I now peek at the commercial takeover of Beck Enterprises Incorporated. It was at this point that Beck really began to pay severe attention to the 1967 musical comedy “How to Succeed in Business without really trying”. Things start to take a turn for the worse, but therein exists some worthwhile songs along the way… [...]

Coinciding with the release of their new album, Embryonic, The Flaming Lips will perform on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Tuesday, October 13th. Embryonic is now available to buy on Amazon.com as either the regular CD version or a double CD plus DVD version. You can check out The Flaming Lips Amazon Store [...]

I go on an album-by-album basis, analyzing individual tracks of note. Some Beck albums will be worth your while. You decide based upon my song selections (just rethink your whole life, that’s all I ask). Beck ~ “Mellow Gold” A record with many highlights! LOSER, PAY NO MIND (SNOOZER), WHISKEY-CLONE: HOTEL CITY 1997 and NITEMARE [...]

Continuing with my series on who is the “MVB” (Most Valuable Beatle) for each their albums, I have arrived at 1969′s Yellow Submarine which is a pretty unusual album in The Beatles career as it contains only four new Beatles songs because two had already been released on previous albums (“Yellow Submarine” on Revolver & [...]

As well as The Beatles did on the UK and US album charts, they did even better on Canada’s. For the week ending September 17th The Beatles had a ridiculous 6 of the top 10 spots and 12 of the top 20 on the Canadian album charts. Possibly most impressive is that The Beatles Stereo [...]

On September 27th at ThisIsIt-Movie.com tickets for Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” movie go on sale. The movie premieres at midnight on Wednesday, October 28th (Tuesday night) and is running for just two weeks. The following is from the movie’s PR: Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT will offer Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a [...]

One of my favorite bands of the past 20 years is The Olivia Tremor Control as they took a lot of elements from my favorite bands of the 1960s (most obviously The Beatles & The Beach Boys) and pushed them over the psychedelic edge with insane song arrangements and production tricks in their lo-fi four [...]

Continuing on with my RateYourMusic.com theme (I do love that website) I’m going to use their rankings as the basis for this ranking of the top 10 albums of ’09 thus far. I am going to add in some filters to get rid of some of the junk that tends gets in the way on [...]

As a follow-up to my post on a comparison of the top 10 albums of all time as rated by people in the US & UK, this is a list of just the top 10 albums released by US artists in the 2000s as ranked by US & UK audiences. As an extra filter I [...]

The new UK album charts are out and Muse’s 5th album The Resistance enters the chart at #1. The album has received pretty mixed reviews from what I’ve read. Pitchfork gave it a 5.9, NME gave it a 6/10, & Rolling Stone gave it 3 stars but on the other hand Drowned in Sound gave [...]