THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …FROM THE BYRDS TO THE EAGLES! Via Aquarium Drunkard, a BBC documentary on the music coming out of Los Angeles, "beginning in the mid-60s with the Byrds, on…
Read MoreSOUNDGARDEN played "Black Rain" and "Hunted Down" for Conan on TV and the web. THE SOFT BOYS are streaming the reissue of the classic Underwater Moonlight. LOS LOBOS played a Tiny Desk…
Read MoreTHE WRECK of the EDMUND FITZGERALD: The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Today marks the 35th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald…
Read MoreBEN GIBBARD & ZOOEY DESCHANEL duet on "I'll Never Find Another You" in Seattle. Throw in The Seekers' original for Twofer Tuesday. NEW RELEASES from Springsteen, Ronnie Spector, Summer Camp, the Concretes and more,…
Read MoreTHE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH dropped a video for "Love Is All." THE GREENHORNES are advance streaming Four Stars. STEREOLAB is advance streaming Not Music. SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN stopped…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with R.E.M.! Live in Germany circa 1985, more complete than what has previously turned up on the Tube. Songs include "Feeling Gravity's Pull," "Harbourcoat," "Sitting Still," "Maps &…
Read MoreOF MONTREAL drops a woman-filled video for "Famine Affair" on SPIN. THE DRESDEN DOLLS have three pay-what-you-want LPs posted at Bandcamp. Meanwhile, Amanda Palmer talks to Fast Company about using social media…
Read MoreNICK LOWE played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. "So It Goes." THE DECEMBERISTS offer up "Down by the Water" as an advance track to The King is Dead,…
Read MoreSOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN drops a clip for "Sink / Let it Sway." NEW RELEASES from Andrew Bird, Matt & Kim, Autumn Defense and Cornershop, plus McCartney's Band on the…
Read MoreYUSUF ISLAM (Cat Stevens), OZZY OSBOURNE and THE O'JAYS brought "Peace Train," "Crazy Train" and "Love Train" to the big Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally in DC over the weekend. Given Yusuf Islam's…
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