Crazy rumor floating around right now according to AtEaseWeb:

…we’d love to believe these rumours: Radiohead will be playing with the USC Marching Band. We’ve no confirmation on this yet, so we’ll just have to wait a couple of days to see it’s really going to happen. (src)

Bring it. I am excited and will actually watch the Grammys this year, but this all dredges up a sore, older-than-it-should-be topic: Why cannot I spell it Grammies and, further, why do both screwy words remind me of the mothers of my parents more than anything else? (luv you g-ma!) (luv you granny!)

» Grammy Rumours: 15 Step + USC Marching Band? (AtEaseWeb) (via NME)

Radiohead @ Santa Barbara Bowl by Sung

Way up at the Bowl in Hollywoodland, two back-to-back nights (August 15-16) remain suspiciously on TBA status at press time. Might the consecutive dates be reserved for Radiohead? We know they’re coming to town. We turn now to you, valued reader, for rampant speculation on the topic at hand:

[ VOTE AGAIN ]

UPDATE. 6pm: Since they’re scheduled to appear in Canada on the 15th of August, I’m going to go ahead and say “knives out” to that Radiohead rumor. Let the voting continue.

Following our post Thursday afternoon (thanks for the tip DJ Budgie), ‘Crowes and Coachella message boards have lit up like so many blue-tinselled Spacelandian curtains as to which damn band will be gracing the establishment’s venerable, albeit quaint, stage come March 18.

The question is now begged.
»continue reading “Wyld Stallyons” @ Spaceland, March 18: The Speculation Grows

The Black Crowes are all over the news these days, thanks to Maxim’s botched fauxreview of their new album Warpaint (refer to results 1 – 10 of about 135,000 for maxim black crowes). Unfortunately for the Crowes, said coverage comes in lieu of any legitimate review of the new album itself. Still, no press is bad press. And while we’re on the topic of screwy reviews by paper-dependent publications, why is it that Rolling Stone claims this review of the same album, which I am reading right now on February 28, will have been “Posted: March 6, 2008″ ?!

»continue reading Today In Rumors: Black Crowes Definitely Not Playing Spaceland March 18; “Wyld Stallyons” To Play