After what seemed like a series of odd delays and false starts, the lineup finally got released today for this year’s Coachella Music Festival. It’s a good one. Really good. Headlining each day are Paul McCartney on Friday, The Killers on Saturday and The Cure on Sunday (before you scoff at Friday’s closer, Uncle Corey’s [...]

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Is “Little Dealer Boy” a new Christmas classic? Umm, yes. [Wired Listening Post]
The coming Colbert/Kanye apocalypse will spare nobody (yes, we’re on a Colbert [...]

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Chuck Klosterman fears the bear with cornrows that is Axl Rose, and reviews Chinese Democracy. [I Am Fuel, You are Friends]
Former Wilco member Jay [...]

[Editor's note: We'd like to welcome Uncle Corey to our band of brothers here at the Stranger Dance. Besides being a certifiable life-long music lover and all-around brown-bear-cub-like nice guy, he also spent the better part of his 20s working for a host of newspapers across Washington and California, so he'll hopefully bring some kind [...]