YOUR WEEKEND STARTS HERE:FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: Today, we're kickin' it old skool adventure style in the Crimson Room.DYLAN DAYS kick off today in Hibbing, proving that Bob Z is the exception to the…
Read MoreREVENGE OF THE SITH opens wide today, as you have undoubtedly heard many times over. But did you know that Darth Vader is one of the grotesques on Washington's National Cathedral? No,…
Read MoreTHE FLAMING LIPS documentary, The Fearless Freaks, gets a boffo write-up at Digitally Obsessed: “Considering the rampant acclaim, I would expect the Flaming Lips to posture at least a bit regarding their…
Read MoreTOP 25 ONE-HIT WONDERS OF THE NINETIES, courtesy of Glide magazine, via Stereogum. Anyone who saw Trip Shakespeare play their first gig outside the Twin Cities at the M-Shop has to have…
Read MoreFEIST: Leslie Feist is profiled in the Boston Globe. Asked about her genre-bending solo disc, Feist says, ''Willie Nelson is country, but is he really? He's a great jazz guitarist and writes…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: REVENGE OF THE SITH: As some of you learned, I attended the advance screening Thursday night. There will be no spoilers in this first part of my review;…
Read MoreFEIST: The Mpls/St. Paul City Pages says Leslie Feist's Let It Die is “make-out music for the whole family,” though I think that's meant as a compliment.BEATLE PAUL, BONO, GREGG ALLMAN and…
Read MoreSTONES ROLL: Mick Jagger, fellow Lord of the Undead Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood announced their tour plans with an early-bird special at the Julliard school. The tour will begin…
Read MoreTHE REV. BONO: Jim DeRogatis found U2's first of four concerts in Chicago “every bit as phony, bombastic and manipulative as a Britney Spears concert, the Republican National Convention or a televangelist's…
Read MoreTHE FLAMING LIPS are tackling “Bohemian Rhapsody” for a Queen tribute disc. I hope that doesn't put percussionist Steve Drozd back on the horse.CBGB AND TALKING HEADS: Stereogum links to a site…
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