Rock Sellout has a pretty length interview up with Raul Panther, frontman for the Protomen. According to the bands Wikipedia page the band rarely gives interviews out of character (though I did not verify that information) so it’s a refreshingly candid take on the band, their nicknames, their origins, their recording process and their devoted fans.

Once upon a time a roommate asked me if Dan Deacon could play a house party at our place and I respectfully declined. Not that I wasn’t into his dance-y, glitch-y, geeky tunes but I just couldn’t imagine the pandemonium that would take place during and after the performance. Fortunately he’s playing tonight at The End (along with Nuclear Power Pants, Daniel Pujol and Totally Michael) and I’m sure it will be an evening of epic proportions.

Jon Burr, of How I Became the Bomb, would like it to be known that he has joined forces with some friends (including top notch designer Austin Gray) to create a new collaborative blog known as the Lower Atlantis Gun Club. While the meat of the site will likely be a recurring sports-related podcast there will surely be musings on music, graphic novels, Free Masons and any such intriguing topics that run through the mind of Mr. Burr. Check out this snippet from the Manifesto:

For those exhausted by the bluster and hyperbole of other sports media outlets, our aim is to add a modicum of high brow humor and quasi-analysis. For those who feel they have no voice in this climate of anti-intellectualism and those that sob at their own gradual detachment from the state of modern sport, we say, “Welcome home.”

Epic intentions to say the least!