CALEXICO dropped a video for "Para," an advance track from Algiers. EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS play Morning Becomes Eclectic in front of a live audience at Apogee's Berkeley Street Studios.…

EUGENE McGUINNESS covers Lana Del Rey's "Blue Jeans." METRIC is advance streaming Synthetica. THE dB's are advance streaming Falling Off the Sky. Woo Hoo! (Thx, Ken King!) JOACHIM COODER: Ry's son also…

JOHNNY DEPP joined THE BLACK KEYS for "Gold On The Ceiling" at the MTV Movie Awards. NEW RELEASES from The Hives, Walkmen, Temper Trap, Beach Boys, Rhett Miller, Langhorne Slim, Alejandro Escovedo,…

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE cover Talking Heads' "Wild Wild Life" to promote the UK's Bestival. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH is advance streaming There's No Leaving Now. BOBBY WOMACK is advance streaming…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE YARDBIRDS! Live circa 1967, featuring someone the announcer calls "Timmy Page."  Your setlist inlcudes "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Over Under Sideways Down," and…

YESTERDAY was our biggest traffic day ever.  Thanks to our regular readers, web-crawling robots and creepy stalkers! ALAN SPARHAWK (Low) & THE PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT play Sucidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized" for The A.V.…

SLEIGH BELLS' latest video is for "Demons." NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE are streaming Americana, a collection of folk classics. EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS stopped by The Current for a…

GIVERS & DICKIE LANDRY team up cajun-style on Paul Simon's "That Was Your Mother" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Graceland. NEW RELEASES from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Regina Spektor,…

MEMORIAL DAY has become — in the minds of some — a day devoted to uncovering their swimming pools and barbeques. So take a moment (preferably at 3 p.m. local time) to…

THE LONG WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with POWER POP! A few of these may be well-known generally, like Cheap Trick's  "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"… and some well-known…