THE BEAT FARMERS: I featured an early live set from them a couple of Fridays ago, but here's a Joey Harris-era studio clip of the wonderful "Hollywood Hills," introduced by Country Dick Montana. SONIC YOUTH: Thurston…
Read MoreBORN TO RUN: The album was good, but it could have used a little more glockenspiel. Via WFMU, which can hook you up with even more glockenspiel. LOW and LONEY, DEAR played DC's…
Read MoreCOCOROSIE, the sister duo that belnds folk, opera, electronics and scratchy hip-hop, play "Promise" from The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn, which comes out today. London's Telegraph had a dinner with the duo, in…
Read MoreTHE HOLD STEADY, oft compared to the E Street Band, got to join The Boss onstage at the end of a Springsteen tribute concert. There's some bootleg video of Craig Finn helping out on "Rosalita." There's…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with WARREN ZEVON! I was remiss in failing to mention that some of Zevon's best known albums were re-issued last week, along with the fine live LP, Stand…
Read MoreROBYN HITCHCOCK and the EGYPTIANS play "I Got A Message For You," "Uncorrected Personality Traits" and "Listening to the Higsons" at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit Michigan on April 7, 1988. Robyn…
Read MoreTHE APPLES IN STEREO have a new animated video for "Can You Feel It?" Chock full of ad references; the Maxell man makes a cameo. KEITH RICHARDS, LORD of the UNDEAD: His secret…
Read MoreBREATHE: The Shins covered the Pink Floyd classic at the Kentish Town Hall last week. The Jeffito blog has posted a Floyd gig from 1975, which you can stream via the ol'…
Read MoreTHE DECEMBERISTS frontman Colin Meloy cites a fairly obscure song by Robyn Hitchcock, "The Ghost Ship," as a major influence on his songwriting. So it's no wonder that Meloy was all smiles…
Read MoreWILCO plans to stream the upcoming Sky Blue Sky in its entirety for most all of Sunday, so if you missed it before, here's another chance.
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