Flashion Backward: Lelia Broussard
Here we are again with our special helmets strapped under our chins and our fancy silver space suits. Ready to zing back through time into UI’s archives to see what ancient creaking box of treats lies in wait for our delectation? Today we’re sampling the Lelia Broussard, Southern Belle by way of Philly, who regularly graces NYC with her presence and lilting, soulful voice. And quite the spicy concoction of flavor-flave our friend Lelia turns out to be. She belts out soul and jazz but isn’t afraid to throw in a little pop and–gasp–hip hop.  Somehow this potentially hot and juicy mess ends up being a melancholic meditation; a mature assimilation of styles that’

Flashion Forward: Aimee Allen
Let us gaze now into our custom Flashion Forward crystal ball and coquettishly zig and zag about the closets of UI’s fave new interviewees to examine the physical and psychological baggage they pack their shizzle in. Join me, won’t you? Today we’re invading Aimee Allen’s boudoir. First things first: kick ass music aside, I absolutely love it when a lady–who could have become yet another corny helmet-hair talking head (oky, babbling incoherently talking head) on a horrifyingly craptastic TVGuide Channel show–decides to take the rougher, more shoddily paved (and paid) road to notoriety. Aka, indie rock. Whe

Paper Garden Records’ Multiverse Playground this Saturday
We’re happy to be a co-sponsor of Paper Garden Records‘ Multiverse Playground this Saturday November 7 at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. The event features Boy Crisis, Das Racist, Peasant, Emanuel and the Fear and Darla Farmer. Comedy Central’s Kurt Metzger will be cracking jokes, Art Battles will be painting

De La Soul, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Futureheads to Rock Dubai SoundCity
While you’re probably recovering from various Halloween blowouts and thinking ahead to the holidays, things are just getting heated up  in Dubai for SoundCity, the city’s first winter music festival. De La Soul, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Futureheads, The Wombats, Super Furry Animals, Ladytron, We Have Band, Beat Antenna, 20 DJs and dozens more will take the stage at various venues across the 

KISS, Eminem, Lenny Kravitz Headline Voodoo Fest
Should you find yourself in one of America’s most haunted cities this Halloween weekend, check out the the eleventh annual Voodoo Fest at New Orleans City Park. KISS, Eminem and D12 and Lenny Kravitz are headling this year, with Ween, The Flaming Lips, JUSTICE, Jane’s Addiction, Wolfmother, Meat Puppets, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Janelle Mone, Silversun Pickups, K’Naan, The Black Keys, Jello Biafra and nearly 100 others over the next three days. It’s the only 2009 appearance from the recently-rehabbed Eminem, according to festival producer Steven Rehage. Full lineup