LOS ANGELESLIVE: FOXY SHAZAM @ THE TROUBADOROne of the most-promising new throwback bands of the decade hits LA's The Troubador for a rousing night of stage diving and eating cigarettes.
GEORGELIVE: SASQUATCH! 2010An unforgettable three days of music at the Gorge Amphitheatre, including MGMT, Vampire Weekend, The National, LCD Soundsystem and a grumpy Stephen Malkmus.
LOS ANGELESLIVE: GOGOL BORDELLO @ THE MAJESTIC THEATREThe world's most successful Gypsy Punk band wowed LA with new material and a few old favourites.
BOSTONLIVE: VIVIAN GIRLS @ THE MIDDLE EASTVivian Girls set the crowd swirling in a cacophonic shoegaze haze.
NEW YORKLIVE: THE WELCOME WAGON @ SPACE 38-39The Sufjan Stevens-endorsed folk-gospel duo play their NYC show as if it were happening in the middle of their own living room.
BOSTONLIVE: COLD WAR KIDS @ THE WILBUR THEATRESober fans had nothing to get drunk on but moody lighting and falsetto favorites as the Californian indie rockers played Boston's historic (but dry) Wilbur Theatre.
LOS ANGELESLIVE: BISHOP ALLEN @ THE TROUBADOURThe indie popsters were too smart for the room at their recent show in Los Angeles.
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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.
