The Big Bopper, Jr. hired a forensic anthropologist to investigate the day the music (and his daddy) died. Question Mark (of ? & The Mysterians) lost his home, possessions and 4 of his 7 Yorkies in a tragic house fire. Especially shitty is he lost his gold record for "96 Tears" in the blaze. America (the band, not the falling empire) released a new album & played Letterman with Ryan Adams on lead guitar, while The Arcade Fire played their old high school cafeteria on Saturday night.
Rolling Stone profiled a real rock & roll band we haven't heard of yet, The Beatles are going to iTunes, and the RIAA sent in a SWAT team to crack down on mixtape DJ 'piracy,'
On the blogs, My Old Kentucky Home has a download of Samuel L. doing "Stack 'O Lee" from his new movie Black Snake Moan, where he plays on RL-looking ex-bluesman who chains up Christina Ricci to cure her of nymphomania. In the land of 7" audio rips, 7inchPunk has the 1st Stiff Little Fingers single up for grabs, and I Am Fuel You Are Friends has the A-side from M. Ward/Jim James single "Magic Trick" (if you're into that kinda shit). Aquarium Drunkard has a live radio broadcast of The Meters from 1977, while plenty of older-school MP3s abound at Driftwood Singers, including Emmylou's take on "Pancho & Lefty" & William Burroughs' original of "What Keeps Mankind Alive?".
In Neil Young news, Reprise announced they're putting out the next volume of Neil's Archive Series on March 13. The recording, "Live at Massey Hall," captures a solo/acoustic set from Jan., 1971 in Toronto. According to Neil, "this is the album that should have come out between After The Gold Rush and Harvest," and was getting a lot of push his near-permanent producer David Briggs. Neil dug the recordings from Harvest so that's what they went with, but if Briggs was such a fan of releasing this back in the real-time context of 1971, then we're convinced this has to be quite a fucking show.
Reprise also confirmed a fall 2007 release of the long-long-long-rumored Archives Volume I box set, with 8 CDs and 2 DVDs packed with 38 unreleased songs (some studio, some live) plus more, all between 1964-1971. Now that's a lot of music for not too many years, which suggests many future outpouring of the Archvies, but even more badass is what might exist in those early-early years. Particularly I'm talking about Neil's pre-Buffalo Springfield band, The Mynah Birds, the one fronted by Rick James that never released any material, but who apparently recorded 16 tracks for Motown before being dropped...
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