Alternative/Punk

Not everyone uses the Internet. It's hard to imagine, but they do have their "reasons" and here they are. Who knows, maybe you'll unplug after you watch this.

For a look at all the lousy excuses people give for not taking part in a big part of the human experience, check out the list from Pew Research.

Let's face it, the iPhone is all about apps - nobody has more of them. But that makes it all the more difficult to find the good ones. Here are 5 you really must have first, before you even set out to install iFart or Bubble Wrap.

Where do I go to stay on top of iPhone stuff? CNET's iPhone Atlas.

I gotta say, I'm really proud of this week's Buzz Report--plus, it's extra-large for your enjoyment, at more than 6 minutes long! There's this week's ruling on the FCC's ability to enforce Net neutrality regulations, a little iPad talk (did you know you can take it through airport security and leave it in your bag?), and a little breaking news insert to update you on the big iPhone OS 4.0 announcement (we do in 90 seconds what Steve Jobs does in 90 minutes). And Kevin Rose takes over as Digg's interim … Read more

This is the last Free MP3 of the Day on Download Music, so we figure "Farewell" by Songs: Ohia would be fitting good-bye song. Tune into Last.fm to keep hearing more great free music!

About Songs: Ohia... Having weathered his frequent comparisons to Will Oldham, Jason Molina (the chief force behind Songs: Ohia) has matured as a writer and also branched out as a musician, shifting between slow-moving moments of melancholy and more vigorous Midwestern guitar-rock anthems, like something off "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." The latter's what you'll find here, so crank … Read more

Dear friends and fans of CNET Download Music,

We have some important news to share. On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, the CNET Download Music site will begin redirecting all artist pages and category doors to corresponding pages on our sister music site Last.fm.

We're extremely proud of our close association with Last.fm because, like CNET Download Music, the site shares the same spirit of independence and discovery--not to mention ease of use and a large song catalog--that we find so vital to a satisfying online music experience. … Read more

The side project of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner, the Furs couch his indie-man's urgency in a starker sonic template. Implosive machine beats are introduced to piercing synths, and by all accounts they agree to disagree. The dirges may end up closer in spirit to Modest Mouse than Boeckner's main band.

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New York outfit the Golden Filter mixes retro-sexual disco-tech around undulating waves of electro-pop--revival style. With influences ranging from Soft Cell and Giorgio Moroder, the beats of GF will leave you craving their "nu-disco" sound not long after they end. Here's to a night of solid, disco-dancing!

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If you followed all your notions of what being in a band should be--heavy drinking, wailing away on an untuned Strat, generalized debauchery--well, you'd probably never finish a song. But Atlanta's Lips make it work. It's as though their scruffy garage melodies reward the purity of their rockness.

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There was all sorts of buzz earlier this week about TV on the Radio's apparently abysmal performance on Saturday Night Live. If you like the band, as I happen to, you have to wonder what happened: their recordings are immaculate, and they have a solid live reputation.

Today, music blog Idolator performs an interesting experiment, embedding the band's performance of "Dancing Choose" on SNL directly above the same song performed on last night's edition of The Colbert Report. The difference is immediately noticeable.

So what the heck happened on SNL? Idolator jokes that they're … Read more