Call it a retcon.  Call it a reboot.  Call it a revamp.  Just don’t call it a comeback.  I asked for your votes a few weeks ago on the writer and/or artist who most “redefined” a character.  The main criterion was that the character had to be someone else’s creation, not their own.  Between e-mail [...]

Looks like I’ll be covering the Counting Crows‘ Travelling Medicine show again this year.  Can’t wait!  They’re touring with Augustana again, and rapper NOTAR and the amazingly fabulous Michael Franti and Spearhead. Last year’s show was amazing–they all took the stage together, jammed and partied on stage, did lots of covers . . . It [...]

Remember this great post about Buffetlibre’s PEACE project?  Well, as a thank you, the team wants readers of BP to have these 5 bonus tracks for free!  The project itself, which is chock full of goodies from all over the world, will be available only until July 12.  Go here for details.  It’s all for [...]

Can it really be possible that Serotonin is just the third album by England’s Mystery Jets?  I guess it is, but it seems like I’ve been listening to them forever.  And I mean that in the best of ways.  Fans of the band’s earlier albums will be satisfied by Serotonin, as they’re still making soaring [...]

Not funny . . . But cool.

// <![CDATA[ // This week, I read the first trade volume of the Power Girl reboot by Gray and Palmiotti (words) and Amanda Conner (art).  I went in to this familiar with the praise the book got, but knowing little else.  I knew Gray by reputation only; had read some gritty, true crime indie work [...]

Passion Pit-tonight tonight (smashing pumpkins cover) Florence and the Machine-Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer cover)

1. DJ Ayres and The Rub team are always reliable for some good stuff.  Now, they’ve got the history of hip hop, volume one, a mixtape, here. 2.  Cover Me has Eels covers! 3.  Fong’s got a wickedly eclectic post that includes Michele Shocked (voice like a f-ing angel) doing Neil Young. 4.  LHB has [...]