Fifteen hours after the gates opened at this year’s Austin City Limits music festival, we were witness to the following: giant eyeballs bouncing over and on thousands of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans, a massive ’90s party-rock dance-a-thon at the roadside smoking accessories stand, a hundreds-deep impatient mob overpowering a single traffic cop… and oh yeah, a hell of a lot of fantastic music. Full Article »

Last month, I had a few not entirely coherent things to say about the leaked cuts from Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits tribute album, Anywhere I Lay My Head. And ultimately, I had no idea what to make of it.

So the album dropped on Tuesday, and while I had it in hand last weekend, I had to wait through a brief addiction to the new Death Cab For Cutie before I could get around to listening to it in its entirety to try and get a better idea of what the fuck to file it under.

Read on for our honest track-by-track review. Full Article »