John Carpenter‘s drummer extraordinaire Joe Albanese happens to be a Youtube connoisseur and general master of music entertainment. He can engage a group of people for days on Facebook in a race to name bands with the word “black” in the their names. Today he sent over a link to the video seen above, “Old [...]

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For his first set, Cale and ensemble performed Paris 1919 with sensitivity and authority for the near capacity Royce Hall crowd. The 1973 album was recorded with members of UCLA Symphony Orchestra, albeit an older generation of musicians, so Cale’s return to the campus for this one-off performance seemed very appropriate and genuine.

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JOHN CALE + BEN GIBBARD + MARK LANEGAN AT UCLA’S ROYCE HALL ON THURS, SEPT. 30. 8PM / ALL AGES / $38-68. HTTP://WWW.UCLALIVE.ORG/.

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John Cale beat Jason Voorhees to both hockey masks and striking terror into the heart of American suburbia. He recently performed his classic Paris 1919 at UCLA’s Royce Hall without the old headgear but with all the old energy. He speaks now from his manager’s office near the Blue Line downtown. This interview by Kevin Ferguson.

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Happy Mondays were the actual 24 hour party people and legendarily—but perhaps not really, says drummer Gaz here—helped bankrupt Factory Records. They have been banned from Disneyland and the BBC and speak now despite mea culpas about being boring. This interview by Dan Collins.

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Though Sweden’s economy is in as much trouble as ours, TSOOL wasn’t bashful about releasing their latest effort Communion—a discussion of the corporate mass psychosis that has slowly taken over the world—as an epic 90-minute double-CD. Ebbot, Ian and Mattias chat with Linda Rapka about their album.

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The Warlocks have been panned for both self-similarity and for trying different sounds, for taking drugs and not taking drugs, for their chaos and careerism. At this point in their career, if they made a fantastic album, would anyone stop coming up with memes long enough to notice?

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