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Fifteen years ago, Brian Connolly , original lead singer of famed UK glam band The Sweet , was found dead of kidney and liver failure at the age of 47. Between 1971 and 1978, The Sweet sold in excess of 50 million records. That's a lot of vinyl, my friends. To most US fans, ' Desolation Boulevard ' remains the most glorious collection of tunes ranging from hard rock (Sweet FA) to glam rock (Fox on the Run). Wikipedia notes: "In 1974 Connolly was badly beaten up after leaving a nightclub in... Read Full Story

Veteran Omaha, NE crunch noisers Cursive have a new LP coming out, called " I Am Gemini ". You can buy it now online. Physical version comes out end February. Cursive's tour dates start this weekend, and the band comes to Phoenix later in the month. You can download two MP3s from the LP which the band call 'probably the most poppy/catchiest on the record' at Saddle Creek Store . Tour dates below. The blurbists write: "I Am Gemini is the surreal and powerful musical tale of Cassius and Pollock... Read Full Story

There is a place in your life for rock 'n roll. Where you choose to put it and how much time you devote to it is entirely up to you. That being said, here are a few stories from around the Internet-O-Meter of Goodness. - Creative recording magazine site TapeOp has a great interview in this month's mag with Steve Albini , the '80s punk rocker w/Big Black and Naked Raygun and current well-known record producer at his own Chicago-based recording studio Electrical Audio . In it, Steve shares his... Read Full Story

Author turned punker Bob Mould has pulled in an awesome rhythm section to play his band SUGAR's classic 1992 release "Copper Blue". In honor of the 20-year anniversary of Sugar's COPPER BLUE, Bob along with his band, Jon Wurster (Superchunk, The Mountain Goats), and Jason Narducy (Robert Pollard, Verbow) will be performing the album in its entirety for the first time ever at San Francisco's beloved small rock club, Bottom of the Hill, on Friday, February 24th as part of the 20th Noise Pop... Read Full Story

From a fan-driven art contest, the vet alt-folk-rock band The Counting Crows got their next LP cover. The LP is full of covers of favorite songs by the bandmembers. See full list below. Counting Crwos will play covers of songs by Teenage Fanclub (yay! Great choice!), Big Star, Pure Prairie League (Amy? oh no)and others. CC singer Adam Duritz wrote to fans in an email: "The album art contest was a huge success for Creative Allies with more than a thousand entries, the most they've ever... Read Full Story

'80s music nostalgia is in the air! Never Gonna Give You Up! Red Red Wine! Back to Life, Back to Reality, and I'm Too Sexy! It's a Glastonbury for the middle-classed, 2 kids-and-a-flat set that bit their lips quaveringly in the 1980s while dancing at the local discotheque. The Rewind Festival m, now in its fourth year, will be held in two locations this coming summer - in Perthshire, Scotland on July 21-22 and in Thames on Henley, England on August 18-19. And the NEW news is that the Rewind... Read Full Story

I'm digging this revved-up Stooges-like-intensity rock 'n roll song called "Hit 'n Miss" from the band Capsula , a trio of long hairs from south of the border, like South America south! From the blurbsters: "Capsula's Martin Guevara (vocals/guitar) and Coni Duchess (vocals/bass), along with Capsula drummer, Nacho, collectively create the musical storm, a whirlwind of psychedelic wonder and punk rock fury. Their music roars with a combination of garage rock toughness and modern style that have... Read Full Story

Nashville smokin' classic rock revivalists band Natural Child is heading out with Oakland's Hunx and His Punx for an April tour, with a stop at Tempe's Yucca Tap room on (yep, you guessed it) 4/20. Weed, dude. Natural Child's bio is a pot-brownie-filled hoot...To wit: summer 2009 wez ate brownies had a vision. He told big black zack and called seth 3 times. They started the nashville-based three piece rock band called Natural Child. Maybe known as much for their incessant rambling on-stage... Read Full Story

1970s British popster Gary Glitter 's glam rock anthem 'Rock n Roll Pt. 2' which in the past years was heard at certain sporting events, has been banned by the NFL. Spinner writes : "NFL bosses have banned Gary Glitter songs from being playing at this Sunday's Super Bowl. The pedophile pop star created a stir when fans believed he stood to rake in thousands of dollars if his 1972 anthem 'Rock and Roll Part 2' was blasted at Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium. "No version of that song ['Rock and... Read Full Story

Indie soul-ska-punkers Fishbone have their own documentary! It's called ' Everyday Sunshine 'and it's playing at a bunch of independent showings. Check the documentary screening dates page for info and dates. "Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From the streets of South Central-Los Angeles and the competitive Hollywood music scene of the 1980's, the band rose to prominence... Read Full Story