dude, a New Yorker who makes synthpop that tastes a little like The Cure and [...]

I think I Love You (David Cassidy)-Paul Westerberg http://player.groovebat.com/player.swf

I teetered on the fence of whether to review Vanguard Villains’ “Brooklyn Demos” for a little while because it didn’t seem new to me. It sounded familiar to a fault: Downtempo songs about longing with strummed guitar and a strong bass-and-drum line. Loud-soft combos. Urgent hooks and choruses. But when I got to closer, “Unexecuted,” [...]

Mr. Brownstone (Guns N Roses “cover”)-K-dot-oh-dot Featuring Johnny Slash (direct dl) http://player.groovebat.com/player.swf K-dot-oh-dot’s new one, Buckwheats, is available free here.  He’s Canadian.  But listen anyway.