Chris Weingarten, at the Voice, chatting with Brooklyn rap duo Super Chron Flight Brothers:
My editor is dying to know why you called this track “Reggie Miller.”
Well, it works on a surface level because when I think of Reggie Miller, the Indiana Pacers guard, I think of the early ’90s but really it’s a marijuana [...]

So this is why Indy is so loath to sign on to the smoking ban:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Forget New York, Los Angeles, or even Miami, Indianapolis is the most sexually satisfied city in the United States, according to a new report.
The Indiana city is followed by Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, and [...]

I’m not a law student, but nonetheless, it’s nice to see that an Indy resident actually read and understood what I was trying to do in this review. I only got 3 emails from people honestly aghast that I’d report others saying anything negative about my hometown, but they still sorta hurt, y’know?  Sorry [...]

My own hometown newspaper, in 1980. It’s funny how much hasn’t changed: This basic idea–a syndicated UPI feature–is pretty similar to what AOL and Yahoo, etc. do with pop music right now. Even more seemingly prescient of our current kerfluffle is the Tom Petty blurb, which details his label/legal squabbles before capping with the gawky [...]

This guy’s absolutely fucking nuts. This is his blog (via), and he basically climbs stuff in public places (cranes, sides of buildings, things with exposed ladders) to get trippy aerial shots of cityscapes and industrial architecture. It’s like base-jumping, if instead of jumping one were to hire the “Shake Your Rump” videographer to [...]

Last year, the Fiery Furnaces covered “Norwegian Wood” (mp3) for the Rubber Soul tribute compilation, and were summarily lambasted across the music-crit sphere, both pro and amateur, online and off. How, in the name of everything holy, they wrote, could a band with only a few years of existence have the chutzpah to radically re-interpret [...]

Cat Power’s new record, due for release in January 2006, is titled The Greatest. This title has been the object of many raised eyebrows after Matador’s announcement of its existence and posting of its cover image, seen at right (click for a huge version–if you look closely at the reflection of the gloves, it appears [...]

Anyone within driving distance of Indianapolis between July 21 and 23 should make a point of checking out the Midwest Music Summit. It will feature not only several music-related symposia, but also hundreds of performances (regional and national) spread throughout the greater metropolitan area, at a variety of Indy’s best live music venues. Last year [...]