OFF! dropped a video for “Over Our Heads” featuring Jack Black, skydiving, LSD, gore, a grizzly bear, and more… EX HEX performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. STRAND OF OAKS performs on Soundcheck in…

JOHN LENNON: "(Just Like) Starting Over." J MASCIS played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. FRANKIE ROSE performs live in the KEXP Studio. FRAZEY FORD joined KEXP listeners in…

SEAN ROWE covers Richard Thompson's classic "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," live in Troy, NY. RYAN ADAMS and his band performed an extensive set for WFUV at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incompete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel,"…

IAN McLAGAN, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, keyboardist for the Faces and Small Faces, Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones (to name but a few), has passed away in Austin TX…

BOBBY KEYS, longtime saxophone player, session musician and touring member of the Rolling Stones, has died in rural Tennessee at age 70.  Though he's undoubtedly best known for playing on classic Stones…

OF MONTREAL's Kevin Barnes covered David Bowie's “Moonage Daydream” and “Hang Onto Yourself” at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago. WILCO is streaming all four discs of Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks…

SHE & HIM drop a video for "Stay Awhile." LOS CAMPESINOS! advance streams their Christmas EP. THE BAND: Genuine Bootleg Series 4: Crossing The Great Divide. WHEN I REACH THAT HEAVENLY SHORE:…

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE… with FAVES 2014!  I occasionally hear from folks who want to know what music — from among all of the posts I do here — I recommend.  To some…

THE DECEMBERISTS drop a video for "Make You Better," ft. Nick Offerman, tht mashes up the OGWT with Rockpalast, two shows known to regular Pate visitors. AC/DC is streaming Rock or Bust…