Before discussing the latest Avengers info and the state of the mutants post-Schism, I thought I’d produce a list of the major category winners of the 2011 Harvey Awards, presented at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con (which, by the way, was ridiculously crowded this year thanks to Stan Lee being the guest of honor). Major winners: [...]

I suppose you could call Don’t Wait Animate (a.k.a. “DWA”) a trip hop or dubstep band, but since I generally hate those genres-and I really enjoyed their latest EP, Overcast Up Concrete Down, I’m not going to classify them as anything other than Indie. The 5-member band from England sounds a little bit like Bloc [...]

I’ll admit it: Most of Alkaline Trio’s stuff leaves me cold.  There’s usually just a few songs per album that I find myself really digging.  That’s why I was so surprised by the first solo album from Dan Andiano, Alkaline Trio’s stalwart bass player. “Hurricane Season” is terrific.  In fact, it reminds me a lot [...]

A little Sunday schoolin’ for ya.  The answer is: God loves the cat the most, fried with soy sauce and served with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Vakill has been around for years–since 1995, to be exact–as part of Chicago’s Molemen collective.  I’ve alwasy thought of him as Chicago’s answer to Raekwon–he tells gritty street stories, with an old school flow and new jack lyrics.  He’s capable of words that have more than two syllables, and has a decent vocab, too, which [...]

“The Best of I Am Lovedrug” is a collection of covers funded buy fans of the band.  It’s also the band’s first full-length album.  It’s quite unusual for a band to introduce itself to the world via the words and music of others, but it’s also a canny way to get internet buzz. The selection [...]

See, it’s not funny that the dummy looks like him.  It’s funny that the dummy looks like her.

Every rap fan knows who Pete Rock is.  The man’s a legend.  He broke as one of the best 1990s major-label rappers, but he’s also produced about a dozen brilliant rap albums (including Common’s The Bitch In Yoo; Ghostface’s Be Easy; and B.I.G.’s first big hit, Juicy). But how many know about Smif-N-Wessun?  They’ve also [...]