Indie Icon Juliana Hatfield Works For Hire

Influential indie rock chick Juliana Hatfield is writing songs for you - for $1,000.  She is allowing 20 people to pay the $1,000 as that would give her the time to finish the songs.  She is also giving one song away to anyone that enters their name in the lottery.  To enter, simply email her at yeolderecords@earthlink.net and put "free lottery...

Top 15 Worldwide Albums of All-Time

  I just randomly found this list and I thought I would post it.  Here are the Top 15 Worldwide Albums of All-Time (according to sales): 1.  Michael Jackson   Thriller (1982) - 110 million albums sold 2.  AC/DC  Back In Black (1980) - 49 million 3.  Pink Floyd  The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) - 45 million  (This...

"I Swear We Fell In Love But Not The First Time"

The title of this post comes from the third single from Silversun Pickups album Swoon called The Royal We (watch the new video above).  The song is already at #12 on the Alt Rock Singles chart.  The first single Panic Switch hit #1 and the second single Substitution peaked at #17 (source:  Wikipedia.org). I picked The Royal We as one of my...

10 Best $5 Albums on Amazon.com for May 2010

You can purchase all the albums below for only $5 on Amazon.com through May 2010: 1.  She & Him - Volume 2 2.  30 Seconds To Mars - This Is War  3.  Spoon - Kill The Moonlight 4.  Poison - Best Of - In honor of Bret Michaels! 5.  Straylight Run - The Needle The Space 6.  The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America 7. ...

Top 10 Worst Platinum Albums of All Time

Spike.com released their Top 10 Worst Platinum Albums of All Time.  Here are the results: 1.  Billy Ray Cyrus   Some Gave All  (20 million copies sold) - I have a feeling his daughter Miley could make this list in the near future. 2.  Baha Men  Who Let The Dawgs Out  (1.7 million) - I'm sure there were worse one-hit...

Valley Lodge Loves All-Male Nude Furniture

NYC power-pop band Valley Lodge released their video for their song All Of My Loving in late 2009.  Yeah, it's been out there for a few months but this video is a must-see - that is if you're into all-nude male furniture (including a toilet...gross). The video was directed by Dave&Rory. You can listen to more of Valley Lodge on their MySpa...

HEALTH "We Are Water" Video is Gross Yet Engrossing

I posted about this video a few weeks ago on my Facebook account because this music video is something to talk about.  It is very graphic and short but this video doesn't waste any time capturing the power of the music or your attention. Eric Wareheim, who was born in Philadelphia, directed the video and he's work includes videos for MGMT, Ben Folds...

Better Late Than Never....

So it's been a few months since I posted but here is the remaining top albums of 2009: 1.  Silversun Pickups  Swoon - By far, the best album of 2009.  The album was nominated for a Grammy in 2010 and has sold close to 250,000 copies.  The album is currently on it's 3rd single called The Royal We (which is my favorite song on the album). ...