Dave Parkman

Ah, the Strokes. The foot-in-mouth gift that keeps on giving. Today Spinner posted an interview with Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr., who whines about his band being considered "garage" because a) he doesn't have a garage (no, really), and b) "garage music sounds like crap" and--at least according to him--the......

Fader magazine and a mysterious Tumblr misleadingly called drdrestartedburningman.tumblr.com are currently pimping a pseudo meme called "Dr. Dre Started Burning Man." Of course Dr. Dre did not start Burning Man--a bunch of hippies did. But Fader and the Tumblr site have posted a 1995 letter allegedly in Dre's handwriting where......

The picture to the right is, of course, how we'd all prefer to think of former Smashing Pumpkins' bassist D'arcy Wretzky, forever glorious in her weirded out, lysergic '90s alt-rock glory. But today she got arrested in Michigan and, well, she don't look like that no more. Courtesy of (what......

So today everyone's reading the New Yorker's article about LA director Paul Haggis and the Church of Scientology. The whole thing is really, really, really long but fairly entertaining and worth reading regardless of how you feel about the Los Angeles and showbiz institution of Scientology. Most of the stuff......

From time immemorial amateur teenage girls have practiced their rock moves in front of the mirror. Since the advent of YouTube, said amateur teenage girls have been getting their rockstars on in front of their webcams. And since the advent of The Runaways' movie the female empowerment gospel of Joan......

You should have read by now our enlightening article on the challenge to KCRW and other NPR stations by GOP and Tea Party goons, who are trying to defund them through Congress. As we said before, we support KCRW and all the other Public Radio stations and everything they do......

The White Stripes are no more (read their announcement here). Sure, there where the red, black, and white outfits and props, the bare-bones blues riffing and pounding, the preciousness of Lil' Jackie White and all that. And then there was Meg. The Serene Majesty of 2000s music. The Icon. The......

The Hollywood Reporter found an intriguing item during a James Franco interview with Canada's etalk. Franco revealed that a) he's part-owner of a bar called The Writer's Room, which is in a (currently) secret location, b) he will be hosting a secret Oscar afterparty there on Feb. 27 and c)......

According to Billboard, Motley Crue singer Vince Neil "avoided the media and quietly pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving drunk last summer near the Las Vegas Strip in a case that drew denials that he received preferential treatment." On June 28, 2010, it was reported that "Motley Crue singer Vince Neil,......

So the Coachella organizers had an empty slot between the Coachella festival itself and the much more chill Stagecoach "Americana" festival and, as everyone knows by now, they offered it to Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer for the first American version of the Big Four festival they've been performing for......