LITTLE RICHARD, a/k/a Richard Penniman, who combined the sacred shouts of the black church and the profane sounds of the blues to create some of the world’s first and most influential rock…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with XTC! Live on Rockpalast, February 10, 1982. Your setlist includes: "Respectable Street" (still one of my faves), "Towers of London," "Runaways," "Jason and the Argonauts," "Burning…
Read MoreTHE TEMPTATIONS gallop through "I Can't Get Next to You" live on TOTP. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley play virtually for The Current. WAXAHATCHEE guests on World Cafe. MARISSA NADLER…
Read MoreTHE BONGOS: "Numbers With Wings" was nominated for Best Direction at the first MTV Video Awards. DISCHORD RECORDS, home to Minor Threat, Fugazi, and more, are streaming their entire catalog. VIC CHESNUTT, backed…
Read MoreCINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: …with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our…
Read MoreTHE KINKS are "The Village Green Preservation Society." God bless 'em. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Car Seat Headrest, Deerhoof, Diet Cig, and more. BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT will point you…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with SQUEEZE! Despite a new LP, some of you whippersnappers may never heard of Difford, Tilbrook & Co., who previously reeled of stellar string of pop gems, including "Take…
Read MoreTHE SMITHEREENS: "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" Live on TheTube, 1987. EARLY JAMES visits World Cafe. DAUGHTER OF SWORDS plays a Tiny Desk Concert. BRIAN WILSON presents SMiLE live, in November 2004.…
Read MoreJON PRATT covers Steve Goodman's "You're The Girl I Love." JEFF TWEEDY & SONS cover Pavement's "Cut Your Hair" and Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You." ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Khruangbin, Lucinda Williams, Protomartyr, and…
Read MoreJACKIE WILSON performs "Higher and Higher" plus "Lonely Teardrops" for Twofer Tuesday, introduced by Del Shannon and Roy Orbison. (via Pate's Jon Hahn) M WARD visits World Cafe. THE NATIONAL, playing High…
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