Artist: Chuck Berry

There are always scores of “musical Armageddon preachers;” those who point to a particular facet within the current world of music, and claim that its existence signifies of the end of “music as we know it.” Whether these types are simply trying to make a case that “rock is dead” (it isn’t) or that “there’s no more talent in mainstream music” (there’s plenty), their arguments have been the same for decades, and there is rarely any merit to them. Moreso than with any other artistic form, people love to go on and on about the shifts in musical [...]

Chuck Berry On The Rocks: A choice selection of sixties garage rock. Our long-time-coming collaboration with Gothenburg, Sweden DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Download/tracklisting after the jump... Download: AD Presents :: Chuck Berry On The Rocks - A Mixtape (zipped folder) 1 We All Love Peanut Butter - The One Way Streets 2 Tiki Twist - [...]

In an attempt to save you (not to mention ourselves) from the general Monday-morning awfulness that tends to follow a lovely spring weekend, Flavorwire has compiled a playlist of indie/rock/generally guitar-based songs that are genuinely funny. These are 20 of the flat-out wittiest and most amusing songs we know - and we guarantee that at least one of them will make you chuckle. (Note: we're discounting actual comedy songs here, so no Lonely Island/Flight of the Conchords/etc.) Keep the hilarity going by adding to our list in the comments. [...]

They don't get any more legendary than this. From 1964, The T.A.M.I. Show ! Standing for Teenage Music International, this one-off musical variety show set the bar very high for everything that followed, and has never quite been matched. Get a load of this line up: Jan and Dean (Here They Come) from All Over the World Chuck Berry Johnny B. Goode Maybellene [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , Movies "GOODBYE HORSES" FROM "SILENCE OF THE LAMBS" Okay, forget all that stuff about irony. In a scene featuring a serial killer getting dolled up as a prospective victim stands trapped in his well, this echo-y one-hit wonder by Q Lazzarus just sounds creepy. Lazzarus first met director Jonathan Demme when he entered her cab, which was playing a tape of her music. The 1988 song has something to do with Hindu philosophy, but the thing we all [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , Movies "SHOUT" FROM "ANIMAL HOUSE" If -- to quote a Steely Dan song here -- "the weekends at the college didn't turn out like you planned," then chances are you didn't have a lot of toga parties. But don't feel bad, losers. It's not like everybody went to crazy frat parties featuring Otis Day and the Knights performing their call-and-response favorite to a drunken crowd, except maybe the film's writer, who apparently had more fun in college than we did. [...]

Pretty much I'ma f-ck with something if Planet Asia is on it. This banger is from the forthcoming album, Abrasions dropping February 26th. Pre-Order Gensu Dean & Planet Asia - Abrasions : iTunes | D-Lux Vinyl | CD Chuck Berry (feat. Shawn Pen) by Gensu Dean & Planet Asia

Chuck Berry (feat. Shawn Pen) by Gensu Dean & Planet Asia This morning MTV Hive debuted the new single from Dallas based producer Gensu Dean & Fresno's finest Planet Asia. The track "Chuck Berry" features Shawn Pen and revolves around an agressive rock riff that Dean created on his trusty SP1200. The song appears on the forthcoming album "Abrasions" to be released on Mello Music Group February 26th.

Earlier today the trailer for a new movie called Inside Llewyn Davis came out. This film was created by the Coen Brothers and tells the tale of a fictional folk singer from the Greenwich Village scene which stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman. According to Rolling Stone , the film is loosely based on the life of Dave Van Ronk. No release date has been set yet. Here's the trailer featuring a Bob Dylan soundtrack... In other news, here's a batch of fresh links hot out of [...]

See if you can name all fifty guitarists on this poster

Chuck Berry - From St. Louie to Frisco (Mercury Records, 1968).

The Rolling Stones ' 50 and Counting Tour pulled in to Newark, New Jersey tonight for the first of two shows at the Prudential Center that will bring the run to a close. The band shook up the setlist a bit from the London and Brooklyn shows and gave the fans a handful of surprises. [via @polidorable ] Once again the Stones started off with an old school pairing as they kicked off the set with Get Off of My Cloud and The Last Time. [...]

Rhino Records will celebrate the 35th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac's landmark Rumours album in January with an expanded anniversary reissue that includes assorted outtakes and demos. An expanded edition also features Rumours on 140-gram vinyl, the 1977 documentary The Rosebud Film on DVD and more outtakes. Rumours 35 is slated for a January 29th release. List Time: Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Of All Time Trent Reznor and Dr. Dre are teaming up to launch a new music [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies , I Fought the Law , Music Appreciation Hulton Archive In December 1970 John Lennon released a song called "God" with the closing line "The dream is over." Lennon's song was outwardly about religion, but it could just as well have been applied to the principles of peace and love, which were basically stabbed to death a year earlier at a Rolling [...]

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MUSIC NEWS- As a result of an unamed illness M. Ward has announced he's cancelling his upcoming appearance at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame series, Roll Over Beethoven: The Life and Music of Chuck Berry taking place on...

Chuck Berry : My Ding A Ling [Purchase] Chuck Berry's right. It's a fourth grade song. Dumb and Silly. And yet, "My Ding A Ling" did something "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Maybelline" and "School Day" never did. "My Ding a Ling" is the only Chuck Berry single to hit #1. The song was originally recorded on 1968's From St Louie to Frisco as "My Tambourine\" Two future members of Average White Band play on the single [...]

If he wasn't busy enough with his many gigs, ?uestlove is going to now have to find time to grade papers, as The Roots drummer has revealed that he will be teaming up with Universal Music Enterprises vice president Harry Weinger to teach a course titled Classic Albums, next semester at the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. According to Billboard , the two credit course, "will focus on the concept of what it means for something to be called classic or seminal, as well as take a close look at the [...]