BRYAN FERRY talks to London's Telegraph about his upcoming album of Dylan covers.  Ferry is no stranger to covers, natch — as the clips of  "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (featuring Anna Nicole Smith)…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE MEKONS!  The ever-reliable Wikipedia calls them "one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk rock bands," though they have incorporated elements of…

THE SPINTO BAND'S  latest video — for "Brown Boxes" — is so very them. BOB DYLAN comes off as kinder and gentler in a new version of D.A. Pennebaker's famed documentary Don't Look…

IGGY POP claims he is struggling to get his kicks in old age, but when I hear new  Stooges' tracks like "The Weirdness" or  "Free and Freaky" (Real | Win), it sounds like he's…

TWOFER TUESDAY:  From the "Where Are They Now?" file leap The Jags, with "Back Of My Hand," which used to play most mornings on WLUP in Spring 1980, iirc.  There's also the uber-rare "Party…

THE FLAMING LIPS and PETE TOWNSEND play "Baba O'Riley" unplugged on "In The Attic" backstage at the V Festival in Baltimore.  ALSO: Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is on NPR's Morning Edition today,…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with DANNY & DUSTY, a rootsy alt-supergroup fronted by Dan Stuart (Green on Red) and Steve "Dusty" Wynn (Dream Syndicate) and backed by members of those bands and The…

DAVID VANDERVELDE brings the glam on "Jacket."  Even better, you can stream his whole debut album as I write this. ELVIS PERKINS gets a mini-set at the World Cafe, which you can…

THE KILLERS cover the Dire Straits classic "Romeo and Juliet" at the venerable Abbey Road Studios in London.  I was always more partial to "Skateaway." NEW RELEASES:  Full albums from Harlem Shakes, Luscious Jackson,…

JARVIS COCKER closed his Shockwaves NME Awards Show gig with covers of Talking Heads' "Heaven" and Black Sabbath's "Paranoid." NEW RELEASES:  It seems that folks took the Presidents Day holiday to slack on posting good…