Trailer for the upcoming Big Star Documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me: The Big Star Story.

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 214: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Bleached – Dazed ++ The Damned – New Rose ++ The Starlets – You Don’t Love Me ++ Dum Dum Girls [...]

Dion DiMucci may not be a name often associated with underground rock and roll. As the New York teen behind such inner city oldies as “The Wanderer” and “Runaround Sue,” Dion is usually branded as representative of the slick, early-1960s pop sound that came to replace teenagers’ grittier rock and roll heroes like Elvis Presley [...]

“…That night I met someone who would be very important in my musical education. He was engineering in the studio and cooking burgers in the Dairy Queen. He had a Robert Mitchum hair cut and a slow humorous style…He was one of the coolest people I ever met. He was Packy Axton.” – Jim Dickinson [...]

Saturday night Aquarium Drunkard welcomes Megafaun back to Los Angeles at the Satellite. In support is Doug Paisley, whose record Constant Companion was one of the finest singer-songwriter driven LPs of 2010. Megafaun are presently touring in support of their most ambitious album to date, the self-titled Megafaun, out last month via Home Tapes. We’re [...]

Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973-1980: Not unlike Studio One Soul, the (excellent) compilation released by Soul Jazz Records, this 2001 Blood & Fire collection focuses on the American soul and R&B impact/influence on Jamaican music. While perhaps a bit uneven on the whole, this dubbed out version of Curtis Mayfield’s “We The People [...]

Thanks to an off the cuff mention by our amigo Jeff Weiss last night, I ended up spinning an old favorite, Brother Jack McDuff’s 1969 Blue Note album, Moon Rappin’. A nocturnal soul jazz groover, I was hipped to the LP by a DJ about a decade ago while in the midst of a heavy [...]

Wanted to share this video, but embedding has been disabled (visit YouTube to view). A favorite — Bardot and Gainsbourg at their most whimsical. MP3: Serge Gainsbourg :: Comic Strip _____________________________________________________________________________________

In terms of girl-group uber-camp, Lori Burton’s “Nightmare,” off the 1966 LP Breakout, should top most any list. As noted in the 2005 reissue, Burton and company (recording as the Brill building constructed group, The Whyte Boots) take the “Leader of The Pack” thing to a whole new level. Think: ‘bad girls’ in bible black [...]

As you may have noticed, there is a massive Pink Floyd campaign underway — deluxe reissues, box sets, etc. As such, appreciations, re-appreciations and other ancillary pieces are popping up on various publications both online and off. Rolling Stone has dedicated its most recent cover to taking a look back at the creation of the [...]