ART BRUT fans have started a petition for the band to play its “Top of the Pops” on TOTP before the show ends its 42-year run next month. Unfortunately, the song does…
Read MoreROBERT POLLARD, hiding under the name Townshend Research, played Schuba's in Chicago on the 22nd. The sound is bad, but you're right up front for the GbV classic “Game of Pricks.” And…
Read MoreMORE AWESOME MUSIC VIDEOS: Or, as Modern Demogogue titled its list, “50+ Music Videos Thare Are More Awesome Than The Ones on Pitchfork's Crappy List.” MD certainly makes me wonder how the…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with THE JAM. Original Pate drummer Ron Hahm pointed me to an absolute trove on YouTube, including the band's final TV appearance on The Tube from late 1982. It…
Read MoreRADIOHEAD debuted a new song, “All I Need,” in Chicago and it's turned up on YouTube (for now). The sound, which is surprisingly good for a bootleg video, has also turned up…
Read MoreMY MORNING JACKET played “Gideon” with members of the Boston Pops on The Late Show with David Letterman earlier this month and it's still on YouTube. The Cat Power clip is also…
Read MoreSONIC YOUTH played the 9:30 Club in DC last week, so you can stream it now from NPR. The show features material from Rather Ripped, which Thurston Moore discusses in MAGNET magazine.…
Read MoreECHO & THE BUNNYMEN pick up where your precious Echo left off with this Velvet-y piece of pop goodness, “Stormy Weather” on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. If CBS's lawyers…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with IKE & TINA TURNER: Because we never do things here nice and easy, let's start things with two hot live performances of “Proud Mary” and “River Deep, Mountain…
Read MoreTHE REPLACEMENTS' Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (streaming in full from AOL Music this week) got an impressive 8.8 in an insightful review on the Pitchfork: “The Replacements were…
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