THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…… is a phrase lifted from the seminal British pop music show Ready Steady Go, which is warmly remembered in London's Guardian. The show's final theme song was Them's…

JAMES HUNTER likes his soul music old school, but he will disagree: “I feel this music is as relevant for people today as it would've been 40 years ago,” he explains. “It…

ANOTHER RARE PATE TRACK, courtesy of Jon Pratt: The original two track master for “My Turn.” This is not the mix Tom Tatman did for South East Records' Iowa Compilation. It's available…

SLY STONE: Yet another version of the Grammy story. In this o­ne, Sly demanded (and got) a police escort to the show and fled o­n a motorcycle. And I finally found (with…

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY (yesterday) is observed today. In his prosecution of the Civil War, Pres. Lincoln seized the telegraph lines, suspended habeas corpus and issued an order prohibiting the printing of war…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:… with the late, but ever-wicked WILSON PICKETT delivering a blistering performance of “Land of 1000 Dances,” to a fevered crowd, complete with circa-60's stage-diving. Naa, na na na…

…AND THE GRAMMYS WENT TO these folks, with U2 beating out Kanye West for Album of the Year. And the thought balloon above West's head reads, “The music biz doesn't care about…

RICHARD THOMPSON was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in London Monday. Thompson also has a big box set out; the AP review suggests it's…

OF MONTREAL, part of the Elephant 6 collective in Athens of the late 1990s — a group of bands like The Apples in Stereo and the Olivia Tremor Control — is now…

SYLVIA HAUSER UPDATE: You old skool Pate fans from Ames may be interested to learn that Sylvia's fiancee is back from the sandbox and they have welcomed an as-yet unnamed Harley-Davidson Softail…