Actor Jason Segal (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, How I Met Your Mother) has always had a bit of the musical talent running through him. We only know this because he's demonstrated these skills in his roles both on the big and small screens. Earlier this week Segal joined The Swell Season onstage at The Wiltern in
BEHOLD!!! As Turkey Day approaches we’re going to give you a prize pack for the ages, full of things to watch while you recover from your epic and impending food coma. We’re offering a homemade comedy DVD and CD prize pack of some of the best comedians in the biz and fatten your DVD collection. [...]
Vampire Weekend are back with a new music video for their current single “Cousins” off their forthcoming album Contra, which hits stores on January 12th. Since the album is titled Contra, we have this underlying hope the album with come with an unlock-able track that you can only access by using the Konami code. Ya [...]
Raise your hand if you’re tired of the Rock Band and Guitar Hero video games…no us neither but it doesn’t mean that we’re not psyched about DJ Hero, a game that will allow you to channel that inner Daft Punk on the wheels of steel. In celebration of the launch of this awesome game we’re [...]
Humble in their ways, Mimicking Birds (Nate Lacy, Tim Skellenger, Aaron Hanson) from Portland, Oregon have certainly made an impressive entrance into the national scene recently. Discovered and signed by Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) to the Glacial Pace label, Mimicking Birds has experienced rapid exposure as they continue to trek coast to coast with Blind [...]
Taco Bell just announced the winners for their 2009 Feed The Beat program. For the last 4 years, the company has selected touring bands for this program and helped them make life a little bit easier on the road by supporting the bands through some free eats. Other bands benefited even more by having sponsored [...]
This is the internet, there are rules dude…:: Beach House “Norway” [Stereogum]:: Minus The Bear “Broken China” [Deaf Left Ear]:: Real Estate “Beach Comber” [Force Field]:: Tune Yards “Sunlight” [4AD / Beggars]:: We All Have Hooks For Hands “Made Up Of Tiny Lights” [KEXP]:: We Shot The Moon “Red Night” [Afternoon Records]
Carbon/Silicon are back at giving away free tunes on the internets. The duo of Mick Jones (The Clash) and Tony James (Generation X) founded C/S on the guise the band exist as a creative outlet and would give music away for free to anyone wanting to download and listen. And now, after a bit of [...]
So you’ve given up on Weezer. That’s okay – we all can agree that The Red Album blows worse than Courtney Love in need of drugs. But there is good news if you’re willing to hear it. Weezer’s seventh studio album, Ratitude, feels like a return to the Weezer you want to like.
:: 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct Aftermath:: A Fine Fenzy Oh Blue Christmas Virgin:: Artie Lange Jack and Coke Shout Factory:: Beak> Beak> Ipecac Recordings:: David Bowie Space Oddity (40th Anniversary Edition) EMI:: Fall Out Boy Believers Never Die – Greatest Hits Island:: Forever The Sickest Kids The Weekend: Friday Universal Motown:: Janet Jackson [...]
Minus The Bear will return in 2010. The band has a new studio LP that will be the official follow-up to Planet Of Ice. The Seattle quartet holed themselves up in a recording studio for 4 months to crank out this new record.They brought in the Grammy Award winning producer Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning [...]
Murder by Death just quietly let us know they are headed into the studio in a few weeks to begin production on their new album. The band posted an update on their Facebook page with just one sentence. But oh! Is it a great sentence to read… Follow up album to 2008’s Red of Tooth [...]
The Riverboat Gamblers got themselves a second video from their most recent album, Underneath The Owl. The video depicts the band in room doing what they do best, with the help of a few friends that seemed to drop by and put on their best Gamblers karaoke. The video was directed by Gates Bradley and [...]
The Monsters Of Folk went for the simple video treatment on “Say Please.” It made sense for them to take a simple folksy route since they are, after all, monsters of it. The vid looks like its set in a WWII-era country hoedown. I know this because the army outfits, rollerskaters, and grainy film told [...]
Generation Records is an awesome NYC record store that always has a bunch of great in-store performances. One of the most recent band appearances was by Blake Schwarzenbach’s new band Forgetters.The band packed themselves into the basement of the store and performed some tunes. We weren’t there, but our buddies over at Late Night Wallflower [...]
Oh lookey here, we have a new Brendan Benson video in our hands. The video plays up a bit on the psychedelic intro of the song and also pushes the color mix up just a bit more on things. The 70’s vibe is complete with the implementation of the ol’ split-screen video technique. Oh Brendan [...]
Yes! Lifter Puller’s back catalog will be re-released with deluxe editions with some albums being available digitally (through The Orchard) for the first time on December 1st. This Minneapolis-based band, who broke-up in 2000 are known to many (if at all) as the outfit that The Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn and guitarist Tad Kubler [...]
Attention power-pop fans. Here’s an artist you need to put on your radar. Mcgowan is a Brooklyn-based musician who’s music you may be familiar with even though you might not know his name. His latest album American Regular was just released and distills some of the great rock influences of the last few decades. Mcgowan [...]
A few months back The Flaming Lips sent out a bulletin to their fans. They were in need of people not afraid to get naked for their latest video “Watching The Planets”Now the result of that filming has been released on the public and it’s definitely a NSFW video. While watching this thing I wasn’t [...]
…nothing but the dog in him.In case anyone wanted to know, the phrase “bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea” is officially owned by George Clinton and he has the federal ruling backing him to prove it.In 2001 Bridgeport Music, the company that administers Clinton’s work, filed suit against Universal Music Group over copyright infringement [...]
What is this? The MOG Music Network is MOG's community of the best music blogs from around the internet. The network is growing rapidly and we're always looking for more great music blogs to add to our roster, so if you think your blog should be part of the MOG Music Network, APPLY HERE!