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The Six Most Uncool Members Of Cool Bands

Last week in this very column, we counted down the six coolest members of uncool bands. This week, we flip the script. Here are the six most uncool members of cool bands, and they're all probably really nice people. See Also: -The Six Coolest Members of Otherwise Uncool Bands

What We've Gained from Twitter: Knowing your Favorite Musician Can't Spell

Miley Cyrus is quitting Twitter, reportedly. She's not unfollowing herself over music -- her tweets were reportedly an affront to Liam Hemsworth, which is reportedly the name of a real person -- and the RFT Music demographic, so far as our ad guys can tell, is probably not very broken up about it. B ... More >>

Weezer's Lost "Songs From The Black Hole" Album Finally Released... By A Message Board

Twenty years ago, the people who yesterday released a complete, remarkably full-sounding version of Songs from the Black Hole, the lost Weezer rock opera begun and abandoned before Pinkerton, probably would have just started a zine or something. The internet's amplified a lot of things--celebrity s ... More >>

Beck's Sheet Music Album: Five Especially Awkward Music Delivery Mechanisms

I'm willing to be surprised, on this, but if word got out that there was a Beck sheet music album coming out, I'm fairly sure the average RFT Music reader could fill in the rest of the news story him-or-herself. So: There's a Beck sheet music album coming out. It's called Song Reader, which is nicel ... More >>

Ben Folds Five's Kickstarter-y New Album Is The Good News From Music's Niche-ification

Here's how things were different the last time Ben Folds Five released an album, without digital music stores, social networking, or anything like Kickstarter: Ubiquity was a possible outcome for rock-and-roll albums. Not just from huge names, either--in the same way baseball's late-90s power bing ... More >>

Steve Aoki Talks Hipsters, Hardcore and the Moment Electro Went Punk

Mention Steve Aoki in a crowded room and watch the reactions; some will cross themselves in reverence, most will nod their recognition at the name, and the rest will know him only as "a DJ." But Steve Aoki has never been just a DJ; he's a modern auteur with his finger rammed in the proverbial sphinc ... More >>

Five Unnervingly Specific Facts About Miranda Cosgrove Wikipedia's SOPA Blackout Kept You From Knowing

​Wikipedia's decision to black out on Wednesday in support of the efforts against SOPA and PIPA hurt a lot of demographics--high schoolers looking for paraphrases to paraphrase, search engine optimizers who kind of hoped Wikipedia would be shut down, people who needed an episode guide for A Mi ... More >>

The Six Best "Bad" Guitar Solos

Eddie Van Halen demonstrates the exact opposite of this idea.​The guitar solo has become an integral part of the rock and roll formula, either as a melodic counterpoint to a vocal line or an excuse for showing off. But there's a different kind of solo out there. The kind that, by all technical ... More >>

If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

Weezer Covers "Paranoid Android," Runs Out Of Weird Things To Do

If this were the cover of an actual Weezer album, the title would be neither "Weezer," nor "OK Computer," nor "Raditude."​As a Weezer fan I've learned to think in phases. I'd like to think it keeps me sane to understand that no direction they move in, good or bad, will last too long. For insta ... More >>

Review: Rooney and Eisley at the Firebird, Wednesday, February 23

Jon GitchoffRooney at the Firebird​Given the way the audience reacted to Rooney at the Firebird last night, it was only appropriate that guitarist Taylor Locke teased a few Beatles riffs mid-set. Although Rooney thankfully didn't reduce any girls to tears the way the fab four did, the Los Ange ... More >>

Setlist Review Photos: Adam Lambert Transcends American Idol at the Pageant, Sunday, August 8

American Idol's taken a beating this year. Besides the usual drama with its judges, interest in the show appeared to be dwindling. In fact, its results-show finalé drew its lowest ratings ever. Perhaps what Idol again needs is a personality like Adam Lambert. The season eight runner-up lived up to ... More >>

Jive & Wail in Maplewood Sued for Copyright Infringement by BMI

jiveandwail.com​Performance-rights giant BMI and several other copyright-owners have sued the Maplewood outpost of the Jive & Wail for copyright infringement In documents filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, multiple plaintiffs accused the Jive & Wail piano bar in Maplewood of nineteen in ... More >>

Why Third Eye Blind became an alt-rock cockroach

With its fourth album, The Constant, Story of the Year stays the course

Battle of Wits: Who's better: Blink-182 or Weezer?

Royal Contrast: Hip-hop ex-pat Wafeek celebrates paradoxes with new album, The Aristocrats

B-Sides traces the history and evolution of the power ballad in honor of Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick, and examines An Under Cover Weekend's '80s and '90s participants

Free Music: The RAC and Vandalyzm

Halftime Report: Taking a look at some of the most buzzed-about albums of the year

Video: Weezer, "Pork and Beans"

Circuit Breakers

Sparks fly as So Many Dynamos generates indie buzz.

The Frog King Returns

Sunny Day Real Estate's Jeremy Enigk, solo and more talkative than ever.

Mae

Thursday, October 20; Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

Weezer

Maladroit (Geffen)

Weezer with Tenacious D and Jimmy Eat World

Thursday, Nov. 29; Family Arena

The Dismemberment Plan

Change (DeSoto)