Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Spinner Interview Shirlaine Forrest, Getty Images When he appeared on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' with the Beatles in 1964, Davy Jones had no idea he was staring at his future. On the show, he performed a song from 'Oliver!' the Broadway show he was acting in at the time. But two years later, he'd be cast in ' [...]

I can't thank my good pal Tash enough for introducing me to this amazing set of comps, LA Burnout and LA Burnout 2 . I've become completely addicted to these catchy, somewhat forgotten odes to the city of angels. These jams are teaching me that I might have gotten it wrong. When I first got here, I was convinced that LA had no soul. Now I think that LA does in fact have a soul. It's may be a sleazy, washed-out, drug-addled, sun-baked soul, but it's a [...]
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A third season of Gone Country —the CMT show in which artists attempt to make over their careers so they can enter the hotly contended "country crossover" market—has been announced by the network, and among the stars hoping to follow in the footsteps of season-two victor Sebastian Bach are a lot of actual famous musicians, like George Clinton and Micky Dolenz and, uh, Justin Guarini. (OK, so maybe a couple of people this time out just like being on TV.) After the jump, we handicap the contestants. Richard Grieco [...]

For Part One, Visit: L.A. Burnout :: Part One of Three ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------ Running the Drunkard has put me in touch, both through email and in person, with some great folks, many of whom have been eager to share their musical best-kept-secrets, and in the case of this post, their excellent themed compilations. The L.A. Burnout comp was mailed to me in November from a longtime reader based in NYC, which coincidental arrived at the same time I was reading two books ( Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood [...]