AUSTINVIDEO: AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - SUMMER OF ALL DEAD SOULSThose Trail of Dead boys sure do like to get dressed up all old-timey.
MINNEAPOLISVIDEO: ATMOSPHERE - SHE'S ENOUGHThe most adorable thing featuring both Slug of Atmosphere and Brother Ali that has ever - and probably will ever - exist.
PORTLANDVIDEO: FORBIDDEN FRIENDS - TINY HANDSThe Thermals' Hutch Harris' first single from his solo project reminds us of a radical leftist version of the dude from Blue's Clues, minus Blue.
CHICAGOVIDEO: L'ALTRA - NOTHING CAN TEAR IT APARTToday's video features footage from a 1963 Godard film, so the nudity is artful. This may be a first for SoundProof.
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.
