Next Tuesday the long-awaited Beach Boys SMiLE Sessions box set will be released. In advance of this, BBC Radio 4 has conducted an interview with Brian Wilson detailing a bit of the curio and struggle involving the pressure to make a hit song for a label, behind the scenes audio, the drugs used during recording what would be one of rock and roll’s greatest unfinished albums.
It seems the Radiohead duo and the chrome-plated masked rapper will be collaborating on a track for the upcoming LEX Records compilation celebrating their 10th birthday.
Death By Misadventure? I guess here’s where I would make a “Rehab” pun, but I just don’t have it in me on this day. I can’t even begin to imagine what her family has gone through, especially now having to live with a death labeled essentially the closest thing to ‘death by partying.’
Not that Hove and Yeezy don’t have the cash to pay it off or anything. In any case though, that shit cray.
The Stone Roses, one album legends of modern UK rock, are reuniting for two shows at Manchester’s Heaton Park, on June 29 and 30. A 2012 world tour will be announced soon. More details can be found over at their website.
Well this year, Brits are trying to make magic happen again and get Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” to the top spot on the 20th anniversary of Nevermind.
I guess that video he posted a couple months back about a private listening party weren’t kidding.
Here’s something I didn’t expect to see today (or ever). The new video for the Steve Malkmus and The Jicks song “Senator” features Jack Black as the Senator, snorting coke and kissing babies. Also, Gary Cole pops up doing his Gary Cole thing.
Anthony Fantano over at The Needle Drop weighs in with a band that has become inseparable from October and Halloween: The Misfits. With their catchy punk hooks and absurdist, sci-fi/horror themes, The Misfits have definitely left their unique mark on punk rock.
In this clip from a Primus live-show, lead singer and bass-player extraordinaire, Les Claypool, takes this Metallica classic and adds his own brand of Slap-Bass to it in that very special way that only a band like Primus can.
Montage of every song first anything anything from 11/9/08 Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen Paper Lace Sweet Little Sixteen Bruce Springsteen Sixteen Candles The Stray cats Changing Of The Guard Bob Dylan Soul Bossa Nova Quincy Jones You don't Own Me Lesley...