COLD WAR KIDS make "Something Is Not Right With Me" the first video from their new album. REGINA SPEKTOR played a set at Mountain Stage; you can stream the whole gig on demand…
Read MoreNOAH AND THE WHALE go for a Wes Anderson look in the video for the infectious "Five Years Time." The song, which has been used in a Saturn commercial, appears on the band's…
Read MoreTV ON THE RADIO releases Dear Science today; the new video is "Golden Age." NEW RELEASES: The Raveonettes, Blitzen Trapper, Golden Smog, Old Crow Medicine Show and Cold War Kids are among those with albums streaming…
Read MoreEARL PALMER, a legendary session drummer who manned the throne on songs from "Tutti Fruitti," "Something Else," "I'm Walkin'" and "La Bamba" to "Dead Man's Curve," "River Deep, Mountain High" and "You've…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with 120 MINUTES! With MTV cancelling Total Request Live, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the network's alt-rock show (a "dumping ground…
Read MoreNORMAN WHITFIELD, one of the creators of the Motown sound and the psychedlic soul sound of the late 60s, died Tuesday of complications from his long struggle with diabetes at age 67. He was…
Read MoreBLACK KIDS & CUT COPY join forces on a cover of Blondie's "Union City Blue." It put me in the mood to hear the original, too. CALEXICO: Joey Burns tlks to PopMatters…
Read MoreRICHARD WRIGHT, the founding member of Pink Floyd whose piano and synthesizer work played a critical part in the pioneering British psychedelic rock band's ethereal sound, died Monday after a short battle…
Read MoreBRIAN WILSON & ZOOEY DESCHANEL interview each other at the Hollywood Bowl as part of the "Artist on Artist" series. And Wilson is relatively normal for it. He does tell Deschanel that she's…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with HUSKER DU! Recorded live at the Stone in San Francisco, on March 1, 1985. Part 1 includes "Diane" "Hate Paper Doll" and "Green Eyes." Part 2 includes "Divide and Conquer,"…
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