Driving to the Sasquatch! Festival on Thursday I opted to skip out on I-90 from Seattle and instead drive way up north and take Route 2. It still gets you where you’re going, but the traffic-congested two-and-a-half hour trip you get with 90 becomes an isolated six-hour journey if you choose Rt. 2. It’s completely [...]

Last year, the Los Angeles shoegaze band IO Echo released their self-titled debut EP, and two weeks ago, they went extra-hard at SXSW. I somehow managed to accidentally catch their swooshing, mystery-drenched live show twice, by accident both times. Next week, they’ll release their proper debut album Ministry Of Love. And right now, yo...

There’s an old bit of rock apocrypha — since refuted — that goes a little something like this: On the eve of the two-and-a-half-year Use Your Illusion tour in 1991, Axl Rose gathered the other members of Guns N’ Roses, and threatened to quit the band if they didn’t sign over to him all rights [...]

(Reuters) - Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber with his hordes of fans known of Beliebers became the King of Twitter on Tuesday, topping fellow pop star Lady Gaga as the user with the most followers. Data from TwitterCounter.com showed that the 18-year-old Canadian singer jumped into the lead with 33.33 million followers, topping Lady Gaga's...

The people at Moog have just introduced a new handcrafted synth that they’ve unfortunately decided to call the Sub Phatty. Fortunately, though, they let Flying Lotus get his hands on the thing before anything else, and he used it to make a minute-and-a-half drone-squelch freakout called “Such A Square.” In turn, the...