Paul Westerberg

The Faces reunion is out, The Velvets, Big Star and The Beatles reunions are kind of on, Tom Waits is all over the place, Neil Young is compiling for the Bridge School, Massive Attack make a new album, Lady Gaga is old news to the Grammys, and a look at the good and the bad associated with live albums. Read More

Several people suggested I read Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby. Read More

Leavin' you to pages and pages of Gmail submissions from artists, friends, A/R people, DJs, and anyone else who is desperate enough to get heard that they're willing to give our lil' ole blog a shot left you with quite a chore. Read More

Band dynamics are often as interesting as the music the band actually makes. Read More

That's right, I'd set up a phoner with him through his publicist and I was supposed to call. Read More

Island Def Jam Music Group has partnered with TuneCore to launch IDJ First Look [http://www.idjfirstlook.com/] today, a new web portal that provides unsigned artists with potential access to such coveted major label services as worldwide distribution and marketing. Read More

By my third day I had already seen so many bands that it took a lot of discipline to keep myself on track at times. Read More

As I mentioned briefly in this week's Inventory , I first heard WFMU disc jockey Tom Scharpling refer to Creedence Clearwater Revival as "America's Beatles" on his show about five years ago—a claim that later turned up in the hilarious Scharpling & Wurster bit "Gas Station Dogs." In a lot of important ways, CCR really was America's Beatles. Read More

I'm not sure I'm the kind of person fans obsess about, not really. Read More

New music from Paul Westerberg and Portishead, Dan Deacon learns about public relations, the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are in, Warner Brothers allow their legal department to relax, Thom Yorke thinks about getting super, and a long history of the super group. Read More