Almost everyone knows that The Beatles came to the United States in 1964 and became the most popular band of all time. They had 6 #1 singles that year (”I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Love Me Do,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” & “I Feel Fine.”)

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“Toe Jam” By The BPA (featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal)

Prince was born 50 years ago today on June 7th of 1958.
Prince has released many albums, beginning with his 1978 debut For You. Among his most critically acclaimed albums have been 1982’s 1999, 1984’s Purple Rain, and 1987’s Sign o’ the Times.
His most recent studio album was 2007’s Planet Earth.
“Purple Rain” from […]

This may be the most unusual Radiohead cover I have heard yet. The song is “Nude” from their 2007 album In Rainbows and it is “performed” by old obsolete equipment such as an old dot matrix printer on drums and a hard drive array on vocals.

Weezer’s video for their new single “Pork & Beans” features many references to a lot of the biggest memes in YouTube history. Watching it is sort of like a game of “spot that meme.”
Chris Crocker & Tay Zonday are among the “YouTube stars” that appear in the video.
Check it out:

On May 17, 1983 “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie hit #1 on the US singles chart. It also hit #1 in the UK, Sweden, and The Netherlands.
The song features legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar although he is not featured in the video for the song and declined to tour with Bowie […]

“Dollars and Cents” is the 8th track from Radiohead’s 2001 album Amnesiac, which is often unfairly looked at as a “collection of Kid A b-sides.” While I do not believe it’s as good as Kid A (not many albums are), it does stand up on it’s own as an excellent album.
It’s always been one […]

Some demos of new Oasis songs have been leaked. These songs may be included on their 2008 album which has not been titled (at least not official) and is due for rlease in September.
Hear the demos below:
“Stop The Clocks”
This sounds like a pretty simple demo, the final version will likely be much different. “Stop […]

This Tom Waits press conference is unlike any I have seen before:

TOM WAITS Jersey Girl 45 with juke box tab
US $38.80 (4 Bids)

End Date: […]

Trent Reznor released the new NIN album The Slip on Monday. I’ve only listened through it a couple of times so far but my favorite track at this point is “Lights In The Sky.”
It sounds a bit like “1 Ghosts” as far as mood goes. Without the heavy distortion that’s on the piano in […]