43 years ago today, August 14th of 1965, The Beatles 5th album Help! hit #1 on the UK album charts. The album stayed at #1 for 9 weeks. It hit #1 on the US album charts on September 11, 1965 knocking Out of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones off the top spot. The album [...]

Check out this groovy video of Wilco playing “Impossible Germany” in the studio. It’s one of my favorite cuts from their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky. It includes some interviews with the band on the recording of the album.

I just came across this on YouTube: “I Met The Walrus.” It’s an interview of John Lennon in 1969 in Toronto by a 14 year old. Full YouTube description of the video: In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto [...]

Ben Gibbard was born on August 11, 1976 in Washington State. Gibbard is most well known as the lead singer for the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie. I prefer his work as lead singer of The Postal Service who’ve only released one album to date: 2003′s Give Up. “Such Great Heights” by The [...]

Somehow I missed this (it was added June 2nd) but being a huge Tay Zonday fan (and I guess Weezer is OK too) this is definitely a must feature video even if it’s a bit late. Tay Zonday + Brian Bell (of Weezer) performing the Weezer single “Pork & Beans” acoustic style: Weezer LPs on [...]

45 years ago today on August 10th of 1963, Stevie Wonder became the youngest artist to ever hit #1 on the US singles charts with “Fingertips (Part 2)” The song stayed at #1 for three weeks before being knocked off the top spot by “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels on August 31st. Stevie Wonder [...]

Oasis’ 7th studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, is to be released on October 6th in the UK (and October 7th in the US.) Check out this “trailer” for the album which includes (at the end) a clip from “Shock Of The Lightning” which will be the first single on the album. To just hear [...]

Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions! Comedy should always leave you different than when it found you. Sure, humor can hurt, even alienate, but the risk is better than the alternative: a steady diet of innocuous, child-proof, flavorless mush! Demand to be challenged, to be offended, to be treated like thinking, [...]

The “top track” (played by the most people) at Last.FM for each of The Beatles albums along with some commentary on the song and in some cases a lovely YouTube video for you to peruse. Please Please Me (1963) – “Love Me Do” – #19 I think the only logical explanation is that “Love Me [...]

Laced with dark humor and melancholy and comedy, which is basically dark humor; The Cars create an impressive Pop jingle to be out and out reckoned with. This tune opens up their fourth record “Shake It Up” from 1981, an album laced with more than a handful of gems. The lyrical content is a series [...]