July 15, 2008

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

Last week’s She Said She Said voting reassures something I’ve always known to be true – Gov’t Mule destroys covers. So Mule takes home their first CW trophy and one note about last week: Audio has since surfaced of Mike Gordon’s band performing the song (previously we only had a YouTube) and has been added to the playlist.

Moving on to the new stuff…known for its sexual innuendos and bangin’ horn lines, Sledgehammer is Peter Gabriel’s only #1 hit to date here in the USA. This song comes to us off the 1986 release So.

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READ ON after the jump to see some video of our seven contenders this week and to place your vote for the most deserving band of this Cover Wars title…

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

IFC’s Dinner for Five was one of the better shows about Da Bidness in the early ’00s. Centered on the simple concept of five indie film artists (and, sometimes, old movie vets) sitting around a restaurant table, eating dinner, sipping cocktails and talking shop, the show excelled at heady information, frank dialogue, huge cigars and lots of fancy grub. All of it was caretakered by the charismatic but unobtrusive presence of Jon Favreau.

Well, Favreau can’t exactly call himself an indie outsider anymore after the summer success of Iron Man. Coming on the heels of his holiday blockbuster, Elf, a few years back, it looks like the actor/writer/director/cable T.V. dinner host has a franchise product for the ages. And that’s such a refreshing thing to say about someone like Favreau who wrote and/or directed small gems like Made, and Swingers, before conquering the industry in his own inimitable fashion. Let’s hope he doesn’t become like Sam “Evil Dead” Raimi or Christopher “Memento” Nolan who are still doing excellent work with their respective Spider-Man and Batman franchises, but seem to have lost some of that original storytelling flair that paved the way for those epic cash cow adventures. These films are, after all, based upon pretty fucking…ahem…ironclad and ancient comics that were spun from the colorful pens of their Geek Elders many moons ago. READ ON for more…