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When the Beatles put their first road crew together, they enlisted childhood friend Neil Aspinall for the role of Road Manager. Aspinall stayed with the band through thick and thin, even after the Beatles broke up in 1970. Neil quickly rose through the ranks, and managed Apple Corps’ for over 40 years. If there ever […]

Last week Philly-centric blog Philebrity took a backhanded slap at the Disco Biscuits in a post about this year’s Jam On The River line up. This didn’t sit too well with fans of the jamtronica act, who took to the messages boards to rip into the site. Ever the gracious hosts the blog allowed some […]

After a long winter of waiting, the baseball season officially gets underway sometime around 6 AM tomorrow morning with the Boston Red Sox taking on the Oakland Athletics in Tokyo, Japan. Opening day stateside is still a week away, but what better way to celebrate the return of America’s Pastime then with John Fogerty’s ubiquitous […]

We envy Taylor Hawkins. Not only does the guy have a cushy job as the Foo Fighters’ drummer, but he’s gotten to live out his childhood dreams. Hawkins spent the majority of his time growing up in Fort Worth, Texas listening to Queen and Rush records. A few years back Taylor got to play with Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May, and Saturday night he jammed with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at a Foo Fighters gig in Toronto. That’s one lucky dude.

Geddy and Alex joined the Foo Fighters an hour into their set just as Taylor Hawkins started his drum solo. The trio improv’d for a bit before busting out a killer YYZ that showed off Hawkins’ prowess on the kit. Check out the crowd’s reaction on this decent video of the YYZ.

Here’s a look at what else went down this weekend:

• You can watch the Black Crowes’ recent Unplugged taping on VH1.com
• Ultimate Guitar unveils the first inductees to the Groupie Hall of Fame
• Jimmy DeRo finds out why Ticketmaster isn’t so necessary of an evil
• R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe talks to Billboard about the making of Accelerate
• It’s time for yet another classic rock lyrics quiz [via Here Comes TFlood]
• Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis discusses the “leak” of the Night Ripper follow-up
• Joshua Redman delivers on the promise he showed as a young phenom
• Find out why Bob Marley’s heirs are jamming the Weinstein Brothers
• Miss Cellania finds photos of nearly every Abbey Road parody ever made

We loved the lo-fi feel of the Black Kids demos that made the rounds a few months ago, so we were a little worried that the band would overproduce their Almost Gold debut. Well perhaps we should spend less time worrying and more time writing, because the re-recorded version of I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You sounds pretty fuckin’ good.

Read on after the jump for the deliciously bizarre video for the single…

When James Dolan and his MSG henchmen took over the Beacon Theatre, we thought they would be closing the venue for nearly a year to perform a restoration. Well apparently refurbishing the 79 year-old theatre isn’t such a big priority anymore, as they keep on announcing shows. But we’re not complaining. Just today we we’re […]

Friday [all times Eastern]: Classic Cribs looks at the houses of Gene Simmons, Ted Nugent and a whole slew of hard rockers [VH-1 Classic 8:00 PM] The Black Crowes bring their new lineup to the Tonight Show [NBC 11:35 PM] Shiny Toy Guns are Carson’s musical guest on Later [NBC 1:35 AM] Saturday: Made In […]

“Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, ‘Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit’ [laughs] ‘That ain’t your fuckin’ name.’ Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.” – DMX to […]

There’s nothing we love more than opening our inbox to find an email message announcing a new edition of Live Phish. They don’t call this day Good Friday for nothin’. This time we get the first official release from the Europe ’98 tour, namely the show from July 6, 1998 at the Lucerna Theater in Prague.

And you don’t even have to wait much longer to download the show, as the professionally-mastered MP3s and FLACs will be available at Livephish.com on Tuesday. Those who prefer their music in physical form can order the CD package at Dry Goods. Read on after the jump for the full press release, but first check out the phenomenal Ghost from the new release:

• DOWNLOAD THE GHOST FROM THE LIVE OFFICAL RELEASE OF 7/6/98

I hate the fact that music is divided among race lines. I hate that there is “black” music and “white” music. The musical color line serves only two purposes that I can see: 1) institutional racism within the music industry, and 2) lazy marketing departments within the music industry.

Now, I’m not a religious man, but I like to think that God doesn’t much care about the race of musicians. I like to think He gave Jimi Hendrix mad skills as kind of a joke on white people, and He gave Eminem mad skills as a joke on black people.

But what has the Big Man done to help His children sing? What gifts did He lay upon His African offspring that he denied to their European siblings? And did he bestow a certain musical something-something on his pale children that he didn’t share with their darker brothers and sisters?

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (SFR) has put out a couple of interesting CDs that look at “black” and “white” gospel music. One is called Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways and the other is Classic Southern Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways. Read on for more…

In our relentless pursuit of informing you about every festival that gets announced we let one slip through our fingers last week with announcement of the initial line-up of the Gathering Of The Vibes. The festie returns to Seaside Park in Bridgeport, CT and will once again be headlined by Phil Lesh & Friends, while […]