I just read this story on NME.com about Public Enemy trying to raise money from fans for the recording of their new album through SellABand and I think it’s quite an interesting concept. Basically they’re trying to raise $250,000 (in increments of $25) for the recording of the album from fans who become sort of [...]

I’m a bit late to this, but I just came across a Zogby poll of Americans released on September 15th which asked over 4000 Americans (ages 18 and above) who their favorite Beatle is. I was surprised to see these results: Paul McCartney 27% John Lennon 16% George Harrison 10% Ringo Starr 9% Don’t Like [...]

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” [...]

1966 – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde At 71 minutes, Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde fits on one CD. Of course with CD’s becoming increasingly irrelevant, what does that really matter? Which leads me to a bit of a meditation on what constitutes a double album in the digital era? How long does an album [...]

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 [...]