LET'S ACTIVE, the brainchild of wunderkind producer Mitch Easter, was a band that, between 1983 and 1988, released some of the finest Southern power-pop/jangle-pop of the decade. Here's their best-known, tune, “Every…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with THE REPLACEMENTS, live in Rotterdam, Holland circa 1991, in a set drawing heavily from Pleased To Meet Me, with rarities and covers. Your set includes “I'll Be You,”…
Read MoreGRAM PARSONS, as a member of both The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and as a solo artist, anticipated the so-called country rock of the 1970s and the alt-country movement that…
Read MoreSELLING OUT: RetroCrush has posted a video-filled feature on “Favorite Retro Pop Songs Ruined in Commercials.” Pop Candy solicited more ads from readers (AdFreak responds that punk bands selling out is the…
Read MoreA GREENER SHADE OF PALE: Procol Harum's former organ player, Matthew Fisher, is suing singer Gary Brooker for a share of copyright in the multimillion-selling “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” Fisher claims…
Read MorePATE frontman Jon Pratt e-mailed the other day, and noted in passing that his daughters are digging the site, which is very cool. I've probably embarrassed them by mentioning it, but I…
Read MoreARE YOU READY? ARE YOU READY TO GO BACK……to the WRECK of the EDMUND FITZGERALD? The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee.…
Read MoreROBYN HITCHCOCK and the VENUS 3, which includes REM guitarist Peter Buck and Young Fresh Fellow/Minus 5 frontman Scott McCaughey on bass, and Bill Rieflin on drums and percussion, played the Cabaret…
Read MoreMICK JONES talks to Blender about seeing Clash artifacts in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, what he's doing and listening to now, and the power of positive thinking.…
Read MoreNEW RELEASES: Foo Fighters, J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton, PJ Harvey's Peel Sessions, and early Bee Gees are streaming from AOL this week. Isobel Campbell rolls out the Brit-folk on Milkwhite Sheets.…
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