GARY “ELVIS” SCHEPERS UPDATE: Pate frontman Jon Pratt and wife Naomi drove 14 hours and endured a Chicago snowstorm to attend one of the week-long series of benefit concerts featuring a veritable…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:WILSON PICKETT — that wicked, wicked Pickett — died of a heart attack at 64. As a teenager, Pickett formed a gospel music group called the Violinaires which toured…
Read MoreBLAKE SENNETT talks about recording his side project The Elected, which is dropping the same day as the solo album from his Rilo Kiley partner, Jenny Lewis: “I guess Jenny's Gene Simmons.…
Read MoreROBERT POLLARD: Newsday's Glenn Gamboa writes: “On his new solo album, From a Compound Eye, Pollard reconnects with the quirkiness of his earlier work without losing the musical momentum he generated with…
Read MoreARCTIC MONKEYS: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not gets a perfect ten from NME: “Essentially this is a stripped-down, punk rock record with every touchstone of Great British Music…
Read MoreGARY “ELVIS” SCHEPERS UPDATE: The New Duncan Imperials, who previously played with the tubaist and soundman in The Service, join the crowd doing benefit concerts to cover healthcare costs associated with his…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…FRIDAY TIMEWASTER: Bugs. Cute. Potentially addictive.THE SPINTO BAND is releasing a new single. I've only mentioned them once before, but they did turn up on a number of “best…
Read MoreWE ARE SCIENTISTS bassist Chris Cain says of the band's buzz: “It's gotta be the cats.” Frontman Keith Murrary has more of the difference between the US and the UK: “Here, our…
Read MoreOKKERVIL RIVER gets an audio feature at NPR with three streaming songs from Black Sheep Boy and Black Sheep Boy Appendix.THE ARCTIC MONKEYS have reached a truce with the Kaiser Chiefs and…
Read MoreWE ARE SCIENTISTS singer Keith Murray talks to Newsday about trying to translate British buzz to success at home. The band's Love and Squalor album comes out today; you may be able…
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