Month August 2006

NOW THAT IT'S early late summer, I finally got around to posting the Go-Go's “Vacation” video. Plus, the band's latest Greatest has an updated version of “Cool Jerk,” the Capitols tune the…

ELVIS PRESLEY: The King is still dead, as thousands of fans make the pilgimage to Memphis, TN and Tupelo, MS to reminisce and pay homage o­n the 29th anniversary of his death.…

OK GO's latest video, for “Here It Goes Again” is an internet hit for good reason. Musically, it's somewhere between Cracker and the Kinks, which is not a bad place to be.NEW…

LISTEN (AND WATCH), MY FRIENDS, as the late Mike Douglas introduces Moby Grape playing “Omaha.” Plus, we have the band playing “Hey Grandma,” “Sitting By The Window” and “Sweet Ride (Never Again).”…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE…… with I'M FROM BARCELONA, a 29-member pop collective that actually hails from Sweden, incorporating strings, horns, banjo, accordion, and kazoos into bouncy indie pop with the uplift of…

TOM WAITS almost certainly doesn't care what I thought of last night''s show at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. After all, Waits is considered by some to be one of the world's greatest living…

P.F. SLOAN, who wrote hits like “Secret Agent Man,” “You Baby” — and who can forget Barry McGuire's immortal “Eve of Destruction?” — as well as playing o­n 60s hits like “Let’s…

VIDEOPALOOZA: Clips from last weekend's fest surface o­n YouTube, including some shot from backstage. For example, you can see Gnarls Barkley take the stage to “We Are The Champions” and play “Crazy”…

NOW that you mention it, I am ready for some football…YEP, it's that time of the week again. BONUS: A bit of “Nowhere Man.”ARTHUR LEE of Love passed away, as I noted…

ARTHUR LEE, the enigmatic and volatile frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the legendary Los Angeles psychedelic band Love, best known for the critically revered 1967 album, Forever Changes, has died in a…