Iggy Pop, Julian Casablancas, Alison Mosshart & The Arcs perform covers on...
Episode 5 of the show features Iggy Pop covering Nervous Breakdowns, Julian Casablancas covering another VU song, plus tracks from Alison Mosshart covering The Punks, and The Arcs covering Bobby Parks....
View Articlethat time Sharon Jones sang ‘Sweet Jane’ with Lou Reed… (listen)
Hopefully now Sharon and Lou are singing this together in heaven. Continue reading…
View ArticleJim James played Terminal 5 (pics & setlist), livestreaming Atlanta show
With backing by Twin Limb (who also played an opening set on their own), Jim played all of 'Eternally Even' at T5, as well as a few cuts from 2013's Regions of Light and Sound of God, covered The...
View ArticleSteve Gunn tells us his Top 10 of 2016, expands tour with dates in January
Plus: Steve's NYC holiday show is this Friday at The Bell House. Continue reading…
View ArticleFlo Morrissey & Matthew E. White releasing collaborative covers LP (listen),...
Their album includes their takes on songs by Roy Ayers, Frank Ocean, Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground, James Blake and more. Continue reading…
View ArticleLuna releasing covers LP & instrumental EP, share cover of Fleetwood Mac’s...
Both records are out in September. Continue reading…
View Article1967’s best rock bands still touring (The Who, Dead, Beatles, Clapton, Floyd,...
A companion guide to our list of the 50 Best Psychedelic Rock Albums of the Summer of Love. Catch one of the many great artists still playing clubs and stadiums in 2017.... Continue reading…
View ArticleMonterey Pop screenings, photo exhibit & more Summer of Love stuff
Catch the restored documentary in a theater near you, head to Morrison Hotel Gallery to check out a photo exhibit, and read a recap of a recent Q&A with D.A. Pennebaker. Also: watch Michelle...
View ArticleNico biopic hitting theaters; Marissa Nadler, U.S. Girls & more playing...
Plus: Julie Byrne, Lizzi Bougatsos (Gang Gang Dance), and more are playing the tribute show in celebration of new Nico biopic's August release. Continue reading…
View ArticleAlice Cooper covers Velvet Underground’s ‘Rock & Roll’ on new LP ‘Detroit...
‘Detroit Stories‘ is Cooper‘s ode to the ”Golden Era” of Detroit rock and features MC5's Wayne Kramer and more. Continue reading…
View Articlethat time Sharon Jones sang ‘Sweet Jane’ with Lou Reed… (listen)
Lou, with a little help from Sharon Jones, delivers a great “Sweet Jane”. Steve Hunter on lead guitar. Rob Wasserman on electric double bass. It happened in Sydney. RIP Sharon. RIP Lou. also: Watch...
View ArticleJim James played Terminal 5 (pics & setlist), livestreaming Atlanta show
A photo posted by Sarah (@sarahnade_me) on Nov 20, 2016 at 9:52pm PST My Morning Jacket’s Jim James is currently on tour supporting his terrific, of-the-moment protest album Eternally Even, and the...
View ArticleSteve Gunn tells us his Top 10 of 2016, expands tour with dates in January
Steve Gunn has had a great year, releasing his excellent Matador debut, Eyes on the Lines, back in June, a Record Store Day 12″ on Black Friday and has been on the road more than not. He’ll wrap up...
View ArticleFlo Morrissey & Matthew E. White releasing collaborative covers LP (listen),...
Matthew E. White met Flo Morrissey at a Lee Hazlewood tribute in London where they performed “Some Velvet Morning.” The two hit it off and from there it spun off into an album of duet covers,...
View ArticleLuna releasing covers LP & instrumental EP, share cover of Fleetwood Mac’s...
Luna have been back in action for a couple years now and have finally decided to get back into the studio, with two new records on the way, though neither might not be exactly what fans might want....
View Article1967’s best rock bands still touring (The Who, Dead, Beatles, Clapton, Floyd,...
photo by Dana Distortion It’s officially the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and last week we published a list of the 50 Best Psychedelic Rock Albums of the Summer of Love (aka 1967). Check out...
View ArticleMonterey Pop screenings, photo exhibit & more Summer of Love stuff
As you may have heard, Monterey Pop Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary last weekend. In honor of that, original Monterey co-producer Lou Adler (with help from Coachella organizers Goldenvoice...
View ArticleNico biopic hitting theaters; Marissa Nadler, U.S. Girls & more playing...
Nico, 1988 the biopic about the last years of singer and Velvet Underground collaborator Nico, is being released on August 1 in NYC and August 3 in L.A., with more cities to come. The film stars Trine...
View ArticleAlice Cooper covers Velvet Underground’s ‘Rock & Roll’ on new LP ‘Detroit...
Alice Cooper will release a new album, Detroit Stories, on February 26 via earMUSIC. The first single off the album is a cover of The Velvet Underground’s Loaded classic “Rock & Roll” which...
View ArticleWatch Beach House’s Victoria Legrand join Yo La Tengo for Velvet...
One day after playing a very intimate Philadelphia show in stripped-down duo form, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally headed to NYC and Beach House opened Night 6 of Yo La Tengo‘s Hanukkah 2023 run at...
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