GNARLS BARKLEY plays Forrest Gump in the new video for “Smiley Faces,” hanging with everyone from Duke Ellington to the Velvet Underground to David Bowie and beyond. Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell…
Read MoreSAM COOKE does a good job lip-synching “Everybody Loves to Cha Cha,” until Jackie Wilson turns up.NEW RELEASES: Another slow week, though Feist remixes, a Steve Miller reissue, Bruce Cockburn, and Golden…
Read MoreSOMEBODY'S GOING TO SEE TOM WAITS, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. Sorry… couldn't help myself. Need Coffee will hook you up with a slew of Waits clips from YouTube, but not “Downtown…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:… with a rawking and absurdly amusing live version of “Hocus Pocus,” by Focus.FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: De-Animator. Use your mouse to aim and click to kill zombies.ADVANCE STREAMS of new…
Read MoreDISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT: With Syd Barrett's passing being announced Tuesday, I forgot to note that yesterday was the anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, a promo event occurring during a scheduled twi-nite doubleheader…
Read MoreSHINE ON, YOU CRAZY DIAMOND: Roger “Syd” Barrett, the troubled former lead singer and songwriter of Pink Floyd died last Friday at the Cambridgeshire home to which he retreated as a recluse…
Read MoreTHOM YORKE gets pub from the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Village Voice for The Eraser, which Rolling Stone gives four stars, but which gets a mere 6.6 on the…
Read MoreIT MUST BE SUMMER if World Party, Fountains of Wayne and Liz Phair are playing a free triple-bill at Taste of Chicago. And I was able to juggle my schedule at the…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:BLONDIE IS BACK, according to Entertainment Tonight. And Debbie Harry is older than the President. No, really. Anyway, it put me in the mood for Clem Burke's thundering drums…
Read MoreBELLE & SEBASTIAN are playing a rare concert accompanied by the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl tonight. The Philharmonic's musicians seem to be looking forward to the gig, as it's only…
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