Okkervil River’s Will Sheff posted a fantastic essay on his “very-favorite-ever cinematic document of a rock and roll band” which happens to be “a 10-dollar import DVD of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show doing a live-for-German-TV performance sometime in 1974.” It’s interesting timing, because just a couple months ago GLONO co-founder Derek Phillips, who [...]

Let’s put politics aside for a moment and just appreciate that this guy is smooth. Years after Clinton squawking away on a sax and eight arduous years of Bush trying to dance (or whatever that is), we finally have a President with at least a hint of musical acumen. Making the rounds this week is [...]

Even though I’ve spent my fair share of time in packed vans and cars driving to shows through snow and ice and overheated engines and speed-traps…I still love to read about other people’s experiences on the road. Throw in a healthy dose of frizzy hair and bell-bottoms and I’m hooked. I stumbled across this gem [...]

When I was a kid—and I mean, when I was eight or nine years old—I told anyone who would listen that if I ever had kids I would name them after The Beatles. And I meant all of The Beatles, even Ringo. But I was a kid and what did I know? I grew up [...]

As someone who loves old stuff, especially old musical instruments, this is hard to read: A massive cache of musical treasures that’s grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for “The Green Hornet” radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn [...]

Only In Wet Dreams: What I Learned About Sex From Weezer by Jillian Mapes. This is a must-read for all hardcore O.G. Weezer fans. Mapes first heard Pinkerton when she was 13 and became obsessed. She later came across the notorious “Peepshow” interview with Rivers Cuomo and learned all kinds of dirty things about her [...]

The Digital Music News blog has fascinating animated pie-charts showing the consolidation and eventual fracturing of media sales in the music industry. Compiled with US-based data, each pie represents 100% of total recording revenue. Click through to watch how the rise of CDs all but obliterated all media types a decade ago only to be [...]

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Album sales for week ending Jan. 30. #1: Amos Lee, 40,000.

New releases from David Lowery, the Civil Wars, et al.