TAKING A PERSONAL DAY, but did want to note that Joni Mitchell is apparently in intensive care undergoing tests and is awake and in good spirits. I can't help but wonder if…

THE MUPPETS cover Digital Underground's  "Humpty Dance" via the magic of video editing. THE GO! TEAM advance streams Between The Scene Between – an alternate vesrion of the latest LP. UPSET advance…

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA drops a video for "Multi-Love." AMERICAN WRESTLERS advance stream their self-titled debut. TORO Y MOI advance streams What For? DRENGE advance streams Undertow. JOHNNY JEWEL advance streams the soundtrack…

BEN GIBBARD covers Guided By Voices' "Tractor Rape Chain." THE MOUNTAIN GOATS advance stream Beat The Champ. WAXAHATCHEE advance streams Ivy Tripp. JESSIE BAYLIN advance streams Dark Place. SAY LOU LOU advance…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: … with THE BYRDS!  Pretty much because I dig them as we turn into Spring (or Fall).  Let's start with a rare 1965 clip of their breakthrough smash…

KING TUFF drops a video for "Madness." BEST COAST perform on the Public Radio Day Stage at SXSW. GANG OF FOUR perform on the Public Radio Day Stage at SXSW. TWIN SHADOW…

TWEEDY plays "World Away" for Conan. LOST BOY? advance streams Canned.  THE STAVES advance stream If I Was.  GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR advance streams Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress.  WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE…

JACK WHITE backs ROBERT PLANT on "The Lemon Song." RYLEY WALKER'S Primrose Green is streaming at NPR. SIMON JOYNER is advance streaming Grass, Branch & Bone. COURTNEY BARNETT plays Stubb's BBQ in…

JON PRATT: Pate's frontman plays one "Halfway to Memphis" on a 1929 Regal Parlor to guitar to open his new website. VAN MORRISON is advance streaming Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue. SUFJAN STEVENS…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with TRAFFIC!  Live in Santa Monica, circa 1972, flagged by my online pal Jay. Your setlist includes: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys; Light Up or Leave Me…