Artist: the monkees

 [TL; DR: DOWNLOAD HERE ] We suppose to begin at the beginning would be to report that in the summer of 1993 we were driving with the windows down one afternoon in Ardmore, PA, the radio was dialed to Princeton's WPRB, and then we first heard "Claire Hates Me" by Lilys . The tune is a rush of dense guitar and gently modulating melody with an impassioned vocal, so nice it was released twice: first as one side of a split 7" as part of Simple [...]

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. [...]

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• The Monkees - Saturday's Child

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Grandchildren 's  Golden Age  is featured in this week's Unlocked series [ link ] It's been a big week for show announcements, with The Monkees [ link ], Patty Griffin [ link ], Pet Shop Boys [ link ] and The Olms [ link ] unveiling Philly dates Joe Pug played a show at Johnny Brenda's this week - check out a free download of five tracks from the Chicago singer-songwriter [ link ] Khari Mateen will kick-off Brewerytown's summer jazz concert series on May 15th [ link [...]

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Over the last couple of years when we've written about  The Polyphonic Spree it mostly focused around their enthusiasm for holiday music. On August 6, the choral-rock ensemble will release their properly punctuated album - Yes, It's True. - their first set of new material since 20072s The Fragile Army . The Tim DeLaughter fronted act, who harnessed the power of crowd-sourcing to help fund their new record in raising $100,000, will head out for a 12-date summer tour, which includes a high profile appearance at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, as well [...]

by Bill Pearis The Monkees are touring this summer, kicking things off at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on July 15 and will play two other NY-area shows: Red Bank, NJ's Count Basie Theatre on July 17 and Westbury, NY's NYCB Theatre on July 19 . Tickets to the Cap show go on sale Friday (5/3) at noon; tickets to NYCB Theatre go on sale [...]

The Monkees are coming! The Monkees are coming! They are playing The Mann Center on Saturday, July 20th.  By now, the history of The Monkees is the stuff of musical legend.  Beginning as a TV show band in the sixties and recording pop hits like "Daydream Believer," "Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer," the "British" four-piece (Davy Jones was the only actual British band member) experienced the ups and downs of stardom before ultimately folding in 1970.  After a series of partial reunions and side-projects, the band got back together for a 45th anniversary tour [...]

Michael Nesmith’s April 6, 2013 appearance at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago was not just a concert - it was an evening with a raconteur, an artist weaving stories with words and music. For almost two hours, Nesmith led the enthusiastic audience on a tour through his long career, from his Monkees days to his years [...]

Singer/songwriter/film producer Mike Nesmith is back!  Following last summer's highly successful Monkees reunion tour where he rejoined his former bandmates Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork, Nesmith and his band are about to hit the road for a series of live dates (click HERE to see the list) that will focus on his many solo cds.  Rocker’s West Coast Bureau Chief caught up with Mike for this exclusive chat. Rocker: What inspired you to do this solo tour? Mike Nesmith:   I played a short [...]

1. Roy Orbison was blind... Because of Roy Orbison 's huge dark glasses, many people think he was blind. He wasn't. Legend has it that on a plane journey to a concert in Alabama he lost his regular glasses and was left with just his prescription sunglasses. The dark shades remained his only glasses when he embarked on a European tour a few days later. From that point on the shades became his trademark look. 2. Charles [...]

Amor De Dias: House At Sea - Lush, Spanish-styled acoustic guitars swell in my ears and envelope me, taking me to a place that I have never been. I can see myself sitting in a cafe, somewhere warm with a light breeze blowing through. Amor De Dias ’ album House at Sea has a great way of putting the listener in their world. The warm tones of Alasdair Maclean’s and Lupe Nuñez-Fernandez’s voices dig-in like sand between your toes. House at Sea is an eclectic [...]

• Amor De Dias - Jean's Waving

Sure Charles Bradley didn't release his critically acclaimed debut album No Time for Dreaming  until he was 63-years-old, but anyone that has seen the soul singer perform live in the last handful of years can attest that he's got more energy on stage than a man half his age. Bradley, whose remarkable story is the subject of the documentary Soul Of America , will release his sophomore album full-length effort Victim Of Love via Daptone Records, and has lined up a two-month-long North American Tour in support. The 25-date run [...]

Now that I've wasted so much time here establishing a few traditions, I'd be remiss to honor not them... Almost every artist in the history of mankind has at least one title in their catalog that is a compilation, a stopgap collection meant to maintain interest between releases (often to boost holiday sales) or to fulfill a contractual obligation. This is the former, a chance to make use, one more time, of a lot of wasted time over the past twelve months. Four years ago, I reflected on the annual, childhood tradition of [...]

YouTube copy of the "Official" video for the Monkees' "I'm A Believer" In the mid to late 60s, I had a transistor radio (about the size of a fat iPhone) that received short wave frequencies. One of the stations I could pick up (it came and went/faded so that it sounded like a sine wave) was Radio Luxemburg – I was able to hear about ½ of any song. I have since learned that it was a “pirate” station: a [...]

When did the Monkees become the musical equivalent of Shakespeare? Apparently, at some point, when I wasn't looking or listening, an act that was essentially a 1960s boy band, complete with its own television series, became as worthy of reverence as the Beatles. The other day my friend Lori updated her status on Facebook thusly: "Daydream Believer by the Monkees just came on, and I could burst into tears. Poor Davy Jones. What a beautiful song." My comment: "Anne Murray's version of it is BOSS!" Just in case [...]

Photo By Steve CohenThe Monkees State Theatre, Minneapolis November 15, 2012 The Monkees were determined to make their sold-out performance at the State Theatre on Thursday night a sunny, psychedelic

Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES - The Monkees haven't toured together in more than four decades, so it seemed only logical that at a rehearsal last week in North Hollywood, the band's three surviving members might not be in sync. But two days ahead of a short reunion tour that began Thursday in Escondido, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork communicated in a secret language as if it were still 1969. In the middle of a long...

Here is a whole slew of shows... Because there is absolutely nothing else to do. So, please, everybody enjoy some rock in the Bay this week! Thursday, November 8th Tilly & The Wall, Icky Blossoms, Il Gato at Great American Music Hall It's been a really long time since Tilly & The Wall last came [...]