Pop Matters — Neil Young's final triumph? Rocking hard enough and with high enough drama to make one of the premier live bands of the decade sound like a lightweight opening act. more info

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Aquarium Drunkard — Sugar Mountain, the third live release in anticipation of Neil Young’s forthcoming Blu-Ray/DVD archives project, finds the bard at the University of Michigan, aged 23, soon after Buffalo Springfield’s inevitable split. One of Young’s earliest... more info

JamBase — Words & Images by: Andrew Quist The Mother Hips :: 12.19.08 & 12.20.08 :: Great American Music Hall :: San Francisco, CA The Mother Hips :: 12.20 :: San Francisco The Mother Hips have been around for about sixteen years. No one lasts that long ... more info

JamBase — BONNAROO TO INTRODUCE BONNAROO 365 ON JANUARY 11, 2009 STREAM FULL SETS ON BONNAROO.COM / PROGRAM TO DEBUT WITH FULL RACONTEURS PERFORMANCE The Raconteurs :: Bonnaroo 08 by Snyder Bonnaroo has announced BONNAROO 365, a program by which fans can... more info

JamBase — MARCO BENEVENTO Announces February Residency at Yoshi's Oakland Plus Additional West Coast Tour Dates Special guests including Scott Amendola, Andrew Barr, Billy Martin Reed Mathis, Jeff Parker, Joe Russo, Skerik and more Marco Benevento by Greg... more info

Pitchfork — Human Highway, the latest in a string of one billion Islands-related projects, will be going on a road trip this March, playing a bunch of dates with former Page France frontman and Suicide Squeeze labelmate Cotton Jones. HH is a collaboration betwee... more info

JamBase — ANDREW BIRD: NOBLE BEAST NPR EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN STREAMING NOW / LIVE CHAT SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY Andrew Bird Andrew Bird's Noble Beast can be heard in advance of its January 20 release date thanks to NPR's Exclusive First Listen series. Join... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Repost: Crosby’s 1970 outtakes (aka, Perro tapes) One of my favorite LP’s from the early ’70s is David Crosby’s underrated masterpiece “If I Could Only Remember My Name?” A fully realized embodiment of the sound of California’s folk/roc... more info

XLR8R — Boozoo Bajou starts off the new year armed with a brand-new album, set for release in early spring. This is the first proper full-length from the Nuremberg, Germany-based duo since 2005's Dust My Broom, and the new offering is said to be inspire... more info