Paul MacInnes is back, back, back, in the presenting chair and joining him for this week's pod are the eccentric indie-pop trio the Wave Pictures and the angry post-punkers XX Teens.

For 16 days in September, the 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music–Los Angeles will present nearly a thousand artists performing in 41 sacred events of music and movement throughout Los Angeles, crossing neighborhoods and cultural, ...

Jeffrey Lewis nicely recounts the experiment of a band using extreme improvisational methods to write music - no one or two identifiable composers, but participation by all band members ("Communist Songwriting (Sort Of)," August 19). ...

Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- That adorable, spunky, and thoroughly dirty-minded born performer Colleen finally makes an appearance on YouTube, singing a very 21st century kinda blues: "The Dirty Keywords Search Song. ...

This week, thanks to The Rocker, we can add another fictional band to the long list of music groups created solely for the movies. They’re called Vesuvius, and they’re an ‘80s hair band with a hit song titled “Promised Land. ...

Reviews were unusually violent and one of the critics suggested putting me in an asylum and keeping music paper out of my reach. Only six years later, under Oscar Fried’s direction, it became a great success, and since that time has not ...

Using the guitar or drumkit peripherals (or, if you're crazy so inclined, the Wiimote and Nunchuck for "air drumming") the mode lets you and a friend jam in a variety of music genres, laying down single notes, chords, and beats as you ...

Facebook is now the largest social network in the world. But they continue to trail MySpace by a massive 36 million users in the US, and at current growth rates it will take them 18 years to overtake them. Most of Facebook's growth is ...

Conducting Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony in Tskhinvali last night was a sublime political gesture from the patriotic Gergiev.

The music DJ is responsible for knowing what music he/she has on his/her system, where it is located and they should be able to access any particular song, quickly, when needed or asked. The DJ is not just responsible for playing good ...