TechFlash reports that a legaldango smackdown is brewing between Zoodango and Jobdango. As you know, dango is a word that means a start-up paid way too much to their naming and branding agency. Despite coming late to the dango party, after both Fandango and Handango, Jobdango's attorneys are asking Zoodango stop using that name. TechFlash says, "James Sun, the chief executive of Zoodango, called the trademark issue 'silly.'" No, James, your name is silly. Thank Jobdango for alerting you to that fact and move on. Oh, you have? New name is GeoPage? Now, why does that sound familiar? more ›

Last Friday, before X-Ray Press took the stage at Chop Suey, we ran into an acquaintance who described them as "math rock, circa 1994." After their set, another friend described them as "intellectual" musicians. Both are fair assessments: we wouldn't credit it as "original," but "skillful"? Hell yeah. Jumping between jerky time signatures, with a jagged, frequently dissonant guitar opposite thundering bass-lines and fuzzy keyboard melodies, X-Ray Press got down old-skool Don Cab-style. more ›