THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with XTC! Live on Rockpalast, February 10, 1982. Your setlist includes: "Respectable Street" (still one of my faves), "Towers of London," "Runaways," "Jason and the Argonauts," "Burning…
Read MoreERROL BROWN, the singer who as the ultra-smooth frontman of Hot Chocolate became one of Britain’s most successful musicians, has died from liver cancer. He was 71. The band's catalog is deeper and stranger…
Read MoreMIKAL CRONIN plays “Turn Around” for Conan. NOVELLA advance streams their debut LP, Land. ESKIMEAUX advance streams O.K. KENNY KNIGHT advance streams the reissue of Crossroads. VOMITFACE advance streams the Another Bad…
Read MoreCINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: …with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our…
Read MoreBEN E. KING, a singer and songwriter whose 1961 hit “Stand by Me” became an enduring rhythm-and-blues classic and found a new generation of fans through the popular 1986 film of the…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with R.E.M! Live at the Capital Theater, in Passaic, NJ, on June 9, 1984. Your set list includes: "Pale Blue Eyes"; "Second Guessing"; "Hyena"; "Letter Never Sent"; "Harborcoat";…
Read MoreDEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 shares a video for "Virgins." ALL PEOPLE advance streams Learn Forget Repeat. RYAN ADAMS streams three songs from a new 7″ called I Do Not Feel Like Being…
Read MoreJACK ELY, a co-founder of the Kingsmen, the man whose unintelligible singing of Richard Berry's "Louie, Louie" made it a teen anthem and FBI target, died at his home in Redmond, Oregon,…
Read MoreJASON ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES covered Warren Zevon’s “Mutineer" for Letterman. WARM SODA advance streams Symbolic Dream. LORD HURON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. TODD RUNDGREN, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm,…
Read MoreIRON & WINE oddly features pro wrestling in the video for “Everyone’s Summer Of ’95.” MAC McCAUGHAN advance streams Non-Believers. THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD advance streams Dark Bird Is Home.…
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