LEMON PIPERS: "Green Tambourine." BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT has Trashcan Sinatras, The Durutti Column, Shearwater, and more. WOLF ALICE covers The Roches' "Hammond Song."  SEASICK STEVE shares "Bootstraps."  CLUB 8 shares "The Sweetness…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles,…

PILOT works their "Magic" on TOTP.  DRY CLEANING plays KEXP.  DINOSAUR JR shares "Blowin' Up."  PETER GABRIEL shares the Bright-Side mix of "One By One."  BLONDE REDHEAD shares "Blood Spilled."  SMIDLEY shares…

FATBOY SLIM: When your "Weapon of Choice" is Walken. THE WAR AND TREATY play a Tiny Desk Concert.  RICHARD THOMPSON returns with "Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking." His most rocking thing in a…

THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday. THUNDERCAT vists World Cafe.  MICHAEL STIPE barely shares "Hum…

THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh. NEW RELEASES: Paste will point you to Sam & Louise Sullivan, Punch Bros., and more.  BILL'S INDIE BASEMENT…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: with MUSIC TELEVISION!  The cable phenom debuted next weekend in 1981. The first four hours included The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," while the rest of the…

ADAM & THE ANTS: "Dog Eat Dog." Gonna look real good (yeah, right). CARDINALS plays KEXP.  THE AFGHAN WHIGS SHARES "My Lover."  THE TUBS shares "Stoop To Me." ELEPHANT STONE shares “I Got…

ELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head." THE WEDDING PRESENT plays KEXP.  THE GOODS shares "Summer's Almost Gone."  BUDDY MILLER shares "Don't Look Back."  GREG FREEMAN shares "Indu."  SYLVAN…

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, cranking out "I Don't Let The Little Things Get Me Down" and "Rock & Roll Pest Control" raw for Twofer Tuesday. AVALON EMERSON & THE CHARM plays World…