Hi loved ones, in addition to my laborious UsedWigs nonsense-spewing, I’m very excited to be contributing to the mighty Low Times. Here’s my first bit of business for them: Good Cover / Bad Cover – “Someday I Will Treat You Good” For every good cover version of a song, there is a bad one. Sorry, [...]

Three of my most favorite people – Maggie Serota, Daniel Ralston and Tom Scharpling – just launched a new music podcast, Low Times, and as you would expect, it’s super duper! What is it exactly? Well, silly, I’ll let them tell you: Low Times is a music podcast hosted by Tom Scharpling (The Best Show on [...]

Titus Andronicus – “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future” Kudos to director Tom Scharpling for this sublimely shot and wildly itinerant tribute to his beloved home state and of course, props to Titus Andronicus for always assembling challenging and rewarding music. With the indie scene dominated by quirked-up children’s music and hipsters pretending [...]

Follow these simple directions: Enjoy this excellent video directed by Jack Ferry. Listen to Ted Leo live on WFMU tonight. Donate some money to WFMU to keep a good thing going! (Pledge during The Best Show with host Tom Scharpling tonight from 9:00pm-Midnight EST.) For your kind support, you’ll receive some some lovely gifts! Now [...]

I will help you find some very funny people on Twitter. Twitter is a contest and every day I pick the winner (except for Sundays, that’s when the Lord and I rest). This is a good place to find the funny people on Twitter.

The second video from TL&Rx’ new album “The Brutalist Bricks”. Written & Directed By Tom Scharpling Starring: Paul F. Tompkins, Julie Klausner, John Hodgman, Ted Leo, Marty Key, Chris Wilson & James Canty Producers: Robert Hatch-Miller & Puloma Basu Tabbara Dancers: Renata Espinosa, Leigh Gerber & Jeff Davis Production Assistants: David Clarke, Jacob Wolk & Kevin Albright “The Brutalist Bricks” out now on Matador Records.

Sorry Ladies, This Hunk is Taken: Inventor Le Trung has made himself a robotic wife and it looks like he plans to have sex with it. Way to go Trung! Thanks for smashing to bits all those creepy Japanese scientist stereotypes.  His next invention: a high-powered robotic douche. [via Gizmodo] Man, I Love That Cars [...]

You are a writer, actor, singer and comedian. Which one do you want to take all the way? Or do you want to keep them all rolled up in one? I want to take everything all the way, or at least to sloppy third. I briefly knew an amateur drag queen here in D.C. who [...]