In a loving re-evaluation penned last year, our own Mark Richardson called Red Red Meat's third album, 1995's Bunny Gets Paid, "one of the best pure rock albums of the 1990s, though it's not exactly pure." Listening to the album now, its nervy multitudes pour forth; it's grunge, it's folk, it's country, it's blues, it's hushed, it's blaring, it'...

1990s will release their second album March 23, the band have announced.

-- We all know Lil Wayne has his own incredible sports blog on ESPN's website, where he talks about everything from the Dallas Cowboys to Manny Ramirez to 1990s alt-rockers Semisonic ("Closing Time" is his dream closing pitcher song). And now he's guested on ESPN's pigskin chat show 1st and 10-- watch the entire episode here. Personal highlight:...

So this is the New Year: Like the "Y2K-type bug" that hit thousands of Microsoft Zune players as the ball dropped in Times Square, the idea of a track teaming Eminem with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent feels, well, strangely familiar. And, speaking of balls, here's Slim Shady talking about his again. We actually heard a portion of this song last month, whe...

Like many Pitchfork readers-- guessing here-- I'm not too terribly familiar with Maroon 5 catalogue outside of a couple of the big radio hits. What I've heard, anyway, strikes me as being pretty decent as far as these corporate rock bands go, and Adam Levine at least has a voice completely distinct from all the gruff, throaty losers who sprang u...