Month December 2014

THE NEW YEAR STARTS HERE (see y'all Friday. Or Monday. Not sure yet.): …with THE BEAT FARMERS!  Making a tradition of this more sober than usual, professionally-shot, early BF gig recorded at Universal Studios,…

KING TUFF played "Eyes of the Muse" for Conan. WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. SUZANNE VEGA played Holiday Cheer for WFUV at the Beacon Theater. JONATHAN WILSO…

RYAN ADAMS & JENNY LEWIS played "She's Not Me" and "Just One of the Guys" for Kimmel. CONOR OBERST played Holiday Cheer fro WFUV at the Beacon Theater. NATALIE MERCHANT played Holiday…

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY STARTS HERE: … with CHRIS ISAAK, live at Universal Studios. Your holiday-themed numbers include "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Hey, Santa," "Last Month of the Year," "Blue Christmas," and "Christmas on…

JOE COCKER, the gravelly British singer who became one of pop’s most recognizable interpreters in the late 1960s and ’70s with passionate, idiosyncratic takes on songs like the Beatles’ “With a Little…

FIRST AID KIT covers R.E.M.'s "Walk Unafraid." LUCINDA WILLIAMS plays a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. TEMPLES stopped by WFUV's Studio A this autumn to play a couple of…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with AIMEE MANN's CHRISTMAS CAROL (profanity warnings): Part One has your Scrooge-y set-up with Michael Penn. Part Two features The Office's John Krasinski. Part Three has Michael Cera.…

I'm taking a personal day today during the busy holiday/end-of-year season, buut should be back tomorrow.   Nevertheless, I did want to offer a few brief comments on the decision by Sony…

ST VINCENT has shared a video for “Birth In Reverse." TV ON THE RADIO played in front of a live audience at Apogee studios. CYMBALS EAT GUITARS stopped by WFUV's Studio A…

PANDA BEAR dropped a video for a new Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper track called “Boys Latin” on Adult Swim. JOHNNY GREENWOOD streams the Inherent Vice soundtrack. D'ANGELO & THE VANGUARD…