JONESTOWN: The mass cult suicide occurred 30 years ago today, as recalled by Tim Reiterman, who was shot while escaping the People's Temple compound in Guyana. So it seems like the moment…
Read MoreTHE RACONTEURS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and acoustic mini-set you can stream on demand via NPR. The band has released a video for "Old Enough" and an Antiques…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: X …with THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE! Jazz-influenced drummer Mitch Mitchell passed away late Wednesday at age 61 (or 62, depending where you read). We remember him here with…
Read MoreFLEET FOXES play "Sun Giant" and "Blue Ridge Mountain" in an abandoned wing of Paris's Grand Palais for a La Blogotheque TakeAway show. TOM MORELLO, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, stopped by The…
Read MoreKINGS OF LEON could "Use Somebody" in the latest video from their new album, Only By The Night. CONOR OBERST and The Mystic Valley Band have a full gig streaming on demand…
Read MoreTHE KILLERS surprise with their take on "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" during a surprise appearance for charity at Union Chapel in London. Toss in the Cyndi Lauper original, and you have Twofer Tuesday. NEW…
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 is the 33rd anniversary of the wreck of the…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with the BEN FOLDS FIVE! Back to Front presents the band's recent reunion concert, in which the trio played the 1999 album "The Unauthorized Biography Of Rienhold Messner"…
Read MoreEMMY THE GREAT fronts the Brighton Port Authority (a/k/a Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook) for "Seattle." BORN RUFFIANS do the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, three previously unreleased. OKKERVIL RIVER frontman Will…
Read MoreMAGICAL MYSTERY CHORD: A mathemetician unlocks the secret of the opening chord of The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." All it took was a little Fourier analysis. THE ANNUALS get a Twofer…
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