He's gonna point that at me in a matter of hours!Are any of you as excited as I am to see Cheap Trick and Superdrag at The Ryman tonight? You fuckin' better be! If this show doesn't rock, I'll lose all my faith in humanity. The current dead tree edition of the Scene hit the racks today. In it you'll find the following piece I wrote previewing the show:
Once, when speaking of The Velvet Underground, Brian Eno said, "Only 5,000 people ever bought a Velvet Underground album, but every sing
Yesterday, the Village Voice's yearly Pazz and Jop poll results went live. (Remember when D.P.R. was filling out his ballot?) To the shock and amazement of this one guy who lives in Jersey, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion topped the albums chart. If you've been near an Internet in the past year, most of the Top 10 probably won't surprise you much: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Dirty Projectors and so forth. Meanwhile, to the mild shock and bemusement of this critic, Jay-Z's "Empi
