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Probably the best in-store appearance footage ever. A fat, middle aged dude nearly looses it at a recent record signing in San Bernadino , C...

The idea of a band performing one of their classic albums live and in its entirety is a novel one and something I enjoy immensely. I have tw...

My copy of Deerhunter’s Microcastle came with a bonus disc, Weird Era Cont. I spun Microcastle a few times, fell in love with it, and in t...

The running gag may be the notion that Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox is somehow recoiling from the “fame” that all of the critical praise...

Jay Bennett certainly was not very flattering in I Am Going To Break Your Heart . The constant bitching, ill advised comments (“easy rockers...

I only post this because, until Cousin J forwarded me the article, I assumed that Brent Hinds’ head injury was the result of drunken shenani...

For you younger fans of rock ‘n roll this may be hard to believe, but at one time Aerosmith was a very, very, good band. In fact, between ’7...

Hard to believe, but for a while Vanilla Fudge’s debut was one of Atco Records biggest selling albums until people put down the bong long en...

Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke . Before that, I really didn'...

When he’s not beating whores who bite his tongue , Vince Offer, better known as the Sham Wow! dude, is pitching products in both his native ...

Paul Lamere is a badass who is much smarter than me and who runs a nifty website about music technology called Music Machinery. One of his m...

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the death of Ron Asheton hasn’t slowed down Mike Watt. The bassist is in the van once again, testing the w...

Happy Anniversary baby. Got you on my….Mind. Saw Over The Edge this weekend. First time in, like, twenty-eight years. I suppose I should le...

Isolation this weekend. I got back around 8:00pm Friday night after the Chicago gig (more on that later) and basically brought my bag up to ...

The story goes that when Marvin Gaye was making What’s Going On , Barry Gordy sent Smokey Robinson to check up on him to see how the artist ...

If you were a fan of rock and roll in the early 80’s, you at least heard about The Plasmatics. It was hard to avoid them, as the band’s subv...

Confessions. If it were not for the Dead Kennedys, I wouldn’t know who Harvey Milk even was. And if it weren’t for a new film starring Sean ...

It’s truly the end of an era for me as the land man standing was forced to sit down. Brad Company-aka Brad Dennison-aka Blake Davis-aka Soli...

Leftsez beat me to it, but trust me, I was going to blog about the HBO documentary Thrilla In Manila anyway, a film that focuses on the rel...

You know, it just seemed too good to be true when it was announced that the Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize?!” was voted to become the officia...