THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles,…
Read MorePILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP. MRCY plays World Cafe. GUIDED BY VOICES shares a hi-fi version of their lo-fi classic "I Am A Scientist." BRYAN FERRY covers Dylan's "She Belongs To…
Read MoreFATBOY SLIM: When your "Weapon of Choice" is Walken. JULIA HOLTER visits World Cafe. X shares "Ruby Church." CHRISTOPHER OWENS (Girls) returns after seven years with “I Think About Heaven.” THE HARD QUARTET: Emmett…
Read MoreTHE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday. THE DECEMBERISTS visit World Cafe. WET LEG covers Charli…
Read MoreTHE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Cults, Wand, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Crack Cloud, Robber…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: with MUSIC TELEVISION! The cable phenom debuted on this weekend in 1981. The first four hours included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of…
Read MoreADAM & THE ANTS: "Dog Eat Dog." Gonna look real good (yeah, right). PRINCE: 40 Years of Purple Rain. A STRANGE TRIBUTE TO TAYLOR SWIFT, ft the Runaways’ Cherie Currie, Dead Boys, Samantha…
Read MoreELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head." PAUL WELLER visits World Cafe. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS shares “Long Dark Night.” KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD shares “Hog…
Read MoreTHE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, cranking out "I Don't Let The Little Things Get Me Down" and "Rock & Roll Pest Control" raw for Twofer Tuesday. PERFUME GENIUS shares "All Around Me Now"…
Read MoreZZ TOP: They've been up, they've been down, but you know they were just lookin' for some "Tush." NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Dr. Dog, Los Campesinos!, and more. BILL'S…
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