SUSANNA 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…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:… with the late, but ever-wicked WILSON PICKETT delivering a blistering performance of “Land of 1000 Dances,” to a fevered crowd, complete with circa-60's stage-diving. Naa, na na na…
Read More…AND THE GRAMMYS WENT TO these folks, with U2 beating out Kanye West for Album of the Year. And the thought balloon above West's head reads, “The music biz doesn't care about…
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