Month June 2007

THE WEEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE KINKS!  Having recently posted some less obvious Stones clips, I thought I'd do the same here, with songs like "I Gotta Move" (from Shindig!), and softer fare…

SHOCKING BLUE play a rare, raw, live version of signature tune "Venus" on Dutch TV.  Sounds more like the Jefferson Airplane. ZUMPANO — A.C. Newman's band before the New Pornographers — gets…

GNARLS BARKLEY + THEREMIN = "Crazy" delicious! THE WHITE STRIPES:  Icky Thump hits the stores next week, but you can stream it all now via MTV. CRUISIN':  Why settle for Capt. Stubing's…

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS have released a stop-motion clip for "With the Dark" from the forthcoming album, The Else. NEW RELEASES:  Queens of the Stone Age, O'Death, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, country…

DUNGEN brew up an old skool psychedelic clip for "Familj" from the Tio Bitar album.  Guitarist Reine Fiske is interviewed by Stylus about the band, Swedish psychedelia, and more. THE MEAT PUPPETS get…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE PIPETTES!  I just got back from seeing them play a packed house at the Empty Bottle in Chicago (previewed by Jim DeRogatis for the Sun-Times) and boy,…

LOU REED joined BRIGHT EYES for a cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man" at NYC's Town Hall on May 25th.  Here's a longer, alternate take with less distorted sound,…

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE has released a video-less video for "Running Away" from the upcoming LP The Fragile Army, featuring over 70K still photos from a ten-day tour. THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS' long out-of-print live…

THE BEES, a/k/a Band of Bees release their Octopus in the US today, so here's their countrified-bus-tour-through-The-Life-Aquatic video for "Who Cares What The Question Is?"  Add in the more soul-influenced "Listening Man"…

SGT. PEPPER TURNED 40 over the weekend.  Russ Smith has a general overview of the album's place in rock history for the Wall Street Journal, while Daniel J. Levitin, author of This…