The Severed Cortex

Now that anyone can record their own music, there are literally thousands of artists and hundreds of record labels. In addition, iTunes is always making old music available. It's impossible to keep up with one genre of music, let alone all genres. I'l… more »

Just announced today. more »

Actor (and I use that term loosely) Elijah Wood has decided to be a music producer and The Apples In Stereo are his current pet project. Very poppy. They sound a lot like ELO and I'm hoping I get to go see them live Friday. more »

I was listening to Portishead's Dummy yesterday. (Hard to believe this CD is 13 years old. Not hard to believe that it still sounds as fresh as it did then.) Anyway, I wondered what the weird instrument sound on the song Mysterons is. Obviously it's… more »

Four years I've been waiting for this. If you wait for anything that long you'll find when you get it it seems anti-climactic. That's how I sort of felt the first listen through on this. Don't get me wrong, I'm such a huge Shins fan that I was going t… more »

If you had told me that on a night when the Shins were playing at The Pageant I would be attending a hoosier rock and roll show at Sauget's infamous Pops I would have laughed at you. But it's true. My buddy Matt doesn't get a whole lot of chances to a… more »

I'm way more interested in seeing The Thermals although I'm interested in seeing The Hold Steady also. For only $12, it seems like a no brainer. more »

With Steve Swallow on bass and the unbelievable Bill Stewart on drums. We saw them play the early Friday night set the last time they were through here a couple of years ago and they burned it up. more »

It's unfortunate that she will always be remembered as John Coltrane's wife since she was a very good musician herself. She probably felt the same way as my sister did going through high school being known as Drew's little sister. Of course that would… more »