THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with LOOSE FUR, which is Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche with multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke. Drag City was smart enough to post the video for “Hey Chicken” at You…
Read MoreBUZZCOCKS guitarist Steve Diggle talks to Pitchfork about the birth of punk, musical legacies, and the last days of Kurt Cobain: “So that New York sound inspired us. It's almost like what…
Read MoreSUSANNA HOFFS and MATTHEW SWEET were already members of Ming Tea, the freakout-interlude band from the Austin Powers comedies, but now — under the monicker Sid N' Susie — have recorded Under…
Read MoreDESTROYER, New Pornographer Dan Bejar's other band, releases Rubies today; it scores an 8.5 on the Pitchfork: “structurally complex, thematically dense, and labyrinthine in its self-referentiality.” The whole album is streaming from…
Read MoreGEORGE WASHINGTON: Though now lumped in with everyone for Presidents' Day, tomorrow is the birthday of the “Father of his Country.” A team of scientists that began reimagining Washington as a reckless,…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…… is a phrase lifted from the seminal British pop music show Ready Steady Go, which is warmly remembered in London's Guardian. The show's final theme song was Them's…
Read MoreJAMES HUNTER likes his soul music old school, but he will disagree: “I feel this music is as relevant for people today as it would've been 40 years ago,” he explains. “It…
Read MoreANOTHER RARE PATE TRACK, courtesy of Jon Pratt: The original two track master for “My Turn.” This is not the mix Tom Tatman did for South East Records' Iowa Compilation. It's available…
Read MoreSLY STONE: Yet another version of the Grammy story. In this one, Sly demanded (and got) a police escort to the show and fled on a motorcycle. And I finally found (with…
Read MoreABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY (yesterday) is observed today. In his prosecution of the Civil War, Pres. Lincoln seized the telegraph lines, suspended habeas corpus and issued an order prohibiting the printing of war…
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