Idolator

(Ed. note: Tomorrow's my last day, and after almost a year of low-brow one-liners and overly porous "opinion" rants, I got nothin' left. So I'm going to spend the rest of my time lazily piling on the MP3s. Some of these are tracks I never got around to putting up in the first place, while others are tunes that went up back when we had about seven readers.) More »

Next week sees the release of The Horror Of Life, the 2,345th album from power-punk outfit J Church. Lead singer and songwriter Lance Hahn used to knock out a new 7" every few months or so, but he's been burdened with health problems for the last few years—not that you can tell from the ferocious, funny "Vampire Girl Prefers Me Alive": More »

As much as we joke about gleefully ripping off the biz, we sincerely want all of our beloved artists to have long, healthy lives—that way, we get to see the entire ascent- to-descent-to-rock bottom-to-comeback cycle play itself out in front of our very eyes. Unfortunately, the health-insurance situation for bands is pretty horrific, meaning that musicians sometimes have to lean on their fans for help. So read the below, listen to some MP3s, and maybe pick up some of these records (legally, of course) More »