SEEN YOUR VIDEO: The Essential Roy Orbison, a career-spanning, double-disc collection comes out today. So why not an extended version of “(Oh) Pretty Woman,” on which Roy is backed by an all-star…
Read MoreBUCK OWENS, whose Bakersfield sound wound up being one of the blueprints for modern country, passed away at 76. The Washington Post has a nice piece on Owens' road back from Hee-Haw.…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:KINKS KOMMERCIALS: Though everyone thinks of Pete Townshend doing The Who Sell Out, we're increasingly hearing Ray Davies placing Kinks songs for ads, including “All Day and All of…
Read MoreTHE FLAMING LIPS played “Bohemian Rhapsody” during a surprise show at SXSW. Stereogum has onstage video. KissAtlanta has it in Quicktime. Take Your Medicine is killing music with a MP3 download. You…
Read MoreTHE NATIONAL: Singer Matt Berninger says that the slow-building success of the Alligator album may be due to the band picking the songs that held their interest the longest, which were not…
Read MoreTHE PIPETTES have married their classic girl group sound with the production skills of Gareth Parton (The Go! Team) and Andy Dragazis (Blue States) for the positively infectious “Your Kisses Are Wasted…
Read MoreSEEN YOUR VIDEO: The Eagles of Death Metal video, “I Want You So Hard,” with appearances from Jack Black, Dave Grohl and Elisha Cuthbert, in Real, Windows, or in Quicktime. (credit Golden…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:SEEN YOUR VIDEO: My main concession to St. Patrick's Day is to hook you up with plenty of The Pogues. YouTube has studio videos of “Sally MacLennane” (one of…
Read MoreSXSW XX: Welcome to Day Two of my virtual visit to SXSW 2006. If I was going with Pate drummer Jon Hahn or Sylvia Hauser, we would probably spend most of the…
Read MoreSXSW XX: The musical part of South By Southwest kicks off today in Austin TX. I won't be there, but thought it would be fun to pretend I was and figure out…
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