Video: Stray Cats - Rock This Town (Live from Fridays 1981)

I previously mentioned the big Mandela concert going down at MSG on July 18th. Well, that show was moved to Radio City Music Hall . Tickets are still on sale . The lineup includes Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keys, Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Gaynor, Will.I.Am, Dave Stewart, Angelique Kidjo, Jesse McCartney, Josh Groban, Wyclef Jean, Queen Latifah, and Baaba Maal. Tickets are currently on AmEx presale for the Boredoms show at Terminal 5 . Tickets are currently on [...]

Listening to music while flipping through old family pictures today, I encountered an interesting coincidence. Just as I was enjoying a tune by the rockabilly revival group Stray Cats, I happened to run across a photo that included a kitten. More about the music later, but let's talk about the picture. It's from a color slide that is well over fifty years old, and it shows my sister and I on either side of a friend of mine. The three of us seem to be doing some kind of mysterious hand-thing that might [...]

• Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

This performance is all muscle and grit, tough as gristle. It must have been so out of place in '81. From the TV show Fridays .