Year 2018

THE WHO: "I'm A Boy." KACEY MUSGRAVES stops by World Cafe. BOYGENIUS plays a live KEXP session. JENNY & THE MEXICATS play a Tiny Desk Concert.   SPEEDY ORTIZ features claymation coyotes…

JASON and the SCORCHERS cover "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and play "Harvest Moon" for Twofer Tuesday. ELTON JOHN, Live at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Nov. 26, 1970. MAGGIE ROGERS stops by The Current.…

JON PRATT: When not redefining the kilogram, he's reinventing the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?" JANELLE MONAE plays Austin City Limits. SOCCER MOMMY plays a mini-set at Iceland Airways. TOM MORELLO stops…

THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE… with FAVES 2018!  I occasionally hear from folks who want to know what music — from among all of the posts I do here — I recommend.  To some…

NEIL DIAMOND performed "I'm A Believer" and " "Solitary Man" during a secret 2014 show at Erasmus Hall High School, where Diamond attended for two years. THE MARKED MEN streams a singles…

AS YOU WISH: WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald tops the chart with 62.2MM, a slice less than the 74.4MM of the last one. This playing more like a…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: …with THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND!  A two-part (Part 1, Part 2) feature from the Old Grey Whistle Test on L.A.'s psychedelic-flavored, West Coast scene in the mid-80s. Bands featured include the Long Ryders, Prime Movers,…

THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS cover "Six Days on the Road." THE SELECTER visits Morning Becomes Eclectic. NATALIE PRASS plays a mini-set at Iceland Airwaves. GRETCHEN PETERS plays the Mountain Stage. THE TWILIGHT…

JIMMY RUFFIN asks "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?" AXIS: SOVA advance streams the new wavey Shampoo You. LEON BRIDGES visits Morning Becomes Eclectic. THE RACCOONISTS: Jeff Tweedy and his sons cover George…

I was going to largely skip today due to the slowness of news and the press of my schedule Monday, but… STAN LEE, who as chief writer and editor of Marvel Comics…