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Fifteen years ago, Brian Connolly , original lead singer of famed UK glam band The Sweet , was found dead of kidney and liver failure at the age of 47. Between 1971 and 1978, The Sweet sold in excess of 50 million records. That's a lot of vinyl, my friends. To most US fans, ' Desolation Boulevard ' remains the most glorious collection of tunes ranging from hard rock (Sweet FA) to glam rock (Fox on the Run). Wikipedia notes: "In 1974 Connolly was badly beaten up [...]

Veteran Omaha, NE crunch noisers Cursive have a new LP coming out, called " I Am Gemini ". You can buy it now online. Physical version comes out end February. Cursive's tour dates start this weekend, and the band comes to Phoenix later in the month. You can download two MP3s from the LP which the band call 'probably the most poppy/catchiest on the record' at Saddle Creek Store . Tour dates below. The blurbists write: "I Am Gemini is the surreal and powerful musical tale of Cassius and Pollock, [...]

There is a place in your life for rock 'n roll. Where you choose to put it and how much time you devote to it is entirely up to you. That being said, here are a few stories from around the Internet-O-Meter of Goodness. - Creative recording magazine site TapeOp has a great interview in this month's mag with Steve Albini , the '80s punk rocker w/Big Black and Naked Raygun and current well-known record producer at his own Chicago-based recording studio Electrical Audio . In it, Steve shares his knowledge of recording bands, [...]

Author turned punker Bob Mould has pulled in an awesome rhythm section to play his band SUGAR's classic 1992 release "Copper Blue". In honor of the 20-year anniversary of Sugar's COPPER BLUE, Bob along with his band, Jon Wurster (Superchunk, The Mountain Goats), and Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard, Verbow) will be performing the album in its entirety for the first time ever at San Francisco's beloved small rock club, Bottom of the Hill, on Friday, February 24th as part of the 20th [...]

From a fan-driven art contest, the vet alt-folk-rock band The Counting Crows got their next LP cover. The LP is full of covers of favorite songs by the bandmembers. See full list below. Counting Crwos will play covers of songs by Teenage Fanclub (yay! Great choice!), Big Star, Pure Prairie League (Amy? oh no)and others. CC singer Adam Duritz wrote to fans in an email: "The album art contest was a huge success for Creative Allies with more than a thousand entries, the most they've ever received. It's an even bigger success [...]

'80s music nostalgia is in the air! Never Gonna Give You Up! Red Red Wine! Back to Life, Back to Reality, and I'm Too Sexy! It's a Glastonbury for the middle-classed, 2 kids-and-a-flat set that bit their lips quaveringly in the 1980s while dancing at the local discotheque. The Rewind Festival m, now in its fourth year, will be held in two locations this coming summer - in Perthshire, Scotland on July 21-22 and in Thames on Henley, England on August 18-19. And the NEW news is that the Rewind [...]

I'm digging this revved-up Stooges-like-intensity rock 'n roll song called "Hit 'n Miss" from the band Capsula , a trio of long hairs from south of the border, like South America south! From the blurbsters: "Capsula's Martin Guevara (vocals/guitar) and Coni Duchess (vocals/bass), along with Capsula drummer, Nacho, collectively create the musical storm, a whirlwind of psychedelic wonder and punk rock fury. Their music roars with a combination of garage rock toughness and modern style that have earned them a wide range of comparisons from The Stooges and The Pixies to Sonic Youth and David [...]

Nashville smokin' classic rock revivalists band Natural Child is heading out with Oakland's Hunx and His Punx for an April tour, with a stop at Tempe's Yucca Tap room on (yep, you guessed it) 4/20. Weed, dude. Natural Child's bio is a pot-brownie-filled hoot...To wit: summer 2009 wez ate brownies had a vision. He told big black zack and called seth 3 times. They started the nashville-based three piece rock band called Natural Child. Maybe known as much for their incessant rambling on-stage banter as their unprecedented pure rock [...]

1970s British popster Gary Glitter 's glam rock anthem 'Rock n Roll Pt. 2' which in the past years was heard at certain sporting events, has been banned by the NFL. Spinner writes : "NFL bosses have banned Gary Glitter songs from being playing at this Sunday's Super Bowl. The pedophile pop star created a stir when fans believed he stood to rake in thousands of dollars if his 1972 anthem 'Rock and Roll Part 2' was blasted at Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium. "No version of that song ['Rock and Roll [...]

Indie soul-ska-punkers Fishbone have their own documentary! It's called ' Everyday Sunshine 'and it's playing at a bunch of independent showings. Check the documentary screening dates page for info and dates. "Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980's, the band rose to prominence, only to fall apart when on the verge of "making it." [...]

The Grammys are coming to your screen of choice on February 12th. The latest Grammy news is that Bruce Springsteen is going to playing ( his new single , perhaps?). From the blurb: "Twenty-time GRAMMY winner Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have been added to the stellar lineup for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Actor/recording artist Jack Black, six-time GRAMMY winner and current three-time nominee Fergie, three-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson of the Roots, and nine-time GRAMMY winner Ringo Starr will appear as presenters. Additional [...]

Do you wanna see The Hives ? I said DO YOU WANNA SEE THE HIVES? You know you do! If so, you gotta be on the West Coast in April - Coachella on successive weekends, and California club and theater dates in between. APRIL 2012 15 April 2012 - Indio, CA COACHELLA 17 April 2012 - Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern (click here for presale link ) 18 April 2012 - San Francisco, CA The Warfield 22 [...]

The Rock 'n Roll Guru reminded us today.... "January 31, 1956: John Lydon , better known as Johnny Rotten, was born. He is 56. Johnny Rotten was a member of the much-loved yet short-lived (save for a few reunion tours) Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols were the definitive punk band and left a legacy well beyond their brief existence." Forget the Pistols! It's 2012 and John at 56 is all about Public Image Ltd. , Lydon's post Pistols band. The PiL musical entity (ie. band) is planning for the [...]

Spinner.com has a new video from Urge Overkill for their song 'Quiet Person'. It's a track from the reunited band's 'Rock and Roll Submarine' LP from last year. But in its version below, it's stripped down, bare and raw, and ultimately affecting. "'Quiet Person' came from a project given to me during rehab in Malibu because I had talked a lot about depression and how it led to feeling like I had a bad case of writer's block," vocalist and guitarist Eddie "King" Roeser tells Spinner . "My counselor finally said if you [...]

Code Orange Kids are a bunch of young punk kids from Pennsylvania who make a slamnoisyfastracket (check out some tracks at their Bandcamp site ). It's intense, in your face, and it may piss you off just listening to it. Their pals at Topshelf Records will release a split EP featuring Code Orange Kids and Full of Hell in April. Here's what they say about Code Orange Kids: "They do things their way, creatively cutting their own path through it all. Unconcerned with the direction of other artists, their brand of [...]

It's summertime now in the southern hemisphere, and that means Australia is in the middle of its Big Day Out festivals all across the country . One of the perennial favorites for Big Day Out is the rockin' punk trio The Living End , who played Sydney's Big Day Out fest on Thursday, and will again perform at the Melbourne Big Day Out date on Sunday. The Living End joins Kanye West, My Chemical Romance, Noel Gallagher and his birds, and others on the stages. The Big [...]

Set your roadtrip (and headtrip) plans now. The initial lineup for the Austin Psych Fest 2012 on April 27-29, 2012 features Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels and The Black Lips lead the lineup. The all-ages festival will be held at Emo's East & Beauty Ballroom in Austin. Tickets are available now. Here's the full list of bands: Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, The Black Lips, Olivia Tremor Control, Dead Meadow, Wooden Shjips, Bombino, Woods, The Telescopes, Pink Mountaintops, Disappears, Sun Araw, Peaking Lights, Prince Rama, Psychic Ills, Pure X, [...]

Pro golf, beautiful weather, live music and beer? That's what the Waste Management Phoenix Open offers year after year. And sure, there are no real surprises, but hanging out at the golf outing's live venue " The Bird's Nest " is usually a good time, if you can deal with occasional douchebaggery and drunken shenanigans. The music and the women make it worth a trip. Here's the music lineup for this year's fun : ( thanks to Scoop Factory for the content below ) Wednesday, February 1: Slightly Stoopid will kick off [...]

Great to read that Portland garage-punk glam rockers The Ex-Girlfriends Club have a new release coming out next week. The LP is called ' Boo Hoo Hoo ' and it's available from 1/31 at all the digital outlets. Guitarist Orion of the Apocalypse wrote recently to say: "'Boo Hoo Hoo' is for fans of Pissed Jeans, The Murder City Devils, Queens of the Stone Age and older bands like The Dead Boys or The Stooges. We worked with Timothy Stollenwerk (Thee Oh Sees, Wooden Shjips) from Stereophonic on this record and we're really excited about [...]

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If you've never seen Nada Surf play live, then you're missing gorgeous vocals, cracklin' guitars, and a pop-tight rhythm section. Here is the next best thing. Nada Surf played NYC's Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday night, and turned in a great performance, with a bunch of new songs from their new LP . Added guitarist Doug Gillard plays wonderfully off singer-guitarist Matthew Caws. Online music channel Rdio & BandPage sponsored the video and Nada Surf is sharing at YouTube. It's embedded below.