On the eve of a trip to Australia, Dean and Randy from No Age threw a matinee house party at scene institution the Smell, inviting six bands and a sold-out crowd to come over for some blissed out punk and noise and pancakes. Figuring this lineup was too good to miss -- including Smell stalwarts Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, and the rising Wavves -- we ...

Toyota Yaris and Urban Outfitters may be running the Free Yr Radio campaign due to a good-hearted commitment to underground radio, or they may just be doing it to look cool. OK, whatever, maybe they just want to look cool.But when those two gigantic companies are teaming up to bring us a compilation of new songs from bands we like and then sell...

When Scott posted about last night's Grammy nominations reveal, he mentioned Radiohead and Lil Wayne got nods for Album of the Year, Katy Perry was snubbed for Best New Artist, No Age got a surprise nomination, and that Foo Fighters performed Carly Simon's "You're So Vain." He was right: The Foo Fighters did cover Carly Simon. It sounds like you...

Antony and the Johnsons, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman, No Age, Goblin Cock (featuring Pinback's Rob Crow), and Unicorns offshoot Clues lead the initial lineup charge for 2009's Noise Pop Festival, exploding all over San Francisco February 24-March 1.In addition to these early confirmations, Noise Pop will host a film festival featuring...

The RSVP list for No Age's show at Santo's Party House is closed, but after giving away a pair of last minute tix earlier this week we saw that there's still a bunch of you that want in. So we're gonna give away one more even-laster-minute pair of tix to a commenter on this post. Just post one indicating your interest from your user profile (req...