2007

Two of the most iconic musicians of the last 50 years each wrote a song for the same woman, whom they both loved so intently it formed the most bizarre love triangle

…though our route’s clearly not up through the quad to the gymnasium… Just as we all love to raid the fridge at 2 am, we also love to raid the Internet

HT Contributor Eliot Glazer has tremendously terrible taste in music. But he may or may not share with us a love for Growing Pains, which is pretty cool.

Who would have guessed that the guy who penned the theme to Wheel Of Fortune would [literally] produce one of the hottest R&B stars of 2007?

After a long, bumpy road during which his career garnered critical buzz domestically but never truly broke through commercially (although he scored hits abroad), Robin Thicke has become a bona fide R&B star. Having entered into the sparsely-populated club of White American urban music writer/performers in 2000 — writing songs for artists like Mya and Christina Aguilera — Thicke finally released his own solo album in 2002, and quickly became a mainstay on my Discman.

Read on after the jump for more rationalization of why Eliot loves bad music and whether or not Thicke’s also a mainstay in Eliot’s masturbatory thoughts…

Travel budgets at major music publications must be hurting today after four major festivals went down at locations across the globe this weekend. Pearl Jam brought the house down at Lollapalooza. The Allman Brothers, Assembly of Dust and John Butler Trio added a hippie-rock tinge to the Newport Folk Festival. The Smashing Pumpkins stole the show at the Virgin Festival down in Balt’more, and the Fuji Rock Festival went off without a hitch over in Japan.

But the festivals were the only thing goin’ down in the rock world. Check out these links to see what else was happening this weekend:

• Papa’s got a brand new kid (or two): DNA tests show that James Brown fathered two more children back in the day
• Crowded House’s Neil Finn talks about getting the band back together
• There’s a new Live Phish release: Say hello to 10/21/95
• The moe.down schedule has been released
• Mike Greenhaus catches up with Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein about where the band goes next
• John Fogerty will be releasing a new album in October
• Some Velvet Blog pays homage to Little Feat
• The phrase “live album” has taken on a whole new meaning this summer
• Gospel stars Robert Randolph and Ryan Shaw faced resistance from their churches when they started playing secular music
• Legendary bluesman John Hammond Jr. loves Jersey City
• The Police will be all over the TV and radio this month
• Here’s a novel concept: Sellaband.com and slicethepie.com allow fans to help support their favorite artists

And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full slate of setlists from the weekend, including but not limited to the Allmans, the Crowes, the Rush, the Party, the House, the Giants, the Joel, the Green and many many more…