Upon hearing D.C. legend Chuck Brown was battling pneumonia two weeks ago, the thought of the “Godfather of Go-Go” not making it was always in the back of my mind. [...]

Longtime Beastie Boys member and group co-founder Adam Yauch – aka MCA – died today at age 47. Russell Simmons’ GlobalGrind.com first broke the news and it’s still not clear [...]

Yesterday, we published Volume 1 of IRC’s Record Store Day 2012 recap coverage, featuring digital versions of limited edition vinyls from The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips with Bon Iver, Wilco, Beach House, J. Mascis with Built to Spill’s Brett Nelson, Dirty Projectors, Collective">Animal Collective, and Real Estate. Just as with Vol. 1 - which [...]

“How do you like your blue eyed boy, Mr. Death?” read the E.E. Cummings quote that tattooed Harry Crews’ right bicep. I suppose he got his answer. Crews died last week; for those of us who followed his work it’s quite a loss. National obits have alternately likened the ‘literary outlaw’ to Bukowski and Hunter [...]

Obits – You Gotta Lose

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 LESLIE AND THE LYS @ KNITTING FACTORY 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211 $14, 7PM Leslie and the Lys aren't your typical pop or indie act, but that's what makes them so much fun. Justice @ Terminal 5 Alan Braxe @ Brooklyn Bowl Motive & Zula @ Cameo Gallery Skaters @ Tribeca Grand Hotel Obits, Fists, & Rattle @ Cake Shop Oneida & Rhys Chatham @ Merkin Concert Hall The Dearloves, deVries, & Forts @ Glasslands Megafaun & William Tyler @ Highline Ballroom Joseph Arthur & Joan As Police Woman @ City Winery Superhuman Happiness, Cyro Baptista, & EMEFE @ Littlefield Lee Fields and The Expressions @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ...

Scooby, left, with co-host and long-time friend, Dolewite February 2012 may go down as the worst Black History Month on record. The race – and more specifically, the musical side [...]

Scooby, left, with co-host and long-time friend, Dolewite February 2012 may go down as the worst Black History Month on record. The race – and more specifically, the musical side [...]

Iconic singer Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, her publicist Kristen Foster confirmed to CNN. The shocker comes on [...]

Hot Snakes have unveiled a full tour to warm up for their upcoming appearance at Metallica 's Orion Music + More . The band, which notably features members of Drive Like Jehu , Rocket From The Crypt , The Night Marchers , Obits and many more, split up in 2005 but reunited for ATP and Fun Fun Fun Fest last year.

New York rock band Obits show off new drummer Alexis Fleisig in their new video for "Killer", from their album Moody, Standard and Poor.

I’m not going to pretend like I knew who Alori Joh was yesterday. I’m not going to pretend like I listened to her The Love Religion album from last November. [...]

Au revoir, to “Soul Train” creator Don Corneilus, who made his exit from this cruel world earlier this morning. While “Soul Train”‘s status as the the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated program in television history will no doubt be cited in Don’s obits, it was his star turn as independent label magnate Mo Fuzz in [...]

According to TMZ, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, 75, was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, California home. Early reports indicate he suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the [...]

Consequence of Sound has the full deets… Today, the festival revealed the rest of its 2012 bill and new highlights include Refused, Rufus Wainwright, Beirut, Chavez, The Pop Group, Atlas Sound, Laura Marling, Sharon Van Etten, The Rapture, Wavves, Danny Brown, Black Lips, Lee Ranaldo, Hype Williams, Kings of Convenience, Archers of Loaf, Dirty Three, The Wedding Present (performing Seamonsters) Girls, Real Estate, The War on Drugs, Saint Etienne, Richard Hawley, Iceage, Japandroids, Thee Oh Sees, Death Grips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Friends, Dirty Beaches, Lower Dens, The Field, Field Music, and Obits. Visit our Festival Outlook to see the complete ...