Reviewing YouTube videos of The Cult's work over the years, it starts to make a lot of sense why they still sport such a fierce following across the pond, why Oliver Stone would ask that old ham sandwich, lead singer Ian Astbury, to play Jim Morrision in The Doors (which he turned down, obviously), and why 2.5 decades after their inception, they still appear to be badasses in their own frilly-wristed way. Arguably, they are the Diet Guns and Roses of Britain, the Tab to G'n'R's Coke. more ›

For a band putting out records on Buddyhead, self-described "steampunks" The Cassettes spend a remarkable amount of time busking for quarters on the streets of DC, their hometown. Perhaps they just belong to an earlier, simpler time; singer/mandoliner Shelby Cinca throws around old-timey words like "bourgeois" and "Al Jolson" like it was 1928 all over again. Then again, he's apparently a huge Oasis fan. Oh, contradictions... more ›