Here is my review of Comedown Machine, the latest album from The Strokes:   What? ** Here is my track-by-track breakdown of the album: 1. “Tap Out” – What? 2[...]

Odd Future makes rap music for people who hate rap music. Odd Future makes soundtracks for people who fantasize about walking into an Apple store in slow motion. Odd Future is a Yo[...]

I saw him in Los Angeles one day. He was just another older guy with thinning hair and an awesome gray ZZ Top-style beard. If you didn’t know who he was, you might surmise that he [...]

I’m standing in a packed venue in Echo Park, watching a band called Kitten, and I am annoyed. I am annoyed because the band in front of me, which consists of an eighteen-year-old g[...]

 “This is a brand-new song. This is a premiere, I guess. I’d like to dedicate this to Christiano’s Restaurant. This is called, uh, ‘Scenes From an Italian Restaurant.’” These words[...]

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It has become de rigueur to add a caveat to any year-end Top 10 albums list – something akin to, “Now, this isn’t necessarily the best of the year; these are only my favorites of t[...]

In a new series exclusive to FlipCollective.com, noted music historian Tom Dinard uncovers, through hours of interviews with the artist, the meaning of the oft-misunderstood prose [...]

The following is an excerpt from Hank Layton’s piece for Cartel III (Fall, 2012), which can be purchased for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle e-book or as a PDF. *** When it comes t[...]

Magic Johnson has AIDS and I am on several hits of high powered blotter acid. *** I have just witnessed multiple adult male people attacking one another in complex, swinging-gate b[...]