THE ROLLING STONES: With Halloween a little over week away, my thoughts tend to drift toward the Band of the Living Dead. An Aquarium Drunkard has posted a streamable bootleg EP circa…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:…with THE BEAT FARMERS! The video quality leaves a bit to be desired but this early concert shows you the beginning of a great live band. A few years…
Read MoreJEFF TWEEDY apparently made like Keef Richards and clocked a fan who rushed the stage at a Wilco gig in Sprigfield MO. Which is an appropos introduction to the video for “The…
Read MoreDAVID BOWIE and MARIANNE FAITHFULL duet on “I Got You, Babe,” circa 1980. It's definitiely not Groundhog Day.WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCATS? Stereogum is holding a contest to win the original (out of print)…
Read MoreNO CBGB: The New York Times talks to Patti Smith at the start of its piece on the demise of the famed NYC venue that served “as the casual headquarters and dank…
Read Morephoto courtesy of BiblioMama.ART BRUT, WE ARE SCIENTISTS and the SPINTO BAND played Chicago on Thursday. Ken King and I went, but I didn't blurb it Friday for deadline reasons. The show…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with THE TOP 40 MUSIC MOMENTS IN FILM HISTORY, according to Bullz-Eye, though they are really listing rock music moments. The self-imposed rules barred some I would list, like…
Read MoreBECK tells Jam! Music how he came to include the low-budget DVD and sticker set with his latest album, The Information — extras that disqualified the album from the UK charts. He…
Read MoreFRANK BLACK is back on the solo track and prolific to boot, though he puts it in perspective to the Houston Chronicle: “But didn't Elvis Costello write an album a day or…
Read MoreCAMERA OBSCURA frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell talks to Pitchfork about a variety of topics, including touring the US, technology and the significance of Lloyd Cole, who she says likes “Lloyd, I'm Ready to…
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