THE 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…

FOXYGEN pays tribute to "San Francisco," sans flowers in their hair. CHRISTOPHER OWENS (ex-Girls) is advance streaming Lysandre, an early candidate for one of 2013's best. Owens talks about his life and…

BEACH HOUSE droppped a homemade video for "New Year" for the new year. YO LA TENGO is advance streaming Fade. CODY CHESNUTT stops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. PEOPLE…

OVER 15 MILLION SERVED. This past month in particular has been very big for the site, with yesterday setting a new traffic record. Thanks for stopping by… and stay tuned for more…

JACK WHITE, Live on Austin City Limits. THE LONE BELLOW is advance streaming their self-titled debut. INDIANS are advance streaming Somewhere Else. FLUXBLOG has posted a 10-disc, 191-song, 2012 Survey Mix. LOCAL…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE REPLACEMENTS! Well, sort of. Color Me Obsessed doesn't feature any of the influential indie band's members, or a note of their alternately anarchic and aching music.  Rather, the…

J.D. McPHERSON recently blew the roof off the Ed Sullivan Theater with "Fire Bug." DROPKICK MURPHYS are advance streaming Signed And Sealed In Blood. MIGUEL played a Tiny Desk Concert at the…

VERONICA FALLS has a video out for the jangling "Teenage," ahead of an LP due in February. ERIN McKEOWN is advance streaming Manifestra. BROADCAST is posthumously streaming Berberian Sound Studio. SOUND OPINIONS:…

THE NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND STARTS HERE (see y'all next Wednesday): …with THE BEAT FARMERS!  Making a tradition of this more sober than usual, professionally-shot, early BF gig recorded at Universal Studios, including "There She…

DIRTY PROJECTORS launch a video for "Offspring Are Blank." OF MONSTERS AND MEN piles into WNYC Soundcheck for a mini-set. DAVID BAZAN and band stopped by KEXP to play a dynamic set…