Frank Zappa’s legendary albums Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe, staples of my days as a Skidmore freshman, have finally received the Classic Albums treatment. For now the whole documentary is available on YouTube, but quick, watch it now before Gail Zappa catches wind of this. Meanwhile, Dweezil and his Zappa Plays Zappa outfit are firing up an extensive summer tour.
- The White Stripes are going on tour
- Snoop Dogg may embrace the prison culture, but he’s been banned from Oz — say goodbye to Australia, Snoop
- Virgin Fest announces a pretty strong lineup for Pimlico
- More news on the upcoming Beastie Boys album
- Licorice Pizza offers up Pearl Jam unplugged mp3s
- Andy Tennille interviews Robbie Robertson about life in The Band
- Jambands.com’s David Schultz interviews Larry Campbell
- The tale of the Beatles musical Across The Universe
- Stylus interviews members of The Sea and Cake
- Willie Nelson blows off jail
- Jethro Tull plans an unplugged tour
- Remember Night Flight?
- Screw Love, download The Beatles: Hate
- Jefitoblog makes some good points about the DRM debate
- Pete Townshend unveils his new vision for creating music
- Mike Greenhaus tackles one of the few traditions left in our scene: The Allman Brothers’ Beacon run
Next week Conan O’Brien heads to San Francisco for a weeks worth of shows. Tom Waits, Ratdog, and the Artic Monkeys top the list of bands appearing on Late Night. And speaking of California, be sure to check out the Coachella webcast today through Sunday. Have a good weekend, kiddies.
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Is it me or has Willie Nelson turned himself into an actual folk hero? This guy is invincible.
Oh God, have you guys heard the new White Stripes single yet? It rocks extremely hard and sports a really cool prog organ.
This one?
http://jasper.webvomit.com/music/Thump.mp3
It is pretty sweet, plus it has “webvomit” in the url.
Downloading Beatles – Hate right now. Nice pick up.
The Good Dr. Chlorophyll lives down the street from me. Needless to say, he is a very nice man.
Totally, Ace.
Here’s another bulletpoint…Tea Leaf Green will play an acoustic set to close the Sonic Stage @ 7 p.m. on the 15th. Should be the largest acoustic set the band has played to date. For more detes, here’s the thread on the TLG forum:
http://www.tealeafgreen.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12532