Scott Bernstein

AfterNews: Rush/The Spectrum/Feist

Prog-rock innovators Rush, who haven’t performed on US Television since 1975, will appear on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report tomorrow night at 11:30 PM [EDT]. Here’s a shocker: according to

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Briefly: Farm Aid 2008 @ Great Woods

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Neil Young will once again bring Farm Aid to the Northeast this September. Farm Aid’s 2008 concert will take place at the Comcast

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AfterNews: SubPop/UnLed-ed/Guns N’ Roses

Grunge pioneers Green River gave the adoring crowd exactly what they were looking for last night at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Party at Seattle’s Marymoor Park. The reunited sextet

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Monday’s Hors d’Oeuvres: The Dead in Egypt

After an extremely slow start, Rhino Records has finally started unveiling new Grateful Dead archival releases at a decent pace. Rhino’s next release–Rocking The Cradle – Egypt 1978–contains 2 CDs

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

In 2006 Sigur Rós played a series of unannounced concerts around their homeland during the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer. The film Heima captures the majestic musical moments

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AfterNews: TenaciousDB, RANA, UM/STS9

One of the weirder collaborations at last weekend’s Rothbury Festival was between Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass and General Motors. GM sent Gass to promote their brand new GMnext initiative and

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Friday’s Leftovers: All Good Webcast

It’s time to break out the “it’s ALL good, brah” jokes because the original hippie jam fest, Walther Productions’ All Good Festival, kicks off this afternoon at Marvin’s Mountaintop in

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Friday Mix Tape: What’s My Name?

Naming a song after somebody has been a tradition carried on from the early days of rock when Little Richard recorded Long Tall Sally and Chuck Berry immortalized Johnny B.

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MP3 Boot Camp: The Feelies In The Park

NYCTaper continues to amaze by getting high quality recordings out to the masses shortly after the band leaves the stage. Last week, one of NYCTaper’s new correspondents shared a killer

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