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A rock and roll divorce story, from the front man of Galaxy 500 and Luna. There but for the grace of FSM go I. Can’t say I blame him if you’ve seen the bassist.

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A fantastic interview with Miki Berenyi, lead singer of Lush on life after Indie stardom and the nine to five. My Gen-X nostalgia continues unabated.

A really late obit on my part. Martin was the drummer for The WonderStuff, one of my favorite bands from the heady 90s. Sad, if very late, news.

I didn’t even recognize how amazing his voice was until I received the Live Aid box set as a gift a couple of years ago.

Spot on on the conditions. But my reaction was the complete opposite.

Who would have thought such a political band like RATM would have such douche bag fans? A former great band like CH did not deserve that treatment.

Child prodigy Joshua Bell plays the D.C. Metro on a nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius; pockets ~$32 in change. Fascinating piece about the prosaicness of daily life encroaching on our abilities to experience the sublime

Disturbingly sad music moment #1099: hearing _The The’s_ “This is the Day”:http://www.last.fm/music/The+The/_/This+Is+the+Day used in an M&M commercial.

Ralph’s World at the Filmore
You know you are getting old when your first show in years at the Filmore in San Francisco happens to be a children’s concert and you end up having an even better time than your kid. We saw Ralph Covert (of “Ralph’s World”:http://www.ralphsworld.com and the Chicago Band the Bad Examples) play [...]

I’m more of the indie power pop variety, but this will do.

“Cat Stevens’ MySpace Page”:http://www.myspace.com/yusufislam. Despite the unpleasantness and other controversy associated with his conversion to Islam, I will forever see him as the folk singer who wrote the poignant _Father and Son_, which to this day makes me misty-eyed everytime I hear it. [via internal mefi]

Awesome English MP3 blog.

Cartel driven crap music avoidance detection system.

Raining Jane

Gettin’ Freaky in Mountain View

I hope he means just getting ice cream, ‘cuz last time I looked, she was only sixteen.

The greatest Finnish video ever produced.

Journey’s Escape still rocks 25 years later.:
The album begins with “Don’t Stop Believin,’ ” a song that just may have magical properties within its opening piano signature. Seriously, lock yourself in a room right now and listen to that keyboard part 35 times in a row. Sick of it yet? If you said yes, then [...]