PATE REUNION WATCH: Conditions have created a significant risk of a band reunion occurring in early July 2013. Pate is looking for input from friends and fans via the Claude Pate Facebook page.  I have also…

ANDY WILLIAMS, the affable, boyishly handsome crooner who defined both easy listening and wholesome, easygoing charm for many American pop music fans in the 1960s, most notably with his signature song, "Moon…

JOEY RAMONE: The posthumous video for "New York City" goes there, with a truckload of cameos. BETTY LaVETTE is advance streaming Thankful N' Thoughtful. GRIZZLY BEAR played DC's 9:30 Club; you can stream the…

BEST COAST covers "About a Girl," still one of my favorite Nirvana tracks. NEW RELEASES from Dum Dum Girls, Jason Collett, Crine & the City Solution, Suzanne Vega and more are streaming this…

THE SEX PISTOLS: "Holiday In the Sun" footage unseen for 35 years. MATT & KIM are advance streaming Lightning. BETH ORTON is advance streaming the Sugaring Season. THE HEAD AND THE HEART…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE GO-GOs!  They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.…

WILCO drops an animated video for "Sunloathe." ANIMAL COLLECTIVE perform a stripped down set featuring tracks from their brand-new full length "Centipede Hz" on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios in NYC.…

CAT POWER goes dystopian post-apocalyptic in "Cheokee." GRIZZLY BEAR visited WNYC Soundcheck to play songs from Shields, including the rollicking "Sleeping Ute" and the keyboard-rich pop of "A Simple Answer." CLARE &…

THE BEN FOLDS FIVE enlists the Fraggles, Anna Kendrick, Rob Corddry, and Chris Hardwick for "Do It Anyway." NEW RELEASES from Ben Folds Five, Band of Horses, Paul Simon, James Iha, Natural…

HOSPITALITY shares a race-y video on "Eighth Avenue." BAND OF HORSES played World Cafe Live; you can stream the gig on demand. THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA is advance streaming Island of Echoes.…