SPARKLEHORSE: Mark Linkous took his own life over the weekend, an event all the more tragic in light of his near-death experience in the Nineties. Many will pay tribute by linking his…
Read MoreTHE 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…
Read MoreOK GO goes Rube Goldberg in the video for "This Too Shall Pass." SxSW: There's a streaming mix of 100 picks to click from festival artists at NPR. PHANTOGRAM stopped by The…
Read MoreMEYER HAWTHORNE: "I Wish it Would Rain" is not the Temptations classic, but I'm pretty sure he knows about it. THE MORNING BENDERS are advance streaming the Big Echo album. TITUS ANDRONICUS is…
Read MoreTOM "T-BONE" WOLK, who played bass for nearly 30 years with Daryl Hall and John Oates, led the SNL band from 1986-92, and recorded with Elvis Costello, Billy Joel and many more, died…
Read MoreSHANE MacGOWAN & FRIENDS (including Johnny Depp, Chrissie Hynde, Nick Cave, Primal Screamer Bobby Gillespie, the Clash's Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Paloma Faith, and Eliza Doolittle) cover "I Put a Spell on…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …at the DEVOLYMPICS! Devo plays live in Vancouver for the Games, before a crowd sporting the new-look blue Energy Domes. Your set list includes "Gates of Steel," "Uncontrollable…
Read MoreTHE RAVEONETTES have a brand new video for "Heart of Stone." FRIGHTENED RABBIT is advance streaming The Winter of Mixed Drinks. DR. DOG played the Mountain Stage; you can stream the gig…
Read MoreFEIST debuted "He Was Free" at the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Sneaky-cam was there. JOANNA NEWSOM is streaming her new Have One on Me triple-LP via NPR. SHE & HIM drop "Thieves" as an…
Read MoreBETTIE SERVEERT "Deny All" and rock out in this video. Their first LP in four years comes out here in March. NEW RELEASES: Alkaline Trio, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Buzzcocks, Clem Snide,…
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