THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS! Live and ferocious in June 1978, Part 1 includes "Mystery Dance," "Waiting For The End Of The World," and "Lip Service." Part 2…
Read MoreTHE GO! TEAM drops videos for "Secretary Song" and "Super Triangle" in time for Twofer Thursday. CHARLIE LOUVIN, Country Hall of Famer and half of the Louvin Bros. (whose harmonies inspired everybody from…
Read MoreIRON & WINE plays "Tree By The River" in a wine cellar (get it?) for La Blogotheque. Sam Beam is profiled by Pitchfork and talks to Drowned In Sound about the new album. BEYOND…
Read MorePETER BJORN & JOHN drop "Breaker Breaker" as an advance clip for the upcoming album. NEW RELEASES: Iron & Wine, Deerhoof, John Vanderslice, Amanda Palmer and more are streaming this week via Spinner. ESBEN &…
Read MoreSTEVEN TYLER, 62, briefly took the throne to "Walk This Way" with Fallon and The Roots. THE GO! TEAM is advance streaming Rolling Blackouts. LIZ PHAIR stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. …
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with MOTOWN MADNESS! There's so much from which to choose, but let's start with a Martha Reeves and the Vandellas trifecta of "Heat Wave" (on RSG!) "Nowhere to Run"…
Read MoreSHE & HIM drop a video for "Don't Look Back," directed by Jeremy Konner and proving the only thing better than Zooey is four Zooeys. THE DECEMBERISTS played The King is Dead…
Read MoreDON KIRSHNER, who guided the course of Brill Building and bubblegum pop in the 1950s and '60s as a music publisher and promoter, and later served as an Ed Sullivan for 1970s…
Read MoreMETRIC covers Buffalo Springfield's "Expecting to Fly" (N. Young). NEW RELEASES: It's still Mew, British Sea Power, Tapes 'n' Tapes, etc. at Spinner, but they may update it now that MLK Jr.…
Read MoreU2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream. GANG OF FOUR are advance streaming Content, the band's first LP in 15 years. WANDA JACKSON is advance streaming The Party Ain't Over,…
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