THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with THE ZOMBIES! After all it is the “Time of the Season,” isn't it? Pate use to do a wicked version of that. You can also see the band's…
Read MoreOKKERVIL RIVER: The Black Sheep Boy is part of a scary video for “For Real.” And thanks to Chromewaves, you can also watch it with a commentary track and find out that…
Read MoreFRANK BLACK tells NME that there will be a new Pixies album, provided Kim Deal turns up to rehearse in January. He talks more about his new band with the A.V. Club.…
Read MoreTHE RUNAWAYS' drummer Sandy West has died of lung cancer at 47. Bandmate Joan Jett: “I am overcome from the loss of my friend… She was an exuberant and powerful drummer.” You…
Read MoreTHE ROLLING STONES: With Halloween a little over week away, my thoughts tend to drift toward the Band of the Living Dead. An Aquarium Drunkard has posted a streamable bootleg EP circa…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:…with THE BEAT FARMERS! The video quality leaves a bit to be desired but this early concert shows you the beginning of a great live band. A few years…
Read MoreJEFF TWEEDY apparently made like Keef Richards and clocked a fan who rushed the stage at a Wilco gig in Sprigfield MO. Which is an appropos introduction to the video for “The…
Read MoreDAVID BOWIE and MARIANNE FAITHFULL duet on “I Got You, Babe,” circa 1980. It's definitiely not Groundhog Day.WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCATS? Stereogum is holding a contest to win the original (out of print)…
Read MoreNO CBGB: The New York Times talks to Patti Smith at the start of its piece on the demise of the famed NYC venue that served “as the casual headquarters and dank…
Read Morephoto courtesy of BiblioMama.ART BRUT, WE ARE SCIENTISTS and the SPINTO BAND played Chicago on Thursday. Ken King and I went, but I didn't blurb it Friday for deadline reasons. The show…
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