-- According to MTV, Lil Wayne has pushed back the release of his terrible-idea rock album Rebirth (which my Pitchfork News colleague Ryan Dombal inexplicably believes will be good) to May 19. Here's hoping he just goes ahead and pushes it back to Never.-- Next month, button-cute axe-wrecker Marnie Stern will tour the U.S., so here's your cha...

Photo by Alicia J. RoseIt's never a bad idea to go see the Thermals. Five years ago, I saw the Portland ragers play a converted auto body shop in Baltimore with the Hold Steady opening, and they wrecked. They're playing slightly larger venues these days, but it's safe to say that they will bring same bouncing-off-walls basement-punk energy and a...

Dave Matthews! Why do you keep making it so hard to hate you? You signed My Morning Jacket, reissued Exile in Guyville, put out In Rainbows, and now this. My high school self just can't deal with this cognitive dissonance! Are you trying to make me abandon my adolescent principles or something? Trying to make me open my mind to the idea that the...

The Hold Steady have announced a documentary on DVD and their first-ever live album, set to be released on April 7.

(Photo from last year's Rachael Ray SXSW party by Tyler Grisham)Last year, TV chef Rachael Ray bugged a whole lot of people out by throwing a party at the annual Austin indie feeding frenzy South by Southwest, and then by booking the Holy Fuck to play it. This forced us to consider the inevitability of Rachael Ray saying or thinking the words ...