LATEST BLOG POSTS

• Blogger/Consultant

  June 27, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  First there was Jerome Armstrong consulting for Sherrod Brown and Mark Warner. Now Salon's Peter Daou is going on Hillary's payroll. Maybe Blogger/Consultant... | More »

• Hatfield and the North: Seventies Prog-Rock Supergroup Finally Find America

  June 26, 9:49 PM ET

  | By David Fricke

  We are here because we agreed to agree." That is the simple explanation singer-bassist Richard Sinclair gave at the start of the improbable dream that came true June 2... | More »

• Desecrate This

  June 26, 5:46 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  This amendment is one vote from clearing the Senate: The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. Which would ... | More »

• Rivers Cuomo: The Bachelor Years

  June 26, 5:09 PM ET

  Yikes: Gawker dredged up an essay Rivers Cuomo wrote for one of his Harvard professors two years ago. It's like watching someone else's show-up-to-work-naked... | More »

• Live Review: Robert Plant, Ryan Adams Do It For Love at Arthur Lee Benefit Concert

  June 26, 12:43 PM ET

  | By David Fricke

  Robert Plant ended his headlining hour at "We're Doing It for Love" — a benefit for Arthur Lee, the ailing singer-songwriter of the pioneering Los Angeles band ... | More »

• Gayest Song Ever: Your Picks

  June 26, 12:14 PM ET

  Last week's "What's the Gayest Song Ever?" post got a crazy response; as Gay Pride weekend becomes a memory, we thought we'd salute you, our readers, by... | More »

• Live Review: The Liars Suffered For Their Art, Now It's Our Turn

  June 26, 7:20 AM ET

  | By Rob Sheffield

  For most bands, "desecrating the very idea of music" would be a putdown. But for the Liars, i's a job description. On a stormy Saturday night at Warsaw, the Berli... | More »

• Comment of the Day

  June 23, 1:05 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Doglogan writes: Understanding the gay marriage issue is a matter of maturity. I grew up thinking homosexuality was disgusting and unnatural. I made fag jokes with my... | More »

• The End of Poverty?: John Edwards and the Vision Thing

  June 23, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  John Edwards unwraps his 2008 platform: It's wrong we have 37 million Americans living in poverty —separated from the opportunities of this country by their in... | More »

• "One Percent" Blogging: Cheney "Willfully Misleading" America

  June 22, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  I'm just dipping into Ron Suskind's grippy investigative epic, The One Percent Doctrine. Especially following this week's Frontline investigation that e... | More »

• Staying the Course at Home: The GOP's War on the Poor and the Disenfranchised

  June 22, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  In the last 24 hours, Republicans in Congress have blocked two vital pieces of legislation —attempting to make sure that America's poor and voiceless citizens s... | More »

• Run for Your Lives! Blue Cheer at CBGB

  June 21, 5:53 PM ET

  | By David Fricke

  The founding late-Sixties lineup of the San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer — singer-bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, drummer Paul Whaley and guitarist Leigh Stephens... | More »

• What's the Gayest Song Ever?

  June 21, 4:31 PM ET

  Sirius satellite radio DJ Frank DeCaro will usher in gay pride weekend 2006 by playing his picks for the top ten gayest songs ever. According to DeCaro "Bosom BuddiesÂ... | More »

• Comment of the Day: Gay Marriage and Polygamy

  June 21, 2:37 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Reader KJB writes: I just don't know how two guys have any more right to get married than some polygamists. Discuss... | More »