THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with BEN FOLDS! The Ben Folds Five, to be exact, at a gig not to be named to keep the intellectual property cops off scent. Your selections include…

CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE:  …with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our…

ROCKY VOTOLATO & MATT POND PA play the Human League's "Don't You Want Me" for The A.V. Club Undercover. MAN MAN is advance streaming Life Fantastic. WILD BEASTS are advance streaming Smother.…

THE TWILIGHT SINGERS: Greg Dulli & Co. hung out "On The Corner" at the Ed Sullivan Theater. NEW RELEASES from the Beastie Boys, Loudon Wainwright III, Architecture in Helskinki, Cat's Eyes, and…

TITUS ANDRONICUS shows off New Jersey in "No Future Part III: Escape From No Future." OKKERVIL RIVER is advance streaming I Am Very Far. RAPHAEL SAADIQ is advance streaming Stone Rollin'. SCOTT…

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…

TELEKINESIS remakes Belle & Sebastian's "Like Dylan In The Movies" as power-pop for The A.V. Club Undercover. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS performed a video mini-set for Sound Opinions. ROYAL BANGS stopped by The Current…

POLY STYRENE, fmr frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, succumbed to cancer at 53. P-Fork has your A/V linkage, including "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"  Her latest LP, Generation Indigo, dropped yesterday and is streaming…

FERRABY LIONHEART's latest video is for the tuneful "Pocketknife." NEW RELEASES from They Might Be Giants, An Horse, Bootsy Collins, Cass McCombs, The Wombats and Vandaveer, plus a Roy Orbison comp and…

THE STROKES played "Games" for Conan, if not with him. FLEET FOXES are advance streaming Helplessness Blues. THE ANTLERS are advance streaming Burst Apart. HIGH LLAMAS are advance streaming Talahomi Way. BEASTIE…