White Light White Heat!

Man oh man. I can't wait for this box set. Universal is releasing a mega deluxe White Light/White Heat. Check out all the fixins at my favorite website Dangerous Minds. Loaded with unreleased recordings, book, mono and stereo version. I'm drooooooooling...

Spaced Out Saturday...

...come with us now on a journey through time and space...

What's the time? I feel old. License to Ill is 27 today.

"Around the time he was producing License to Ill, Rick Rubin was reading the Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, in which touring decadence aboard Zep's private jet features prominently. License to Ill art director Stephen Byram remembers hashing out a design idea with Rubin during a Los Angeles to New York flight. 'I wanted to embrace and somehow distinguish in a sarcastic way, the larger than life rock n' roll lifestyle', Byram said in Richard Evans' book The Artist of the Album Cover. Byram reached out to illustrator David Gambale, aka World B. Omes, who rendered an image of a Boeing 727. On the front of the Beasties' 1986 debut, the plane's tail displays a Harley Davidson influenced band logo and reverse code for a certain lewd suggestion. The fact the rap trio's plane has crashed is only visible on the back."
Original article here: BEASTIES

It's Ben Ellis' Birthday!

Happy Birthday Ben Ellis. This song is awesome.

Happy Birthday Neil!

Happy Birthday Neil Young! I remember hearing After The Gold Rush for the first time and being so floored... Songs so good can be both inspiring and defeating! I hope you are enjoying a slice of cake today, Neil Young.

Check out this killer live set at the BBC from '71:

Tis' The Season!

What better way to ring in the holiday season than with some nog, time with friends and fam - and this amazing Motörhead sweater??

Happy National Gram Parsons Day!

To celebrate the birth of late roots rock icon - without whom "Alt Country" and a big chunk of my record collection wouldn't exist - Gram Parsons, I wanted to share this rad audio of Gram's first performance with The Byrds... if only there was film to go along with it!! Happy National Gram Parsons Day! May this kick off a day of killer americana on your ipods!