Beck is all “I see you jacked my look Michael Cera…” Many reviews of the new two-disc Deluxe Edition of Beck’s 1996 opus Odelay have seemed to include an obligatory Kurt Cobain compare-and-contrast alt-stars of the 90s moment. The standard trope is that Kurt was too raw and full of feeling and fellow blonde skinny [...]
R.E.M. This week’s new music releases lead off with Athens Georgia’s own R.E.M., a band who up until now had nary a live album in their catalog (though they have a couple of excellent live DVD’s.) This album documents their recent mini-tour which also produced some new songs and is cleverly named Live. Fellow Athen-ites [...]
Britt Daniels and company were on America’s longest running trainwreck Saturday Night Live this weekend. Here they are with nifty horn accompaniment doing “The Underdog”: And again doing the awesome “Cherry Bomb” loosely and raggedly:
“Hmmm Bob White…I like the sound of that…” As Rolling Stone Magazine’s website has been breathlessly reporting all week, Jack White has taken to sharing a stage with Bob Dylan lately and spurring His Greatness to play songs not previously or rarely played live. Could Bob be angling to become Grandpa Bob White? Or perhaps [...]
Don’t believe Black Francis is back and badder than ever? Check out this hot clip of the former Pixies head honcho burning it up with his cover of Fatboy Slims “The Rockafella Skank”. Unbelievable!
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