THE KINKS: "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and "Picture Book," circa 1969, from the album The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, for Twofer Tuesday. WEIRD BLOOM is profiled at World Cafe. …

BO DONALDSON & THE HEYWOODS: "Billy, Don't Be a Hero," from the Summer of '74. Workin' the Elvis jumpsuit look. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to HAIM, Hotline TNT, and more. …

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE… …with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or…

THE MUSIC EXPLOSION: "Little Bit O'Soul." JAPANESE BREAKFAST plays KCRW.  MARK STEWART's posthumous cover of The Korgis’ “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometimes.”   FRUIT BATS shares "Stuck In My Head Again."  STEVE GUNN shares…

STEAM: The one-hit wonder with a synced take on "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." Sorry 'bout those White Sox. THE HEAD AND THE HEART play WFUV.  THE HIVES share "Paint…

THE CARS play "Candy-O" and "The Dangerous Type" for Twofer Tuesday.  HINDS plays KEXP.  RIP VAN WINKLE: Robert Pollard shares "Sh^t-heel Man."  NATION OF LANGUAGE shares "I'm Not Ready For The Change." …

THE FIVE AMERICANS: "I See The Light." NEW RELEASES: Paste has Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Common Holly, and more.  BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THREE DOG NIGHT! Once again, I'm enjoying the guilty pleasure of "Eli's Coming" with fellow fans of the late, lamented SportsNight. That, along with memories of The…

BRIAN WILSON, who as the leader and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys became rock’s poet laureate of surf-and-sun innocence, but also an embodiment of damaged genius through his struggles with mental illness…

BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE: "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."  Because it's summer. Plus, cowbell. FRANZ FERDINAND plays KEXP.  MAVIS STAPLES covers Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed.”   DAVID BYRNE shares "Everybody Laughs."  JAPANESE BREAKFAST shares “My Baby (Got…