SONIC YOUTH played the 9:30 Club in DC last week, so you can stream it now from NPR. The show features material from Rather Ripped, which Thurston Moore discusses in MAGNET magazine.…
Read MoreECHO & THE BUNNYMEN pick up where your precious Echo left off with this Velvet-y piece of pop goodness, “Stormy Weather” on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. If CBS's lawyers…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with IKE & TINA TURNER: Because we never do things here nice and easy, let's start things with two hot live performances of “Proud Mary” and “River Deep, Mountain…
Read MoreTHE REPLACEMENTS' Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (streaming in full from AOL Music this week) got an impressive 8.8 in an insightful review on the Pitchfork: “The Replacements were…
Read MoreTHE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: So, what do Keith Moon and Pete Townshend play while waiting for the movie folk to get fully set up? This outtake from The Kids Are Alright isn't…
Read MoreLONDON CALLING: Although Saturday Night Live polices clips turning up on the Internet, we have its long defunct imitator, Fridays, to thank for these April 1980 high-octane performances of “London Calling” and…
Read MoreTHE PIPETTES' new video for “Pull Shapes” (in Quicktime and on YouTube) puts the band smack in the middle of the cult classic, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. BONUS: I don't…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:GNARLS BARKLEY did indeed appear as the cast from Star Wars — with Chewbacca on the drums — to play “Crazy” at the MTV Movie Awards. You can see…
Read MoreTHE REPLACEMENTS “best of” Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? arrives next week, complete with those two new tracks, but you can stream the whole thing now, courtesy of Rhino!…
Read MoreBILLY PRESTON, whose keyboards improved the worlds of gospel, soul, funk, rock and pop music, died yesterday in Scottsdale, AZ at 59. His best-known performance is probably on a London rooftop with…
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