The biggest Woodstock CD Box Set ever is set to be released tomorrow (and can be ordered on Amazon.com right now.) This is a six CD set that includes 77 songs that were performed at the historic rock festival in the summer of 1969. Of most interest is the 38 songs which have never been [...]

I missed posting this bit of music trivia yesterday because I was out of town: It was on August 8, 1969 (40 years ago yesterday) that the famous photo that was used for the cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album was taken. Today there’s a camera which sends a live video feed of the [...]

Graham Coxon was born on March 12th of 1969 in West Germany. He grew up in Derbyshire, England. Coxon is most well known for his work as Blur’s lead guitarist from 1991′s Leisure to 1999′s 13. He left the band in 2002 and only appeared on one track (“Battery in Your Leg”) on the band’s [...]

Jim O’Rourke was born January 18th of 1969. He is known as both a musician and a producer. As a producer he has worked with many bands/artists including Wilco, Stereolab, Joanna Newsom, and Sonic Youth. As a musician he has collaborated with many bands/artists. He was an official member of Sonic Youth (as a guitarist) [...]

Dave Grohl was born January 14th of 1969 in Ohio. He grew up in Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington DC.) He is most well known as the drummer for Nirvana and the singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Foo Fighters. When Kurt Cobain died in 1994 Grohl was unsure what he would do next. Would [...]

The Beatles famous rooftop concert from the top of Abbey Road Studios on January 30, 1969 can be seen (and heard of course) right here. It was the last live performance The Beatles ever gave. (Unfortunately the YouTube videos that were embedded here were deleted…) I have instead included a link to buy the DVD [...]

Jay Kay was born on December 30th of 1969 in England. He is most well known as the principle songwriter, musician, and singer for the band Jamiroquai. Jamiroquai’s most well known song in the US is 1996′s “Virtual Insanity” (from his 1996 album Travelling Without Moving.) In large part this is due to the memorable [...]

Jakob Dylan was born on December 9th of 1969 in New York City. His father is Bob Dylan. Dylan is most well known as the lead singer of The Wallflowers who had significant commercial success in the 1990s, their 1996 album Bringing Down the Horse was particularly successful as it reached #4 on the Billboard [...]

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 [...]

The Beatles worked on two new George Harrison penned songs in Abbey Road studios on June 16th of 1969. Those two songs would end up on the album Abbey Road released later that year. Those two songs? “Something” & “Here Comes The Sun.” “Something” This video features the girlfriends/wives of each of The Beatles at [...]