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Late last week, we read with interest in the NME that Nick Cave the musician was exhibiting at Grand Central. How was it, we wondered, that it had escaped our notice that Cave was working on an immersive site-specific sculpture featuring dancing horses? Happily, over the weekend we did some research and brushed up on our Cave biography, along with that of some of our other favorite musicians. Read on, and learn some things that you'll never have imagined could possibly be true! [...]

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 [...]

Today we begin our 2012 Annual Report by recapping the year in news. Since January 1st, the staff of Consequence of Sound has posted over 4,500 news stories, ranging from album and tour announcements to the death of M.C.A. and the trials and tribulations of Pussy Riot. Below, we've put together a timeline highlighting the 100 stories which we felt best defined the year. Each notation includes a brief recap of the story along with a link to the original article and even audio. And since the year isn't quite over yet, we'll continue [...]

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 [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Robo Records Micky Dolenz , singer and drummer of the Monkees , is celebrating the release his new album, Remember , which features many songs that mark great milestones in his life, as well as a few new cuts. Spinner spoke with Dolenz while he took a break from rehearsals for the upcoming Monkees tour to [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Robo Records Micky Dolenz , singer and drummer of the Monkees , is celebrating the release his new album, Remember , which features many songs that mark great milestones in his life, as well as a few new cuts. Spinner spoke with Dolenz while he took a break from rehearsals for the upcoming Monkees tour to [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List Michael Ochs Archives (2) We've written about the musicians who are super smart or spent time as teachers, but this year for back-to-school season, we decided to look at the famous artists who made it big without graduating high school. There are dozens of big names who never earned a diploma, so we decided to narrow it down to the ones who have interesting stories: The Beatle who [...]

Roughly six months after the passing of Davy Jones, the surviving members of The Monkees - Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork - have announced that they will head out for 12-date cross-country tour this fall. Last year the iconic '60s pop act reunited to celebrate their 45th anniversary with a world tour, sans Nesmith, who last performed with his former band mates in 1997 for a handful of European shows, and has traditionally sat out on any reformation of the group since they dissolved in 1971 . According to Rolling Stone [...]

There isn’t much information online about Bluebell, except that it appears to be a collaboration between a young lady named Annabel Jones and a young man known as Charlie. The said Annabel Jones happens to be the daughter of the late Davy Jones of The Monkees, and she is certainly talented. Normal Heights seems to [...]

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Filed under: News , R.I.P. Dave J Hogan, Getty Images WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An autopsy report confirms Monkees star Davy Jones died of a heart attack . The report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press shows the 66-year-old Jones had severe build-up in his arteries . Toxicology reports came back negative for any sign of drugs in his system other than [...]

The best way to get appreciation for your work in the music business is to die.  After all, nothing but death could have forced the public at large to stop laughing at Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson and start listening to them again. What has transpired in the wake of Davy Jones’s death, however, is another matter entirely.  Jones left behind no internal struggles for us to lament.  But he did leave behind an emptiness in his professional life:  The Monkees were never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his [...]

Ms. Cris For SPKSMEN. Photography by Bryan Sona Monkees' Albums Sales Gain 1,265% After Davy Jones' Death [Billboard] Kerry Washington Gets Kinky [The Urban Daily] Louis C.K’s New, New Testament: [...]

Filed under: News Dave J Hogan, Getty Images WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Monkees singer Davy Jones was remembered in a small private Florida funeral as a laid-back daydreamer who brought fans into a world blissfully free of worries. The service was held behind locked doors Wednesday at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, close to Jones' home. The Rev. Frank O'Loughlin, who presided over the service, said [...]

It's been seven days since the death of Monkees singer Davy Jones, and it's reported that the singer's funeral is to take place today. An autopsy conducted last week showed that Jones, who was 66 when he died, suffered a severe heart attack at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 29. The singer was found while tending to his horses near his home in Indiantown, Florida and rushed to the Martin Memorial South Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Last night the Hollywood Reporter [...]

Filed under: News , R.I.P. Larry Marano, Getty Images Davy Jones ' former Monkees bandmates have decided to forgo the late singer 's memorial service in Florida to avoid a media circus. Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz told Billboard.com , "My understanding is they want to avoid a media circus and... the family wants to keep it very, very low-key and very, very private. "You can imagine as [...]

I suppose that for someone as fascinated by primates, both of the skyscraper-climbing and planet-ruling sort , as I apparently am, The Monkees should be a favorite band for, if nothing else, their name. In what passes for my reality, The Monkees have been an act that has mostly been a part of the pop culture landscape with the foursome periodically popping up on my radar such as this week with the news of Davy Jones' death. I might have caught The Monkees via their television show during the late '60s, but as [...]

As was widely speculated, Davy Jones' death was caused by a severe heart attack, according to an autopsy performed on the singer. Jones, a member of The Monkees , was pronounced dead at Martin Memorial South Hospital in Stuart, Florida on Wednesday morning. He was 66. An autopsy on the "Daydream Believer" crooner was conducted at 10:30 a.m. yesterday by Martin County's Chief Medical Examiner Roger E. Mittleman, reports E! Online . The cause of death was revealed to be ventricular fibrillation due to severe coronary atherosclerosis. [...]

Davy Jones died Wednesday, leaving behind performances on some of the most memorable pop songs of the 1960s, a surprisingly excellent sitcom, and, for movie-goers and music fans of a certain age,... Continue reading "Davy Jones's Death and the Right Side of Music History" >

Los Angeles Times (MCT) -- LOS ANGELES - In the hours after the death on Wednesday of singer Davy Jones, Bob Rafelson spoke glowingly on Wednesday about the legacy of the Monkees, both the TV show he and partner Bert Schneider created in 1966, and the real-life group that emerged from the Hollywood sound stages for which it was assembled. "Davy Jones deserves a lot of credit, let me tell you," Rafelson, 79, said from his home outside Aspen, Colo....