THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……WITH R.E.M. and friends. Those rumors about Bill Berry retaking the throne will build now that the original foursone hit an Athens, GA studio with producer David Barbe to…
Read MoreTHE REPLACEMENTS' classic appearance on The Show That Cannot Be Named is back online, with Paul Westerberg dropping an F-bomb just off-mic during the anthemic “Bastards of Young.” That probably got the…
Read MoreTHE BEN FOLDS FIVE: Something about the spring-like weather put me in the mood to hear the BFF play “Kate.” This performance is from Sessions at West 54th. The song is from…
Read MoreBIG BLACK: I was unable to attend the Touch & Go label's 25th anniversary concerts, but YouTube has clips of Big Black (including my ol' classmate, Santiago Durango), palying “Dead Billy,” “Cables”…
Read More9/11, FIVE YEARS LATER: There is a lot of video from the day posted on YouTube. WCBS in NYC has also posted raw video at its website. You probably have not seen…
Read MoreTHE WEEKEND STARTS HERE……with some bootleg LED ZEPPELIN from the LA Forum in 1977 with Keith Moon lending a hand or two on a “Whole Lotta Love/Rock 'N Roll” medley.THE REPLACEMENTS: Captain's…
Read MoreMY BEST FRIEND'S GIRL used to be a staple of Pate's infamous “three-chord medley,” so I thought I would pair this 1978 German TV performance from The Cars with a shambolic cover…
Read MoreM WARD explains to the Village Voice why Post-War isn't a very political album: “I've never been that interested in recording the sound of me getting something off of my chest. I'm…
Read MoreTHE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS tanked in the ratings, down 28 percent from last year and almost 50 percent from two years ago. Maybe they should have had more than a minute…
Read More…So here's an all musical entry for your holiday enjoyment. I'll be back at full steam Tuesday.HAPPY LABOR DAY: I could only find the audio for Billy Bragg's take on “There Is…
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