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This week’s comments roundup is coming a little late because I’m in LA for Darker Waves (happening in Huntington Beach tomorrow) and was not prepared to spend 600 hours in traffic this afternoon. I don’t know how you people live here.  » Read More

George “Funky” Brown, founding drummer of the great funk and R&B band Kool & The Gang, has died. The Guardian reports that Brown died of lung cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Brown was 74.  » Read More

Priiiiiest! Veteran metal overlords Judas Priest are coming back next year with Invincible Shield, their 19th studio album and their first since joining the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. We’ve already posted first single “Panic Attack,” and now they’ve dropped a new one called “Trial By Fire.”  » Read More

Pale Blue Eyes hotly anticipated UK tour in support of second album “This House” continues with a sold out show at Nottingham’s Bodega.  » Read More

Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 9 this week.  » Read More

Car Colors is the new project from Charles Bissell, formerly of The Wrens. This week he shared its first single “Old Death,” along with two B-sides, “And It’s All Guns and Arrows (alt. take)” and “I’ll Bear.”  » Read More

Brown co-wrote hits including “Ladies Night,” “Celebration,” and “Cherish”  » Read More

During a New York concert, Dylan, who has a history of jocular onstage banter, said it’s not “right” that Wenner “got booted out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame”  » Read More

Beth Ditto and the band worked with Rick Rubin on Real Power  » Read More