UPDATED: JANUARY 21, 2008

If I Had My Time Again...

A funny thing happened as I finished British journalist Chris Salewicz's authoritative Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer--I gained a whole new measure of respect for one Mick Jones.


Posted by Rodeo Rob


Big Rocks, Big Rock

Nude As The News had a writer and a photographer at last month's Monolith festival. Now there's a story about it.


Posted by Mark


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What's on our record player:



Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Radiohead
In Rainbows

Albert Hammond, Jr.
Yours To Keep

Buffalo Daughter
New Rock

Black Crowes
Three Snakes And One Charm

In Rainbows

Radiohead
In Rainbows
Radiohead takes the boldest step yet in the musical industry’s new era of self-reliance.

The Great American Something

Icewagon Flu
The Great American Something
Surely there must be some “Best Unsigned Band” contest that Icewagon Flu, the They Might be Giants meets the Pogues band from Hoboken, N.J., can win.

Bluefinger

Frank Black
Bluefinger
Delve into the worlds of two rock icons in one tight album – what are you waiting for?

Everybody

The Sea & Cake
Everybody
A back-to-basics throwback to their mid-90's heyday, Everybody isn't terribly substantial but it goes down smooth.

Sky Blue Sky

Wilco
Sky Blue Sky
The best band in the land? The evidence grows ever more convincing on Wilco's gorgeous sixth album, Sky Blue Sky.

Ian Hunter
Rodeo Rob sits down with the legendary Mott the Hoople frontman to discuss his new album, and the songs that won't stop pouring from his head.

Bob Mould
NATN's Pantheon: A brief history of the artists who make the music that we can't get out of our minds.

Pixies
NATN co-director Troy Carpenter examines the work and legacy of the Pixies.


Gary Reynolds
Vinyl junkie Western Homes talks to one musician who's doing his utmost to keep the format alive in substance and in spirit.

Matthew Sweet
The artist regales NATN with a handful of well-put monologues reveling in his newfound independent status, Robert Quine, Van Dyke Parks, and his own pair of "new" albums.

Jason Falkner
Jason Falkner is all over the place. Musically, that is. Physically, he's in Los Angeles. Well, actually he's in Norway now. And he's probably on at least five CDs in your collection.

TV On The Radio
Lead singer/songwriter Tunde Adebimpe talks to two of NATN's braintrust within a fortnight. He holds forth on the group's rise to acclaim, the hard life of hard touring, and TVOTR's future plans.

Cat Power
Chan Marshall jumps like a kitty, dying to escape through a door that beckons and sits slightly ajar. She plays air guitar, air trumpet, air piano, and last but not least, air drums.

Pharaoh Sanders
An ill Will Craven basks in the restorative powers of Pharaoh Sanders and the Grace Cathedral.

The Arcade Fire
Jeff Gray catches the Arcade Fire in between scales, dealing with rising popularity but playing San Francisco's Warfield Theater with all they've got.

The Decemberists
The Decemberists overcome grand theft instrument to bring the circus to a SF speakeasy.

Nude as the 90s Obsessions