It’s time to take a look at this week’s Billboard charts. Why? Good question. I guess I’m just sort of a sick person, a real sick twisted kind of person who is interested in these kind of things even though I know I should not be. I’m not going to list every single album on [...]

This is the second entry in my new series: “The Beatles Songs That Are Better In Mono” which is highlighting the songs which I believe to be significantly better in mono than than they are in stereo when comparing the versions included in The Beatles in Mono & The Beatles in Stereo box sets. I’m [...]

My final entry in my “Most Valuable Beatle” series (which except for Yellow Submarine could really be called my Lennon vs. McCartney series.) Before I get to the Past Masters 2 disc let me share my previous entries here: Please Please Me (John), With The Beatles (John), A Hard Day’s Night (John), Beatles For Sale [...]

Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien said in a recent interview (with NME) that Radiohead will definitely be releasing a new album in 2010 in CD, vinyl, and (of course) download formats. This contradicts an interview that Thom Yorke gave a couple of months ago where he indicated that Radiohead wasn’t planning on recording another album any [...]

According to this listing on Amazon.com, Animal Collective will be releasing their second album of 2009 on December 8th: Fall Be Kind. There’s no information about this album except that it’s out on December 8th and that it’ll be available in both CD & vinyl (along with download versions I’m sure.) Merriweather Post Pavillion was [...]

I’m finishing up my “Most Valuable Beatle” series with the Past Masters non album tracks compilation which I’m splitting up into disc 1 and disc 2 to make it easier to chew. First a recap: Please Please Me (John), With The Beatles (John), A Hard Day’s Night (John), Beatles For Sale (John), Help! (John), Rubber [...]

Amazon.com has updated it’s pages for The Beatles In Stereo Box Set & The Beatles In Mono Box Set. Both remastered Beatles box sets are going to be back in stock on November 1st. Of course, there’s no way of telling whether they will go out of stock again quickly (although I’m hoping they made [...]

Thom Yorke and his new band made their debut in LA Friday night playing all nine songs from Yorke’s first solo album The Eraser and following that up with an additional seven songs (four performed by Yorke on his own, and three with the band.) Four of those seven songs are previously unreleased. “Paperback Writer” [...]

Hip Hop/R&B stars Lil Wayne & Jermaine Dupri appear on Weezer’s new album Raditude which is due out on November 3. This is what Rivers Cuomo said about the collaborations and the direction Weezer is taking on their new album: Weezer is always trying something new. Last year, we put out The Red Album. We [...]

Alright, I’ve finally made it to the last Beatles album in my “Most Valuable Beatle” series for each album. And as a pre-emptive strike against the comments I’ll get if I don’t mention this; I know that Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be (with the exception of “I Me Mine” and Phil Spector’s [...]